CAREER OF CRIME

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 21 January 1939, Page 5

CAREER OF CRIME

YOUNG AMERICAN AIRMEN UNMASKED

SEVERAL ROBBERIES COMMITTED REMARKABLE DUAL LIFE U.P.A.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright! CLEVELAND, 20th January. Numerous thefts from various' parts of the country committed by two highly personable young Americans aviators at various times in recent months while house guests of Julian Inglefleld, a retired British Air Corps captain and a resident here, finally led to their apprehension and the disclosure of a remarkable dual life, in which social elegancies were skilfully mingled with holdups and other varieties of robbery-under-arms.

Payton Wilson, aged 20, and Quentin, aged 22, brothers, posing as members of a well-known meat-packing family, met Mrs Inglefleld last September at air races here, where Captain Inglefield was officiating. They quickly became intimate friends of the Inglefleld household and soon expressed a desire to marry the Inglefield’s two daughters. Mrs Inglefleld, however, forbade the engagements till she could meet the youngsters’ parents.

They, in the meantime, pleasantly idled days away, flying to nearby fields or staying with the Inglefields for two or three days at a time. They committed robberies in between.

On one occasion they left Inglefleld for an hour and committed a holdup nearby, where they stole 95 dollars. They 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.