Evening star. [volume], October 09, 1935, Page A-8, Image 8

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IN KIDNAP Cl [
Forthwith Subpoena Issued
at Request of Mrs. Rob
inson’s Counsel.
By the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., October 9.—A
forthwith subpoena for Melvin H. Pur
vis, former Department of Justice
agent, to appear as a witness at the
Stoll kidnaping trial here of Thomas
H Robinson, sr., and his daughter-in
law, Mrs. Prances A. Robinson, w’as
Issued by Federal Judge Elwood Hamil
ton today at the request of defense
Counsel.
Jack Norman, counsel for Mrs. Rob
inson. abruptly terminated his cross
examination of H. H. Reinecke, De
partment of Justice agent, to ask the
court for the forthwith subpoena.
Purvis' name was among the list of
witnesses •originally subpoenaed for
the trial. Norman told the court he
could supply Purvis' present address.
Stopping of Auto.
Defense counsel indicated it wanted
to examine Purvis as to what hap
pened when and after Federal agents
stopped the automobile in Southern
Indiana bringing Mrs. Alice Speed
Stoll to Louisville after she had been
ransomed for $50,000.
M. C. Fslkner. agent at Chicago last
year, testified that the elder Robinson
had told him he received a telephone
call from Robinson. Jr., the night of
October 8, 1934, which he prevloualy
denied, and that he found a plat or
diagram of the Indianapolis apart
ment where Mrs. Stoll was held
prisoner, in Robinson, sr.’s, own hand,
in his room.
Entering the third day of the trial,
the Government continued to trace
the trip of the $50,000 ransom from
Louisville through Nashville, Tenn..
Guthrie, Ky„ and Terre Haute to
Indianapolis where it vanished.
Robinson Guilt Now Denied.
Neither the defendants nor any one
Use has denied that the actual kid
naping was carried out by Thomas H.
Robinson, jr„ considered by the De
partment of Justice as the Nation’s
No. 1 fugitive kidnaper. The question
6f the guilt or innocence of his wife
and father turns upon their motlvea
in co-operation with the Stoll family
In payment of the ransom.
Against Robinson, sr„ the Govern
ment has presented testimony to
•how:
That he possessed a plat or diagram
of the Indianapolis apartment where
Mrs. Stoll was held prisoner for six
days, that he was aware his son was
the kidnaper, that he suggested his
son’s wife act as ageril in delivering
the $50,000 ransom, that he was in
touch with his son by telephone and
these communications were available
to the Department of Justice by means
of wire tapping.
Wife'* Alleged Part.
Against Mrs. Robinson, Govern
ment witnesses have testified:
That she was a willing messengef
In delivering the ransom.
That she and her husband rented
the apartment-prison under asaumed
names. t
That she urged her husband to make
his getaway quickly with the ransom
monef"after she delivered it.
T>at she took $500 of the ransom
moriey, later giving it up to Federal
•gents.
Mrs. Robinson's counsel won from
Mrs. Stoll an admission that she was
•’grateful" for the now accused wom
an’s part in effecting her release, per
haps savirg her life, and Robinson’s
lawyers drew from C. C. Stoll an as
sertion that he urged Robinson to act
as agent for the Stoll family and "of
fered to put It in writing."
PROCESSING TAX FOUGHT
6PRINGFIELD. Ill. October 9 UP).
—A suit to prevent the Government
from collecting processing taxes was
filed in Federal Court here yesterday
bv Hiram Walker & Sons, Inc., large
Peoria, 111., distillery. *
The bill of complaint said that since
May, 1934, the firm had processed
2 909,595 bushels of corn, on which
the processing tax will total $153,430,
Including interest.
The bill alleged the processing tax
Is Illegal.
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