Nogales international., 1933-07-15

Wooster, pilot of the a1rplane, are
jointly charged with Sommers OF
attempted kidnapping of the Trip
pei boy on the afternoon of July
4th. Murreu has not yet been ap-
pretended. Wooster, arrested IN Los
Angeles, has been released on his
own recognizance.
Five Witnesses
Five witnesses-Mrs. Dorothy
Trippell, Tommy White, manager OF
the Nogales international Airport;
Sheriff Harold j. Brown, Henry Lee,
a brother-in-law of Mrs. Trippell;
and Miss Patsy Parsons were placed
on the stand at Sommers' prelim-
mary hearing by County Attorney
E. r. Thurman.
Evidence presented showed that
a man with scar on his face
believed to be Alfred Trippell,
father Of the boy) had paid Muir
rell to kidnap the child and that
had the youth not resisted the at
tempt to get him into the airplane
at the local airport on the after
noon of July 4th the kidnapping
plot would have been carried out.
Mrs. Trippell testified that Jack
is now staying at the Ounce Leath-
erman ranch. on the Tucson road
and that he attended the annual
rodeo at Circle z ranch on July
4th with Mr.. and Mrs. Leatherman.
From there he was taken by Muir
rell to the airport.
Meet At Cavern
Mrs. Trippeu said she first was
introduced to Murrell and Sommers
at the Cavern Cafe on the even
ing of Sunday July End. Murrell
and Sommers had arrived here from
Los Angeles in Sommers' car On
Saturday July 1. She was introduc-
ed to the two men by her brother
in-law, Mr.. Lee. Murrell was in
troduced as Irving Wharburton',
famous University of Southern Cali
fornia football star.
She said that on Monday July
3rd Murrell came to her office three
times, (she is deputy county asses
sor) and asked permission to teach
her son to play football. He also
took her little daughter to local
swimming pool
She testified that Sommers came
to the home of her mother, Mrs. q.
Titcomb, on Crawford street, on
the morning of July 4th with Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Lee and Mrs. How
ell. In the meantime Murren and
Sommers had rented a room at DR..
Anna Mae Smock's Casa Anna Ma
ria hotel, directly across the street
from where Mrs. Trippell resides,
the residence now known as Casa
Anna Maria having for many years,
until recently, been the Titcomb
home.
After lunch on July 4th Mrs.
Trippel went to the rodeo with
Scnmers, Mr.. and Mrs. Lee and
Mrs. Howell. Sommers had loaned
his own car to Murrell, whom it was
brought out, looked up young Trip
pell on the rodeo field and took
him to the airport.
White On Stand
Thomas White, manager Of the
airport, was the next witness called.
He said he saw Jack Trippen 100
yards from the airport walking to-
ward Circle z ranch and that he
was very excited. After calming
down, the child told White some
people were trying to take him back
to his father and that he wanted
to go back to his mother at Circle
z.
White testified that M. A. Woos-
ter, pilot of the plane, landed clone
at the airport on the morning of
July 4th in Waco bi-plane. Near
the airport, he said, was parked
SommCrs' car, a Ford coupe, III
which Murrell had conveyed the
Trippell boy from Circle z ranch.
! Henry Lee told of Murren and
Sommers driving up to his ranch,
far ont IN the mountains from Pa
raGcnia, on Sunday afternoon lily
/ End, and how the two men, him
self ND wife, cane to the Cavern
Cafe, Zee believing all the time
that Murrell was in reality Whar-