The Washington times., 1934-10-11
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authorities by Adjutant Gen. H,
H. Denhardt.
The cold.blooded horror of the
kidnapping of Mrs. Stoll was de-
Scribed today by Mrs. Ann Woolet
24-year-old maid who, with Mrs
Stoll, was bound and gagged.
Posed as Repairman
Posing as having come to
repair a telephone, a man en-
tered the Stoll residence, over
looking the Ohio River north OF
here, at 3 p. m. yesterday, the
maid related. The phone was
in the upstairs bedroom Of the
residence.
Clad only in a negligee, Mrs.
Stoll retired to the guest bed.
room while the man tinkered
with the wires in her own room
and made several trips to the
basement.
The maid stepped into the
room just as she overheard the
man say what sounded like:
"WelI, I'll have to have help.
Maybe the maid will do"
Tossing a tool onto the floor
to distract her attention, he
whirled, poked a pistol into her
back and whispered:
Don't squawk."
Then he pushed her into the
room where Mrs. Stoll lay on
O bed.
When she saw the revolver
MRS. Ston asked:
''What's thiS?"
The intruder calmly told her:
"I've come to kidnap you."
Mrs. Stol1 attempted to engage
him in conversation. She Of
fered:
"I'll write you o check"
The man whipped out what
appeared to be O pipe covered
with cloth and hit Mrs. Stoll on
the forehead, cutting a deep cash
AS she reeled, stunned, he struck
her again on the back of the
head.
Forces Maid to Help
He drew a roll of Pinch ad
hesive tape from his pocket and
forced the maid to bind Mrs
Stoll's hands. Then he tied the
servant to a chair with some
wire, taped her mouth, ripped the
wires from the telephone and or.
dered:
"Hurry up"
AS Mrs. Stoll recovered slowly
from the numbing blow she asked
Where are we going?"
The kidnaper replied:
"Out in field"
Then he added:
'If Berry comes back here,
TIL kill him.
Mrs. Stoll said:
Lets go. 1 don't want any
one to be killed"
Asking the kidnaper to throw
her Observation-Disclosures coat
about her, she started downstairs
AS blood flowed from her wound
she struggled to resist the kid
naper but he picked her up and
carried her to his car.
Two splotches of blood stained
the floors of the richly furnished
home.
The maid placed the departure
OF the abductor and his captive
at 4:2G p. m. It was not until
after 5 p. m. that the tragedy
was discovered. Mr.. Stou himself
made the discovery when he re.
turned home.
He saw the maid tied to a
chair, loosed her and heard the
story of his wife's disappearance.
Immediately after he discovered
his wife Of five years was missing
Mr.. Stoll rushed to a neighbor'.
home and telephoned police
When he returned to his owr
home he found the ransom note
on a bed in an upstairs room.
The maid described Mrs. Stoll's
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old, 5 feet 8 inches in height and
weighing about 100 pounds. He
wore a dark gray suit and black
box-toed shoes, she said.
The dominant theory on which
police and Federal operatives
worked was that a well organized
kidnapping ring had engineered
the plot and that the lone in
truder was met by confederates
possibly in another automobile
soon after the getaway from th'
Stoll residence.
Fairly today detectives estab
1ished that the intruder hat
stopped at at least two gasoline
filling stations yesterday after
noon inquiring "the way to Berry
Stoll'S home"