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This left as the nation's Public Enemy No. 1 a female impersonator: Thomas H. Robinson Jr., who snatched Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll in Louisville, Ky. in 1934. Said Director Hoover: "It's only a matter of time. . . ." It was a matter of a few-days before G-men captured Robinson in Glendale, Calif. He had doffed the women's clothes in which he had frequently eluded his pursuers, disguised himself instead with a mustache. On Robinson his captors found $4,200 of the $50,000 Stoll ransom...
Absent Transvestite. In the Federal district court at Louisville a kidnapping trial began without the actual snatcher. To tne witness stand went rich young Alice Speed Stoll, daughter-in-law of a Louisville oilman, to tell how Thomas H. Robinson Jr. had abducted her from her suburban home in October 1934, held her captive in an Indianapolis apartment for the next six days while dickering for $50,000 ransom (TIME, Oct. 20, 1934). 'Napper Robinson's eccentricity is transvestitism. Since he habitually wears women's clothes, Government agents have not yet been able to pick...
...justice last week were Robinson's wife, to whom Mrs. Stoll was once grateful for conveying her back home, and Robinson's father, a Nashville. Tenn. engineer who rejected the ransom when it was sent to his house, went to Government agents for advice, became intermediary only after persuasion from the Stolls. Things began to look bad for Robinson Sr., however, when Government agents revealed that they had found in his Nashville home a floor plan of his son's Indianapolis hideout. But the Louisville jury took only seven and a half hours to acquit both Father...
Under Assistant Suydam, the Department of Justice release on the Stoll case made more sense and better reading than any of the reams written by groping newshawks on the Louisville. Nashville, Terre Haute and Indianapolis front...
...words a day of finished news stories, ready for reading by the announcer. At almost any hour the station chooses, it can have enough fresh news for a 15-minute broadcast. It can, and occasionally does, scoop the official Press-Radio Bureau on such news as the Stoll kidnapping, the assassination of King Alexander, the extradition of Bruno Richard Hauptmann...