The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-17

kidnap victim, to her Louisville
home. Mr.. Purvis is in Indian
apohs directing search for the
kidnapers.
kidnaper first had planned to make
c. c. Stoll, the husbands million
aire father, his victim, but changed
at the last minute. He threatened
his victim with death if $4,000 was
not paid. He named Thomas H.
Robinson ST.. of Nashville, as inter-
mediary.
Federal agents checked up on the
senior Robinson and discovered he
had a son with a police record. Ne
gotiations proceeded through letters
in Mrs. Stoll's handwriting. The
kidnaper said the senior Robinson
was being watched by federal
agents; therefore, the ransom was
to be paid to Mrs. Robinson Jr. 1t
accordingly was paid and Mrs.
Robinson was trailed to Indianap-
oils where she appealed to Mr.. and
Mrs. Clegg to help in effecting Mrs.
Stoll's return. Last ni~:lt, the re-
turn was arranged and the party
set out for Louisville to be inter-
copied by federal agents enroute.
Await Mrs. StOlPs Story
Mrs. Clegg is a cousin of Mrs.
Stoll's husband. Federal agents
praised their part in solving the
crime.
Mrs. Stoll was rushed exhausted
and i'll to her luxurious home in an
exclusive local suburb and put to
bed. She had not told her story in
detail.
Physicians said the frail, 28-year-
old victim of the crime which
struck at two of the south's most
eminent families was in fairly
good condition" Despite the savage
beating inflicted upon her when she
was kidnapped last Wednesday, Mrs.
Stoll said before being put to bed
that they treated me fine"
Harold L. Nathan, head of fed
eral agents here, questioned her
only briefly before turning every
resource to pursuit Of Robinson.
Seek Robinson Here
His agents raided the apartment
in Indianapolis in which Mrs. Stoll
was imprisoned for most Of the six
days she was missing. Mr.. Nathan
refused to disclose what was found.
Police radios in a score Of cities
from Nashville to Chicago broadcast
orders to pick up a Ford Va sedan
or coach with Illinois license 331-700
presumably driven by the fugitive
Mrs. Robinson was questioned for
hours. Her answers cleaned up the
few still obscure details Of the ram
som plot. What she could not tell
was supplied by Mr.. and Mrs. Clegg.
MIR. and Mrs. Clegg were work.
ing with the department of justice
and had as much to do with a happy
conclusion of this case as any one
else" said Mr.. Nathan in the most
complete story obtainable from Of
fetal sources.
Robinson is a former employe of
the Stoll Company as well as
former inmate of the Tennessee
state insane asylum" he said. This
was a one-man job, managed by
him, although others were involved
in it later.
Times Story Is Aid
Mrs. Stoll was kept in an apart
ment house at Indianapolis by Mrs
Robinson. The $4,000 ransom was
sent by express to Nashville.
There Mrs. Robinson claimed it
and federal agents picked up her
trail.
She was followed to Terre Haute,
Ind, on a train which she left there.
She took a taXicab in Terre Haute
for indianapolis A federal agent
disguised as a cab driver was unsUc-
cessful in an attempt to get her into
his cab, but she was followed by
agents in another car.
How her husband escaped the
shadowers after she had transferred
S49,500 Of the ransom money to him
and left the Indianapolis prison
fiat with Mrs. Stoll was unexplained
in the account given by Mr.. Nathan
and Washington officials.
There were indications that the
apartment had been under observa-
ton since Friday or Saturday, al
though officials would not confirm
them.
Suspicion first was directed toward
Robinson early in the investigation
after examination Of a typewriter in
the home of his father showed the
ransom note was written upon it.
Fingerprints on the ransom note
and in the Robinson home made it a
virtual certainty that the young for
mer law student of Vanderbilt uni
versity was the man wanted.
THE kidnaper left his wife and
Mrs. Stol in the apartment at In
dianapolis. Mrs. Robinson had read
in The Indianapolis Times that Mrs.
Clegg was a relative of Mrs. Stoll
and so the kidnaper and his wife
went to the Cleggs with Mrs. StoI.
That was how the Cleggs came
into the case. They were bringing
Mrs. Stoll back to Louisville when
the release was effected.
More arrests are expected to fol-
low at Nashville. We are arresting
several people who may have had
something to do with this, although
we believe the actual abduction was