The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-12
Robinson Nabbed in West,
Rushed to Louisville
by Plane.
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Simons. After his experience in the
drug store, he had grown a NOUS
tache, apparently to prevent any one
suspecting him of being the female
impersonator.
Berry Stoll Is Glad
A half hour after his capture, j.
Edgar Hoover, G-Men chief, called
reported to his Washington office
and announced that the last of the
public rats" had been taken.
Berry Stoll was told of the cap
ture of the kidnaper of his wife by
the United Press.
That's fine" he said, that's
great. I'm certainly glad to hear
it,"
Mrs. Stoll would not comment.
In Nashville Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Robinson Sr. expressed thanks for
their sons safety when informed
that he was captured.
Our boy, our son-he's living, he's
safe" the father said. ITS a re-
lief to know he's alive. 1t ends a
long period of anxiety for us. I
don't know what steps will be taken
but l will try to provide counsel for
him merely to see that his legal
rights are protected"
Wife Is In Country
The elder Robinson said that Mrs.
Frances Robinson, his sons wife,
who with her father in-law was &C
quilted of completely in the crime,
is out in "the country" with her
mother and her boy.
Mrs. Robinson Jr. had been forced
TO stay in her husbands Indianapo-
lis lair with his victim, and accom-
panied Mrs. Stoll to Louisville after
her release.
Robinson and Mrs. Robinson were
tried in Louisville Federal Court for
completely in the kidnapping and
we're acquitted on Oct. 13, 1885. The
jury decided that they had been I'M
Willingly and innocently involved in
the crime.
Young Robinson had been in sew
eral minor scrapes with police in his
home town, Nashville, and had been
sent to an asylum for the insane for
observation He had been appraised
as possessing a brilliant but twisted
mind.
Slugged His Victim
Leaving Nashville, he worked for
a while in one of the filling stations
here owned by the Stoll Oil So. of
which Berry Stoll is an executive.
In October, 1894, a man in work.
mans garb presented himself at the
Stoll home in an exclusive Louis
vile section. saying he had been
sent to inspect the telephone.
He went upstairs where Mrs. Stoll
was confined to her room with
cold. Informed she was about to
be kidnapped, Mrs Stoll resisted and
was slugged. In nightdress and
negligee, the kidnaper bound her
hands, threw a coat over her Shout
ders and half pushed, half carried
her to his waiting car,
The house maid telephoned Stoll
He found a neatly typewriter ram
some note on his wife's bed The
kidnaper had first intended to kid
nap c. G. Stoll, Berry Stolls father,
because his name was used through
out the note as that of the victim
The kidnaper had first intended to
ask $4,000. That figure had been
scratched out and $4,000 substi-
tuted.
Father Named intermediary
Soon after Mrs. Stoll was carried
off, her husband received a COM
munication telling him that Thomas
H. Robinson ST.. of Nashville was the
kidnaper's intermediary. Robinson
Sir refused to serve, but finally was
induced by the frantic Stolls to do
so. The kidnaper then instructed
the Stolls to send the $4,000 ram
som to the elder Robinson by ex-
press.
Later Mrs Robinson took the
ransom from Nashville to Indian
apoliS, where Robinson was hiding
his victim in an apartment.
Though free TO leave, Mrs. Robin
son stayed with the victim even
after Robinson fled with the ran
som, and accompanied Mrs. Stoll
back to Louisville in an automobile.
G-men intercepted the car and ar
rested her, though Mrs. Stoll in
sisted that Mrs. Robinson had be-
friended her and had had nothing
to do with the KIDNAPPING.
She and her father-in-law were
indicted for completely under the
Lindbergh law. After an eXtradi-
ton fight and many postponements,
they were brought to trial in the
fall! of 1885 and acquitted.
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