Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-26
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Mrs. Faign said.
One False Note
The only false note he struck
occurred when he asked her
where he could get a handful
Of diamonds appraised. He
said he was carrying them in
his spectacle case. and later
told her they were worth $lS.-
500.
IT doubted that" she said.
II can't imagine anyone crazy
enough to carry that many
loose diamonds"
While Motherwell was in At
lanta, Mrs, Williamson said, q
woman she knew only as May"
whom Motherwell had brought
to the house several times,
called Mrs. Williamson.
Mrs. williams On recalled
'May" as an attractive. reddish
haired woman of about 80 or
IS. Motherwell had said he
planned to marry her in San
Francisco.
During one call, Mrs. Will
Hanson said, May" told her:
''Mrs. Williamson, I just don't
know enough about him to
marry him."
Motherwell returned to Mrs.
Williamson'S house on June 81,
and left for good on July 10
or 10.
Patch Over Eye
Shortly afterward, Mother
well, looking haggard and
wearing a pink patch over one
eye. went by to see Mrs. Faign.
He told her he was in Atlanta
to have an eye operation at a
veterans hospital.
Two days later, Mrs. Faign
said, Motherwell called her and
asked to borrow $500 for a
prescription.
The drugstore, Motherwell
told her. would not honor his
check. Mrs. Faign, wary Of
Motherwell by now, refused,
and that was the last she ever
heard from him.
Mrs. Williamson's suspicious
first were aroused after he left,
when several area merchants
said he had given them bad
checks, she said.
Then, when she saw his pic
ture as the man wanted in
the Putney death, her sons
told her it was her duty to re-
port it to the FBI.
She did, and her account Of
his trip to Atlanta led the
FBI to launch the intensive
manhunt which brought about
Motherwell's arrest.
The agents who caught him
the FBI does not want them
named-had been at the At
lanta Airport about 80 minutes,
showing Motherwell's picture
to employees. His description
and picture had been given
wide circulation that night, u
the hope it might scare
Motherwell into trying to flee
the city.
II just happened to be near
the shoeshine stand and saw
this guy" one Of the agents
said. II had a good photo
graph of Motherwell with me,
and this guy looked just like
him, only a little thinner.
THE more I looked at him,
the more I was convinced he
was the fellow we were looking
for. I caught my partners at
tention."
The partner, on the other
side of the terminal, recog-
nized him at once, and they
both moved in.
They came up behind him,
quickly identified themselves
and asked him his identif1ca-
ton. He insisted he was Craig
Dubar Foster, which was his
downfall.
1--WE knew Dubar was the
name of the man We were after
in Jacksonville" one agent said.
"After all, how many DubarS
are there?"
They hustled him outside,
where they confronted him
with an FBI wanted" poster
bearing his picture.
you could just see him COL
lapse when he saw that picture,
and he said Yes. I'm Larry"
the agent related.
A man with him, Victor B.
Sydnor, proved to be an &C
quaintance who was trying to
help Motherwell get a job in
Cleveland with an auto parts
company.
"Sydnor was flabbergasted,"
one agent said. HE looked as
though he was going to need
some reviving."
Told Same Story
Motherwell had told Mr..
Sydnor the same story he told
the family he had been room
ing with in Atlanta for the
past five weeks-that he was
a free-lance writer who fed
Cuba because Premier Fidel
Castro was angry at him.
Motherwell is charged on a
California warrant with MUIR
dering Mrs. Putney after taking
a cross-country trip with her
last summer. Mrs. Putney, who
was carrying some $4,000 in
cash and securities, was last
seen August IS, 1858, when she
and Motherwell checked out of
a motel in Marysville. Calf.
Parts of her skeleton were
found in a heavily wooded area
last August 16.
Motherwell insisted here yes
terday, as he had in the past,
that he left Mrs. Putney in Las