ABDUCTED FOR RANSOM
j PROMINENT U.S.A. WOMAN. MERCILESS BEATING. '' BOUND HAND AND FOOT; .(Received 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 10. , A message from Louisville, Kentucky, states that Mrs Berry V. Stoll, aged 26, wife of the vice-president of the Stoll Refining Company, was beaten and kidnapped from her honje today by an unknown man.
A note demanding a ransom was found in the house. This intimated that William Stoll, president of the Louisville Board of Trade, brother-in-law of the kidnapped woman, was the next on the list of kidnappers. Mrs Stoll’s husband discovered that she had been kidnapped when he returned home from his office, Mrs Fowler Willett, a maid, who was bound hand and foot, said the kidnapper got into the house on the pretext that he wanted to use the telephone. The man drew a pistol, said the maid, and forced her to help him to bind Mrs Stoll’s hands with tape. He was very rough and beat Mrs Stoll. She was bleeding as he dragged her out of the house.
The note asked for 50,000 dollars ransom. • The husband has published a statement addressed to the kidnapper, saying that arrangements for paying the. amount are being made.
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Northern Advocate, 12 October 1934, Page 5
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