Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-12
Two Kidnopers Admit Plotting
Death of Boy Before Abduction;
Slew Him in Kansas, Hall Saws
Confession AbsoIves
Marsh; Government
Re-enterS Case
BY the Associated Press

o4 LOO4O, OCI. 1G.-DOpS dQ-
dict Carl Austin Hall and his
alcoholic woman friend con-
feSSed today they plotted 6-year-
old Bobby Greenhouses Staying
even before he was kidnapped.
The Government Immediately
stepped back into the case under
the Lindbergh Kidnapping Law.
The 34-year-old Hall, a ne'er-
do-Well son of respected Kansas
family, and Mrs. Bonnie Brown
Heady, Al, signed statements
saying they took little Bobby
across the State line into Kan
sas, where Hall killed him shortly
after the kidnapping in Kansas
City, Mo, September %.
Admits Shooting Boy.
Hall, in his new confession,
admitted he fired a bullet into
the right side of the little boys
head. Only a short time before
Bobby had been playing with
schoolmateS. It was Mrs. Heady
who lured Bobby from a nun at
an exclusive private Catholic
school on the pretext that she
was his aunt.
Their confessions were an
nounced by the FBI. which said
the two kidnapers admitted di--
ging the boys grave behind Mrs.
Heady's home in st. Joseph, Mo-,
before the kidnapping.
Thus the couple plotted the
little boys death even before
the abduction took place. The
FBI disclosed the lime found over
Bobbys body was bought before
the abduction.
Kidnapping Charges Filed.
At Kansas City Federal kid
MAPPING charges were filed before
United States Commissioner C.
H. Thompson. Two State charges
are pending against the couple,
one for murder at st. Joseph
and the other for kidnapping at
Kansas City.
The opinion here was that the
Federal government would re-
tain jurisdiction and put the
couple on Federal trial at Kan
sas City.
Edward L. Scheufler, United
States District Attorney at Kan
Sas City, said the fact that the
kidnapping occurred in Missouri
qualities Kansas City as the trial
site for the couple.
He said the couple would be
returned there from St. Louis
as quickly as possible for
hearing.
Remain Outwardly Calm.
After their confessions today
both Hall and Mrs. Heady re-
manned outwardedly calm at the
City Jail where they are held
now under bonds of 100000
each on Federal extortion
charges.
Jail officials said Hall remained
sullen.
Mrs. Heady asked for a pencil,
saying she wanted to work a
crossword puzzle in a newspaper
she had. The pencil was given
to her. Then she asked for other
reading material. A copy of a
love story magazine was given
to her.
The FBI said it has been de-
termined that the Greenlease
boy had been killed about IL
miles from Kansas City across
the line in Kansas.
Marsh Is AbsOlved.
Hall absolved Tom Marsh, 81,
the tattooed ex-convict and sex
offender, in his new confession.
He had been named by Hall as
the killer of the boy soon after
Halls and Mrs Heady's arrest
here last Tuesday night.
The FIJI said a mechanical
pencil of type known to have
been lin little Bobby's possession
at the time of his abduction was
found at the murder site. The
pencil haG been put out by the
Greenlease Motor Co as an adj
vertiSement.
The boys 71-year-old multi
millionaire father, Robert C.
Greenlease, runs the motor car
company. Mr.. Greenlease paid
a 100000 ransom in an effort
to get his boy back.
The pivotal point leading to
(See KIDNAPPING, Page A-30