The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-11
LOUISVILLE WOMAN
TAKEN FROM HOME
BY Lone ABDUCTOR
Note Demands $50, 900 Ransom
From Wealthy Oil Execu.
tive Husband
INTENSIVE SEARCH FAILS
Fear Young Matron May Die; IN
Poor Health, SIugged
With Iron Pipe

Louisville. KY, Oct. 11.-(P-Fears
that Mrs. Alice Stoll, young society
matron, might die in kidnaper's
hands was based, it was learned
Thursday, 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 physician.
From members of the family OF
Berry v. Stoll, oil company vice
president, police learned during the
night that the 26-year-old former
Bryn Mawr student and junior league
member was i'll when white-faced
man kidnapped her late Wednesday
for $4,000 ransom.
Thursday Major William Schmidt,
night chief Of police. said she had a
high temperature Wednesday after
noon when an unidentified man got
into the Stoll home by ruse, SUBJ
dued her and her maid, Ann Violet,
and forced Mrs Stoll to leave with
him in an automobile.
The Stoll family physician, however,
said her temperature was not abnor-
mally high.
Call Broken Off
Berry Stoll, after a sleepless vigil
in the hope that the kfdnaper Of his
wife would telephone, renewed his re-
quests to police that all persons ex-
cept two policemen at the gate stay
away as result of an interrupted
telephone call during the early morn
ing hours. A man called the Stoll
home, but before he had identified
himself, the connection was broken.
The Stoll family and that Of Will
liam s. Speed, retired capitalist, her
father. announced from the start. they
were ready to pay the ransom and
Mr. Stoll reiterated:
I'VE are not so much interested
now in the capture of the kidnapers
as we are in the return Of Alice. AL
we want is to get her back alive"
Meanwhile federal agents were be-
ing concentrated In Louisville to aid
in the search on orders from Wash
ington and Governor Ruby Laffoon
offered all possible state aid. Its q
mighty ugly case" the governor added
In making his announcement.
Taciturn department Of justice men
directing their work, city and county
officers joined two state forces in
weaving a band about this area, hop
ing to trap the man and his victim.
Roads leading north were bar
ricaded in Indiana. Kentucky sher-
ifs, notified by radio, teletype and
telephone, watched their roads. Louis
vile squad cars roared out to check
futile clew after clew. Federal agents
drew In on the city.
Clues Are Lacking
But splotches of blood, the cultured
wording of the threatening ransom
note and the fallible memory Of al
almost-hySterical maid were all the
sleuths had to go on for hours after
the kidnapping.
The victim was seized in her home
on Lime Kiln Lane, in the fashion,
able but remote upper river road Sec
ton of Louisville. eight miles from
the city proper The kidnaper came
about o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
saying he had come to repair the tele-
phone, which had been giving trou-
BILE.
Ann Violet, 24-year old maid, whose
husband is a caretaker on the Stoll
estate, admitted him. She said he
looked and acted like . fiend." He
fooled around with the wires" she
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