The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-19
BRONX YOUTH HELD
FOR RANSOM FREED
BY GANG THURSDAY
Philadelphia Police on Lookout
for Speeding Sedan Be-
Iieved Robinson's
WIFE TO FIGHT CHARGES
Attorneys Declare Father Of
Former Asylum Inmate
Is Innocent
(By The Associated Press


One Jump ahead OF the law, the man
hunted as the kidnaper of Mrs. Alice
Speed Stoll left along his trail Fri
day evidences OF fear that his luck
cannot hold out-that his capture is
inevitable.
While department of justice agents
pursued the trail of Thomas Robin
son, Jr., to Springfield, O.. other fed
eral sleuths took up the hunt for the
abductors of Lewis opposite, 23-year-
old son of a wealthy Bronx junk deal
err who returned home late Thursday
night, more than three days after he
had been reported kidnapped for 500
600 ransom. No ransom money was
paid for his release.
Our work is just beginning" fed
eral agent engaged in the opposite
case said.
Chase Speedy Sedan
Police of Philadelphia and towns
adjoining on the west and south join
ed Friday in a lookout for sedan
which may contain Robinson, Jr.
The car pursued north from Wilm-
ington, Della, and carried three men.
One of the two Delaware state police
men who chased it said one of the trio
strongly resembled Robinson, whose
photographs he has studied.
The troopers reported the sedan
roared away and outdistanced them
after they attempted to question the
driver for operating with one head
light.
A Marcus Hook policeman who had
been warned of the cars approach to
that town tried to stop it and was
nearly run down. The pursuit was
continued through Delaware river
towns north to Darby, a Philadelphia
suburb. where the trail was lost.
At Hart, Mich, and Nashville.
Tenn, also police kept an eye peeled
for the elusive fugitive as bills bear
ing serial numbers listed in the ram
som money were reported found.
Purvis On Trail
With reports rife that Robinson,
Jr, has been seen at Dayton, O., and
numerous other points, Melvin Purvis.
department of justice ace and nemesis
of the notorious John Dillinger, sped
out Of Springfield, O., after hurried
visit Thursday night, but kept his
own counsel. Three other tnvestiga-
tors, collaborating with Purvis, left
also, ostensibly for Cincinnati
Robinson left in the hands Of his
pursuers an automobile bearing license
plates originally issued to his wife:
his Overcoat, suitcase and three
federal reserve notes, identified by
their serial numbers as part of the
$4,000 ransom money paid by Berry
v. Stoll for the release Of his wife.
The fugitive's wife and father, Mrs.
Frances AlthauSer Robinson and
Thomas H. Robinson, ST., were accused
of taking part in the abduction-the
woman held at Louisville in default
Of $4,000 bond; the man released at
Nashville under $4,000 bond.
Peace officers evidently were salts
fled that the younger Robinson stop
ped in Springfield Tuesday only long
enough to shave at rooming house.
To the proprietor he was agreeable,
sauve, unhurried. So pleasant was
he that Mrs Edna DearWester gave
not a thought to his visit until she
saw his pictures in newspaper. Then
she was so upset that authorities
found difficulty in obtaining coher.-
ent story from her.
Spends Ransom Money
The luck that has attended Robin
son since Mrs. Stoll's release Tuesday
rode with him in his flight to Spring.
field. He parked his car in the ROOM
ing house garage, spent the three fed
eral reserve ENTHUSIASTICALLY re-
tired from building and loan assoc
iation and banks-and made his get
away without arousing suspicion.
At Nashville, Tenn, where the fug-
itives wife received the ransom money,
the 61-year-old father was arrested
on a removal warrant and released
under bond pending hearing on his
removal to Louisville week from
Friday.
Stubborn resistance to the project
ed removal to Louisville, where war
rant charging him with kidnapping
would be served, was planned by the
elder Robinson and his attorney.
The attorney. Monte S. Ross, ex-
pressed his belief that the senior
Robinson lis absolutely innocent"
Mrs. Robinson maintained that she.
too, had been Of service in effecting
the release of Mrs. Stoll, but U. s.
District Attorney Thomas J. Sparks.
assembling evidence for a special
grand jury to be empaneled Saturday,
predicted indictments would be re-
turned quickly.