Evening star., 1934-10-11
Kentucky Matron Beaten
With Iron Pipe-Was III
at the Time.
"FIENDISH" ABDUCTOR
ASKS $50, 900 RANSOM
U. S. Agents Concentrate at
Observation-Disclosures Seeks
Contact With Kidnaper.
By the Associated Press. .

BY the Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, KY, October IL
Fears that Mrs. Alice Stoll, young So
ciety matron, might die in kidnaper's
hands was based, 1t was learned today,
not only on the fact that she was
beaten with an iron pipe until blood
came, but that she was suffering from
severe cold that had required q
physician when abducted.
From members of the family Of
Berry v. Stoll, oil company vice presi-
dent, police learned during the night
that the 26-year- old former Bryn-
Mawr student and Junior League men,
Der was i'll when white-faced man
kidnapped her late yesterday for S50000
ransom. Today Maj. William Schmidt,
night chief of police, said the young
woman had high temperature yester-
day afternoon when an unidentified
man got into the Stoll home by ruse,
subdued her and her maid, Ann
Woolet. and forced Mrs. Stoll to leave
with him in an automobile. The Stoll
family physician. however, said her
temperature was not abnormally high.
Ready to Pay Ransom.
The Stoll family and that of William
S. Speed. retired capitalist, her father,
announced from the start they we're
ready to pay the ransom and today Mr..
Stoll reiterated:
I'VE are not so much interested now
in the capture of the kidnaper as we
are in the return Of Alice All we
want is to get her back alive"
Stoll, after a sleeplesS vigil in the
hope that the kidnaper would telephone
renewed his requests to police today
that all persons except two policemen
at the gate stay away as result Of an
interrupted telephone call during the
early morning hours. A man called
the Stoll home but before he had
identified himself the connection was
broken.
Hope that it might have been q
start at telephone negotiations by the
kidnaper mingled with doubt as to
whether curiosity had not prompted
some one to make the call. But Mr..
Stoll again announced he was anxious
to open negotiations.
Federal Agents Concentrate.
Meanwhile, Federal agents were be-
ing concentrated in Louisville to aid
in the search on orders from Wash
ington, and Gov. Ruby Laffoon offer
ed all possible State aid. It's n
mighty ugly case" the Governor
added in making his announcement.
Taciturn Department Of Justice
men directing their work. city and
county offers joined two State police
forces in weaving a band about this
area, hoping to trap the man and his
victim.
Federal agents and police had these
clues to aid in their search for the
kidnaper:
A ransom note demanding $4,000,
written on a typewriter using both a
black and red ribbon. The note indi-
Gated an intimate knowledge of the
family and hinted that Mrs Stoll
woulo be taken outside The State.
The maids description of the alb
ductor-age 80 to IS, pasty COM
plexion as though just out of prison,
about feet inches tall, wearing a
dark gray suit, pin-striped, hatless.
An envelope, postmarked Nashville,
Tenn, found on the lawn OF the
Stoll estate.
A bloodstained roll of adhesive tape
such as was used to bind Mrs. Stoll,
A piece of gas pipe 16 inches long,
wrapped in brown paper neld in place
with tape
Fingerprints on the telephone the
kidnaper jerked from the wall
If there were other clues, they were
kept secret.
Roads Are Barricaded.
Roads leading north were barri-
caded in Indiana. Kentucky sheriffs,
notified by radio, teletype and tele-
phone, watched their roads, Louis
vile squad cars roared out to check
futile clue after clue.
But splotches of blood, the cul-
tured wording of the threatening ran
som note and the fallible memory Of
an almost hysterical maid were all
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