AIRMEN AS GUESTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 January 1939, Page 7

AIRMEN AS GUESTS

MANY THEFTS DISCOVERED.

[by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]

CLEVELAND. January 20

Numerous thefts in various parts of the country have been committed by two highly-personable young American aviators, at various times in recent, months, while they have been house guests of Mr. Julian Inglefield, a retired British Air Corps Captain, who is resident here. Their robberies have finally led to their apprehension, and to the disclosure of a remarkable dual life, in which social elegancies were skilfully mingled with hold-ups and other varieties of robbery under arms.

The young men are Payton Wilson, aged 20 years, and Quentin Wilson, aged 22 years. They are brothers. They posed as members of a wellknown meat-packing family. They met Mrs. Inglefield last September, at air races here, where Mr. Inglefield was officiating. They quickly became intimate friends of the Inglefield household, and thej’ soon expressed a desire to marry the Inglefields’ two daughters. Mrs. Inglefield, however, forbade their engagements until she could meet the youngsters’ parents. They, meantime, pleasantlj r idled the days away, flying to nearby fields, or staying with the Inglefields for two or three days at a time. The two young men committed their robberies in between. Upon one occasion, they left the Inglefield home for an hour, and committed a hold-up nearby, where they got 95 dollars. They also robbed motorists, and guests at hotels, and thej r burglarised homes from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. They committed eight robberies totalling 5,500 dollars in New Orleans alone. Their car numbers ultimately betrayed therm