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...Stoll. The kidnapping of wealthy young Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll of Louisville, Ky. fortnight ago, put the Division of Investigation ("D. O. I.") agents on their mettle. Mrs. Stoll, ill with a cold, was seized shortly after 3 p. m. from her suburban house by a man with a revolver and a lead pipe. The Stolls did not ring famed NAtional 7117 in Washington, as every kidnappee's family is supposed to do. The first thing that D. O. I. Director John Edgar Hoover knew about the case was when he received a telephone message...
...Melvin Purvis. Just past 30, Bureau Chief Purvis, University of South Carolina Law School graduate, helped with the Federal investigation of the Insull collapse, rounded up Verne Sankey and the Touhy gang, set the Chicago trap that resulted in the killing of Desperado John Dillinger last July.* In the Stoll case he was given the Indianapolis area...
...Indianapolis that Kidnapper Robinson motored Mrs. Stoll. In an apartment two blocks from the executive mansion of the Governor of Indiana, she was bound, nearly suffocated in a closet. Following directions in the ransom letter left in Louisville, Mrs. Stoll's kin sent $50,000 express to Father Robinson in Nashville. Snatcher Robinson's wife started for Indianapolis with the money, detrained at Terre Haute, unconsciously avoided a taxi proffered by a D. O. I. man in disguise, motored to Indianapolis. Off the trail, Chief Purvis and his men did not catch up with Mrs. Robinson until...
...best place for a reporter to have covered the Stoll kidnapping would have been the press room of the Department of Justice, 600 mi. from the scene of the crime. Even information from one field man to another is cleared through the central Washington office. The moment Mrs. Stoll was released, the complete, authoritative story on the kidnapping went out from Washington. Attorney General Cummings took on last August as his special assistant one of the ablest and most reliable of Washington correspondents, Henry Suydam, long with the Brooklyn Eagle...
Louisville, Ky., Oct. 18--Federal agents tonight had their first definite clue to the direction of flight taken by Thomas H. Robinson, Jr., former insane asylum inmate sought as the kidnaper of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll...