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Hudson's Chairman Roy Dikeman Chapin, onetime (1932-33) Secretary of Commerce, has been Topman in his company since 1910. He got into motors by way of photography. Hired by Ransom Eli Olds in 1901, he made all the pictures for the first Olds catalog. As Secretary of Commerce under Herbert Hoover, his premature predictions of Depression's end surprised automobile associates who had long admired him as an able man of business. But Politician Chapin was merely upholding the traditions of his office by breathing optimisms of which Automan Chapin would never have been guilty...
...Inescapable Evidence." In Trenton, New Jersey's Court of Errors & Appeals handed down its decision in the case of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, who kidnapped and murdered Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. near Hopewell in March 1932, was caught with ransom money in The Bronx in September 1934, was convicted and sentenced to death at Flemington in February 1935. Unanimously the 13 voting members of New Jersey's highest court upheld the trial court on all 16 contested points of law, declared that the German carpenter's conviction was "one to which the evidence inescapably led." In a forlorn...
...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 up his trail...
...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...
Willard Weaver Ransom, of Lockport, N. Y., appointed Assistant in Chemistry. A.B. Williams...