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Show stolen from her home herp in ' tober. JP34. arter being '2:, with a piece of pipe, she was , ill leased six clays later after h hnshand had paid S50.000 ranwVml! Robinson probably wil, b' "NYl raigned before Judge Hamilton late today or tomorrow on th i Lindbergh indictment. Gardner ! Ham H. Mahan, another kidnaper. All have been taken since May 1 by federal agents. Gardner refused to comment further on his decision to ask the death penalty. Robinson is under indictment for violation of the Lindbergh law, which specifies death tor kidnaping if the victim is harmed. A Kentucky law provides pro-vides death for kidnaping whether wheth-er or not the victim is harmed. To Plead Insanity Gardner said he was "fairly certain'' cer-tain'' Robinson would plead insanity. in-sanity. "Don't worry; we'll be prepared to take care of that," he said. Mrs. .Stoll, wife of. Berry V. Stoll, Louisville oil man, was G-MEN MAKE ARREST IN CALIFORNIA LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 12 (U.R) Thomas H. Robinson, Jr., pretty-faced kidnaper of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll, Louisville Louis-ville society woman, stepped from a big- TVVA-Douglas silver sil-ver plane today into the hands of G-men who have been scouring the country for him for 19 months. The plane arrived here from Glendale, Calif., where Robinson was captured last night, and after a five-minute wait, the kidnaper .and his escort of four department of justice agents .stepped out. They were met by six other agents who had gone to the airport. As Robinson hurried down the lane formed by G-men and photographers, photo-graphers, he lowered his smirking smirk-ing face. He wore a blue hat and brown suit. A crowd of 200 had gathered at the airport. The agents who met the Robinson Robin-son plane were headed by O. C. Dewey, director of the Louisville bureau of investigation office. Dewey said Robinson would be taken directly to the bureau headquarters head-quarters for lengthy questioning. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 12 (l'.H TheUeath penalty will be demanded de-manded for Thomas H. Robinson, Jr., latest captive in the department depart-ment of justice's "grand slam" against public enemies, who ia charged with kidnaping Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll. Louisville society socie-ty woman, U. S. District Attorney Bunk Gardner announced today. Gardner was to tonfer with Federal Judge Elwood Hamilton today after Robinson and G-men arrived here by plane from Glen-dale, Glen-dale, Calif., where he was captured cap-tured last night. Gardner said he would ask for Robinson's trial "at .the earliest possible date." but that it might be the middle of June before the trial could start. Follows Other Arrests The arrest of Robinson, whose female impersonations have kept him a step ahead of the law for a year and a half, followed closely that of Alvin Karpis of the notorious notori-ous Karpis-Rarker gang; Harry Campbell, his colleague, and ,Wil- |