BEATEN AND KIDNAPPED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22391, 12 October 1934, Page 9

BEATEN AND KIDNAPPED

PROMINENT AMERICAN WOMAN DEMAND FOR RANSOM NEW YORK, October 10. (Received Oct. 11, at 9 p.in.) A message from Louisville, Kentucky, states that Mrs Berry V. Stoll, aged 26, wife of Mr Stoll, vice-president of the Refining Company, of Louisville, was beaten and kidnapped from her home today by an .unknown man. A ransom note found in the Stoll home indicated that William Stoll, president of the Louisville Board of Trade, and brother-in-law of the kidnapped woman, was next on the list of the kidnappers. The husband discovered the kidnapping when he returned home from his office and found the maid bound hand and foot. The maid said that the abductor got in on the pretext of using the telephone. She said, “I never saw a more fiendish looking man.” He drew a pistol and forced the maid to help him to bind Mrs Stoll’s hands with tape. He was unusually rough, the maid said, as was proved by traces of blood on the floor. The ransom note asked for 50,000 dollars. The husband has published a state.ment Addressed to the kidnapper, stating that arrangements for the ransom are being made. Mrs Fowler Willett, the 24-year-old maid, said that the kidnapper beat Mrs Stoll, and she was bleeding as he dragged her out of the house.