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£lO,OOO PAID AS RANSOM WAS BOUND AND BEATEN WOMAN’S GRAVE ORDEAL i CRIMINAL IDENTIFIED By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Rec. 8 p.m. Washington, Oct. 16. The Department of Justice announced to-night that Mrs. Stoll had been found safe in the neighbouring _ state of Indiana “in fairly good condition.” The kidnapper had been definitely identified as T. H. Robinson, an insane criminal. Mrs. Stoll, wife of a leading business man of Louisville, Kentucky, was kidnapped after being bound and beaten. A demand for the payment of £lO,OOO was made, and it was announced that Mrs. Stoll’s husband had made arrangements for payment of the ransom. Mrs. Stoll was brutally treated at times during her six days in the kidnapper’s hands. Robinson, who is 27 years old, a former inmate of an insane asylum in Tennessee, has not yet been arrested. Robinson’s wife was traced from Nashville, where she received £lO,OOO ransom. She was arrested at Scottsburg, Indiana, and held for possible accessory charges, and Mrs. Stoll was released from the car in which she was riding.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1934, Page 5
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