The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-17
Mrs. StoII Was Victim of
Substitution in Crime,
Letter Reveals.
By Times Staff Correspondent

By Times Staff Correspondent
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 17.-Bitter de-
, nunciation of capitalists and a
threat to kill the victim. burn the
body and dissolve the ashes in wa
Ter unless demands were met, were
contained in the ransom note left
by the kidnaper of Mrs. Berry "
Stoll, it was revealed today.
The letter said in part:
Printed in ink were the words
Intended for c. c. Stoll at first and
Mr.. Speed"
The following matter was typed:
TO the members of the Stoll fam
lily:
Warning: Stoll has been kid
mapped for ransom. Overcome your
first natural impulse to call in the
police. Otherwise, you will regret
it.
The life of Stoll, and later on the
lives of his sons and their families,
depend on the Stoll family reading
this letter thoroughly and obeying
our instructions from the beginning
and for all time thereafter.
We Want the Money
Read this letter and you will real
ize, and We mean business. We
want the money, not the life of
Stoll. But if you let the police know
the details of this letter, or where
payment of the ransom money is
to be made, or if there is any evil
6ence that you mean to double cross
us by sending a dummy" package.
watching the intermediary named
in this letter or otherwise try to set
a trap for us, We are prepared to
Go this:
Kill Stoll and burn his body;
scatter his ashes in a stream of wa
ter; clean the galvanized tank in
such a manner as to defy micro
scopic examination of it.
There will be no ashes left to
analize. This will keep the law
from finding the corpus delecti, or
the body of Stoll. -sA
This is no idle threat. We are
fully aware that kidnapping is pun
ishable by death in Kentucky, and
we would be subject to the death
penalty under the federal law, or
Lindbergh law, if we were forced by
the publicity to take Stoll or his
body over a state line.
Act of Patriotism
However, the capitalists with
their power got this law passed, as
it could not be wrong to rid this
country of the capitalists, or make
him share his fortune with less for
tunate brothers. 1t would be an act
Of patriotism to kill this capitalist,
Stoll, who was overheard to say,
concerning Roosevelt and the NRA.
Mr.. So and So, we are in the hands
of a dictator. We capitalists do not
know what to look forward to; we
are conserving our money; why I
would not spend one dime to even
paint up my filling stations.
mo he wouldn't, but he will
spend plenty to get returned to his
family alive. He is really in the
hands of a dictator. 1t is this octo-
puS, the capitalist. who is menacing
the very foundations of our country.
1t is a serious mistake for right
thinking men to declare it an Of
tense to kill or kidnap for ransom.
a capitalist.
However, we can not aggravate
our offense any by killing Stou, if
we have to- He is the main witness
against us, and his body could not
be produced, so the law could not
prove We killed him.
Other Cases Cited
I'VE are taking Stoll to our farm.
We have already been told that we
would be dispoSSessed within ten
days for not paying rent. Our
money is low. We are not able to
feed ourselves for long, much less
Stoll. We are Just about as desper-
ate as once-reSpected working men
can get, harraSSed as we are by
capitalists such as Stoll, Mellon,
Morgan, insult. etc.
From these conditions there is
no time for a bunch Of negotiations
between us, other than those in this
letter No bargaining.
In the kidnapping baby Lind
bergh, William Hamm Jr., Jake
Factor, Charles FurSchel, Nell Don