Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-27
Fairfax Man
Sentenced in
kidnap Hoax
Gets Month After
Effort to Obtuin
$4,000 FoiIs

A Fairfax County construction
worker accused Of trying to OBJ
tain $1,000 with a false kidnap
report was sentenced today to
serve a month in Jail.
He is Jimmy Christopher
Stanley of Ida, Va, who at first
was feared to be a kidnap victim
yesterday when his wife Lorraine
received several telephone calls
demanding the money if she
wanted to see him alive again. q.
Stanley was caught by county
police last night in a carefully
laid trap at the place the ransom
was supposed to be paid. He was
captured at Annandale after he
showed up to claim dummy
ransom" envelope from his
father, Hobert Stanley, of Clint
wood, Va, police said.
C0nfesses Hoax
At first, Stanley insisted that
a man was hiding in the back
seat of his car with a gun in
his back when he picked up the
ransom" envelope, but within
a few minutes confessed he
cooked up the kidnap plan to
get $4,000 from his parents be-
cause he felt the money was
due him, police said. He said
he gave a man S. to phone his
wife.
Stanley said he opened a
wound he had suffered in
fight in an attempt to show he
had been beaten. He said he
tied his arms tightly with a
clothes hanger to make it look
as if he had been bound.
The $4,000, Stanley told police,
was to be a down payment on
a house.
He was sentenced at Fairfax
today by Trial Justice John A.
Rothrock. He was given a six
months Jail term, but five
months were suspended. Also
suspended was a $50 fine. The
sentence followed the recon-
mendation of Marcus Beckner,
assistant Commemorative at
torney.
Phone Call From Stranger
Mrs. Stanley followed her hus-
bands instructions and called
his parents. The parents told
Sheriff John c. Rose of Clint
wood and he notified Fairfax
County police.
It. Grafton Wells of Fairfax
police said the investigation al
most was called off yesterday
when a foreman for M. T. Broy-
hill & Sons, where Stanley
worked, reported that he had
seen the alleged kidnap victim
at work. Later it turned out that
he saw another man named
Stanley at work.
According to 1t. Wells, here
is how the case was wrapped up:
At S pm. yesterday. Mrs. STAN
ley received another telephone
call from her husband. He told
her he was still being held pris-
oner. pending payment of the
ransom. He hung UP hurriedly,
promising to call back as soon
as his captors gave him instruc-
lions about payment of the ran
som.
Mrs. Stanley received the next
call from her husband at 8 pm.
Fairfax police were listening in.
He first told her to come to
Washington with the ransom
money, but she said she was too
upset. She said his parents had
just arrived from Clintwood,
which is near the Kentucky bor-
der. and 1t was agreed that his
father could come with the ran
sow money to Annandale at $50
pm.
Police stuffed a business en-
velope with strips of paper the
size of money and arranged a
stake-out at Annandale.
AS the father walked in front
of a parking lot. police saw
young Stanley drive up and take
the dummy ransom envelope
from him. The son took off in
his car and police went after
him.
1t. Wells said Stanley had
opened the envelope, found the
torn paper inside and tossed it
away during the few minutes
that he was out of police view.
Police recovered the envelope
and paper.