Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1947 — Page 13

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From Tourist Camp

Victim Tells How She Got Loose

From Bonds in Cabin Bed: .!

’ LODI, Cal, Jan, 22 (U.P. ys Alice Devine, 1Tyearold : high school beauty, was safe at home today becatise she

outwitted her kidnaper in a Sacramento tourist cabin.

The girl escaped when the kidnaper left to arrange the final details for collecting $10,000 ransom from her wealthy

father.

Police flashed an all-points | alarm for the arrest of the well-dressed, middle-aged ab- - , ductor, identified as William Giles or EE. W. Stiles. The man fled without keeping a rendezvous in a tavern where he was to receive the ransom. money.

The tavern was ‘filled with detec-

tives,

‘Miss Devine's

set a trap for the brazen Giles. Miss Devine was in seclusion today after a reunion with her famfly. Police reported that she was unharmed except for burns on her wrists suffered in wriggling loose from the ropes that bound her to a bed in the tourist camp. Police said her quick wit was responsible for her escape. Capt. Floyd Yoder of the California highway. patrol said she was “one of the most amazing, resilient and cool girls I've ever seen.” This is the story Miss Devine told police, according to ‘Capt. Yoder:

Picked Victim Carefully

Her abuctor,

who introduced

himself in Lodi as Wililam (Bill Gilles, worked for a week selecting a victim from a wealthy and socially prominent family. He showed a business card which

sald he was connected with the

Ad club, 23 Clark drive, New York City. ‘There is no such address. He talked to school officials and other townspeople, saying he was preparihg an article for the American Weekly, a Sunday newspaper supple-

~ ‘ment, on outstanding students,

teachers and parents. He turned down one girl because her parents were not wealthy. Saturday he went to the home of | Mr. and Mrs. John Edwards Devine and talked to the girl's mother. He said he wanted a picture of Alice to match with that of a. blond boy

- selected from an eastern state.

Mrs. Devine was not enthusiastic, but when he returned Monday she let her daughter accompany him to a commercial photographer's studio. Giles had a taxi-cab waiting. Mrs. Devine said: “Alice nas a car, why not use it?” He replied: “No, I have a taxi.” When they left the studio Giles suggested that he take Alice home in his own car which was parked

nearby.

he was really a pretty nice man,”

Capt. Yoder said. along, he told her he knew a Chi-

“As they drove

nese portrait painter to whom he wanted to take her so he could ‘get tional Kiwanis president, spoke on her coloring right now.’ ” ‘Very Convincing,’ She Says Although it was dark, the girl at noon in the Hotel Antlers. Mr.

consented to visit the artist.

Ty Ex Fascists 2 For 1924 Murder

Matteotti Slaying ROME, Jan. 22 (U. P.) ~Four for-

Mussolini in his prime.

hear testimony that would strip away the vell of time and disclose what part—if any—Il Duce played in the removal of his sharpest crie tic in 1924. Matteotti disappeared on the day he was scheduled to expose the financial frauds of Mussolini's party, : The mystery of his death was never solved, Matteotti’s body was found several days after his disappearance in a shallow grave on a bank of the Tiber river, Defendants in the case are: Amerigo Dumini, a native of St. Louis, Mo., who became vice commander of the Italian secret police.

dent of the Fascist chamber who was made governor of Italian- -occupled Dalmatia. Osvaldo Poveromo, member of the secret police, ~ Cesare Rossi, former secretary of the Fascist party. Public Prosecutor Giovanni Spagnuolo demanded life imprisonment for all four men. Seventy-two men originally were accused of the crime, but only four were brought to trial.

More Singers Needed

‘For All-Negro Choir

A call went out today for additional singers to take part in the all-Néegro choir which will entertain in Cadle “Tabernacle Saturday at 8:15p. m. Final rehearsal will be held at Cadle at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow and singers wishing to take part have been asked to report at that time. Norma Merrifield, music director of Crispus Attucks high school and director of the chorus, said 300 singers have been recruited. Proceeds of Saturday night's

entertainment will go to the Ine

|fantile Paralysis fund. ° “She said by this time she thought !

Former World Leader

Of Kiwanis: to Speak

Carl Endicott, former Interna-

“Today's Challenge to Kiwanis” at the 32d anniversary luncheon today

Giles Endicott is the only native of-Indi-

pretended to become confused, and ana ever elected international

drove up .and down several streets,

she said.

I president.

Members of the local Kiwanis

“He was very convincing,” Miss {club are observing the interna-

“Devine told police.

He asked her to hand him a road! map from the back seat, then) stopped the car and got out to look |

at it under the headlights. He opened the rear door as though to replace the map. “Then he seized me from behind,” the girl said. “We struggled on the seat and then rolled out onto the ground and "he finally overpowered me. Then he got two pieces of clothesline out of the frunk, tied my feet and hands, gagged me and threw me

into the trunk.”

Rolled Out of Trunk

They drove for a half an hour and he left her in the automobile.’ Then he returned, rolled her out of the trunk and into the tourist

cabin.

The, gir] said he stretched her on the bed, bound one hand to each side of the bed, showed her a knife and a gun and threatened to use them if she misbehaved. d “Your folks have got plenty of money,” he told her. When she agreed to be quiet, he removed a gag. He sat on the edge of the bed throughout the night, | talking to her. He gave her a bottle of milk and a roll.

Victim Frees Herself “I stayed quiet,” the: girl told police, “hoping he would leave. Finally he did, sometime ‘about

noon.”

When he didn’t return, she struggled against the ropes and after freeing herself ran to the tourist camp office ‘and called her parents. She then walked out'to the high- |

way to hail a motorist, “The first car that came along

was a highway 'patrdl car,” Capt.

Yoder said.

Giles called Miss Devine's parents soon after the kidnaping. At 10 p.m. Monday, her father received a telephone call from Sacramento, which is 30 miles from Lodi, telling him to look for a note between the garage ~ and woodshed, $10,000 Ransom Demand The note demanded $10,000. for the girl's return and asked that the money be delivered to a Sacramento tavern. Mr, Devine was ready to pay it for his-daughter’s safe return. Police found Miss Devine at 4:30

p. m., but kept her escape a secret | for several hours while they set a er at “Riley's Buffet.”

, Miss Devine wate i pot ae |

tional’s 32d anniversary this- week.

outside, but her abductor did not appear. Neither did he return to the tcurist court where other policemen waited in the darkness. Mr, Devine, an official of the American Fruit Growers association, owns a number of vineyards and Is considered moderately well-off, _ The The family Is socially prominent.

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mer Fascists went on trial today for the 23-year-old murder of Giacomo Matteott!, an Italian Socialist. who dared to challenge Benito

Some 200 spectators filed: into

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