SEQUEL TO BRUTAL KIDNAPPING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19933, 18 October 1934, Page 9

SEQUEL TO BRUTAL KIDNAPPING

HAUPTMANN TO FACE MURDER CHARGE United Press Association—By Electric Tel egraph —Copvrtgh t (Received October 17, 7.10 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 16. Bernard Hauptmann failed to-day in his initial attempt to avoid extradition to New Jersey to face his trial for the murder of the Lindbergh baby, when the District Supreme Court dismissed a Habeas Corpus writ, after a hearing in which a witness positively identified Hauptmann as the man seen in the vicinity of the Lindbergh home a few days prior to the kidnapping. Handwriting experts testified that the ransom notes were “undeniably” in Hauptman’s handwriting. The Court granted Hauptmann 48 hours’ stay, pending an appeal. WOMAN ESCAPES FROM TOILS OF INSANE CRIMINAL United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received October 17, 7.50 p.m.) WASHINGTON. October 16. The Department of Justice announced to-night that Mrs Stoll was found safe in the neighbouring State of Indiana “in fairly good condition.” The kidnapper has definitely been identified as T. H. Robinson, an insane criminal.

Mrs Stoll was brutally treated at times during her six days in the kidnapper’s hands.

Robinson, who is aged 27, and who is a former inmate of insane asylums in Tennessee, has not yet been arrested. Robinson’s wife was traced from Nashville, where she received 50,000 dollars 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. A message from Louisville (Kentucky) on October 10, stated that Mrs Berry V. Stoll, aged 26, the wife of the vice-president of the Stoll Refining Company, of Louisville, was beaten and kidnapped from her home by an unknown man. A ransofn note, which was found in the Stoll home, indicated that Mr William Stoll, president of the Louisville Board of Trade, and a brother-in-law of the kidnapped woman, was the next on the list of the kidnappers. The ransom of 50,000 dollars was later paid bv Mr Stoll.