NUMEROUS ROBBERIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 45, 21 January 1939, Page 9

NUMEROUS ROBBERIES.

CAREER OF CRIME ENDS,

TWO YOUNG AMERICANS,

CLEVELAND, Jan. 20

Numerous thefts from various parts of the country committed by two highly personable young American aviators at various times in recent months while house guests of Julian Inglefield, a retired British Air Corps captain and a resident here, have finally led to their apprehension and the disclosure bf a - remarkable dual life, iu which social elegancies were skilfully mingled with hold-ups, and other varieties ‘of robbery-under-arms. Payton "Wilson, aged IX), and Quentin Wilson, aged 22, brothers, posing as members of a well-known meatpacking family, met Mrs Inglefield last September at air races here, where Captain Inglefield was officiating. They quickly became initimate friends of the Inglefield household and soon expressed a desire to marry the Inglefield’s two daughters. Mrs Inglefield. however forbade the engagements till she could meet the youngsters parents. The brothers, in the meantime, pleasantly idled the days away, flying to nearby fields' or staying with the Imjleficlds for two or three days at a time. They committed robberies in between. On one occasion they loft the Inglefield house for an hour and committed a hold-up nearby, where they stole 95 dollars. Thev * robbed motorists, guests at hotels and burgled homes from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. They committed eight robberies totalling 5500 dollars in New Orleans alone. Their car numbers ultimately betrayed them.