Evening star., 1934-10-12
Lawyer, Announcing Pay
ment, Says Family Await
ing FuIfiIIment of Promises
by Matron's Abductor.
NEWS FOLLOWS DASH
THROUGH KENTUCKY
Wealthy Louisville Oil Man
Leaves Home Hurriedly and,
With Detective, Pursues Car
Bearing Woman With Bandage
About Her Head.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, KY. October IA
The ransom for Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll
has been paid and the family is await
ing instructions, was the announce
ment today from Berry v. Stoll, hus-
band of the young society matron,
who was Snatched from their fashion,
able country home near here late
Wednesday.
The statement given by an attorney
representing the Stoll family at a
conference with newspaper men said:
I'VE have carefully followed instruc-
tions, met all ransom requirements,
and are waiting fulfllment Of prom
ises.
"The parties may act freely without
fear or hindrance.
BERRY V. sTCLL."
Husband PursueS Car.
The announcement followed wild
dash by Stoll through Southern Ken
lucky in pursuit of an automobile re-
ported to have contained a woman
with a bandaged head.
Highways throughout Central and
Southern Kentucky were blocked by
Sheriffs and other officers on a re-
quest made at Hodgenville by de-
tective who accompanied Stoll.
The pair who had left the Stoll
home in Louisville drove through
HogenviIle about HIS am, heading
toward Elizabethtown, after the de-
tective had requested the sheriff at
Hodgenville to telephone to sherifts In
nearby counties to watch for the
mysterious machine. 1t was reported
to have been driven by man and to
have had a woman passenger. The
description of her head being bandaged
apparently made the wealthy young
oil company executive almost certain
it was his wife, since her maid, Ann
Woolet, had declared that the uni
Identified man who snatched Mrs. Stoll
from her home and left $4,000
ransom demand, had slugged her on
the head with an iron pipe until she
bled.
Leaves Home Suddenly.
Stoll, oil company executive, VINO
had been keeping almost an unbroken
vigil at his beautiful country home,
left his home hurriedly and raced
southwark along narrow, winding Lime
Kiln lane with another man, who was
driving. Shortly afterward two auto
mobiles, one police car, dashed
southwark along the lane, coming from
the upper river road.
The sudden activity was in striking
contrast to the quiet that had pre-
vailed in the fashionable Upper River
road neighborhood since all guards
and investigators, Federal and police,
had been withdrawn yesterday to give
the kidnapers an opportunity to make
contact with the Stoll family.
Ask Activity of Planes Cease.
Coupled with the renewed activity
came a renewed request from the
Stolls through William S. Kammerer,
their spokesman, that no airplanes fly
over the vicinity of the place. 1t was
ChpIdlIlCu lIldb LllC OlSllN Va plants
might make the kidnaper fear he was
being hunted from the air and pre-
vent any possible contacts.
The safe return of the 26-year-old
wife, who was i'll with cold when
slugged and taken from her home, was
placed above all else in statements
made by the family and by Depart
ment of Justice agents.
I'VE are still keeping the wires
Open" Stoll said today to reporter:
shortly before he left home, and was
all the comment he would make. Tht
family had appealed yesterday fol
the kidnaper to communicate with
them and it was believed that all was
ready. to pay the $4,000 ransom
which the kidnaper's note demanded
as soon as he could give sufhcien
proof that he had the woman. Tele'
phones with secret numbers to b'
given the kidnaper on his first con-
tact were installed in the home.
Agents Question Man.
Shortly before Stoll left six Depart
rnent of Justice agents went to Smith
Grove, KY. near the Tennessee borde
and questioned william Crump, VIII
reported last night he had seen al
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