Evening star., 1934-10-18
STOL[ GRAND Jury.
CALLED SATURDAY
Kidnaper's Car Is Located
in 0hio-Driver Escapes
Pursuing Police.
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night she passed the cells and heard
O negro woman cursing loudly.
On her arraignment yesterday Mrs
Robinson entered a formal plea OF not
guilty to the charges and went to
jail in default of $4,000 bond. Hear
ing was set for October 26.
Meanwhile Robinson. the kidnaper
who knew death is the penalty" hid
today from a Government determined
to exact it.
A warrant charging that Thomas
Fl. Robinson, ST., helped his name
sake son kidnap the Louisville society
matron from her home was ON its
way to Nashville, Tenn. The older
man is held there. Sparks planned to
demand the same bond for him.
Mrs. Stoll's pledge to keep silent
about her six-day captivity in an
indianapolis apartment lapsed yeSter-
day afternoon. Most of what she told
is known to authorities alone. But it
gagged several times.
Feared for Her Life.
"She thought she was surely going
to die couple of times"
That much her husband, Berry v.
Stoll, vice president of the Stoll Oil
Refining Co., disclosed.
When Federal agents stopped a car
bringing Mrs. Stoll home from her
ordeal Tuesday night Frances Robin
son was at the wheel and $500 of the
ransom money was found in her purse.
That ended the kid gloves" phase
of the case. The Federal Government
hurled all its might and cunning on
the trail of Thomas H. Robinson, jr.
Sparks said on the facts before him
he would insist upon the death
penalty
Melvin H. Purvis, agents of whose
Chicago Bureau of the Division of In
vestigation bounded the outlaw John
Dillinger to his death, went after
Robinson in indianapolis. There, as
Thomas Kennedy" Robinson rented
an apartment, in it he confined Mrs.
Stoll.
Previous Residences Checked.
South Bend police learned Robin
son worked as janitor there last year.
They watched for him to come back
At Lima, Ohio, a train was gone
over, on a tip Robinson was aboard.
Chicago officers dragged their city.
The kidnaper worked there, too, at
the Century of Progress.
The same activity awaited him at
many other places where he might
seek refuge. Police and United States
agents maintained a lookout for
car with Indiana license 504-519 or
Illinois 33l-700. From Cincinnati,
Toledo, Nashville came the same
news: Robinson would find the law
alert, giving no quarter.
The gangland dives where officers
often hunt their quarry were not be-
lieved to shelter him despite his Grim
inal record and his confinement in
Tennessee institutions for the insane.
1t was this last that whipped up
fear, while Mrs. Stoll was his captive,
that she would be slain in spaSm OF
madness.
While her husband fed before the
agents, Mrs. Robinson faced United
States Commissioner Eugene DALEY
alone. Without counsel and ringed
about by Federal agents, she heard
Marshal L. r. Cranor read the war
rant accusing her, her husband and
her father-in-law of violating the
Lindbergh law. 1t was sworn to by
Earl j. Connelley, commanding the
agents who pursue her husband. She
hung on his arm.
Processes Ignorance.
II don't know anything about It, I
don't care" she said as the phrases
were intoned, accusing kidnapping, con-
spiracy to kidnap, interstate transfer
of a person for ransom and holding
for ransom. The same charges con-
front the other two.
She trembled Tears stained her
cheeks. Her voice became shrill.
Il want an attorney" she burst ouA
"I demand an attorney"
Judge Daley had asked if she had
anything to say. Cameramen flashed
their lights. She flinched. Sparks
said she would be given every opportu-
nifty to get a lawyer. She pleaded not
guilty. Judge Daley set preliminary
hearing for october 26, at 10 o'clock
in the morning.
Sparks said he would not wait for
capture of the younger Robinson to
prosecute.
Her husband a fugitive, his father a
prisoner, Mrs. Robinson turned for
comfort to the woman her husband
kidnapped. She asked to "get in touch
with Mrs. Stoll right away-right
away"
Connors said if she came the prisoner
could see her.
That more than desperation inspired