Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-11-18 | Page 3 | 2 Masquerading Girls Convicted in U. S. Court for Car Theft

2 Masquerading Girls Convicted In U. U S. S Court for Car Theft Neatly dressed in a brown skirt and white shirt with her brunette hair lair curling attractively around her head and g giving gring ring little evidence of the masculine disguise which caused confused witnesses to call her alternately he and she Martha Corinne Stout 27 and her blond alond wife Ida Louise Bright 24 had been convicted Saturday I In in federal district court of havIng having hayIng hav hay ing stolen an automobile in MesquIte Mesquite Mes- Mes quIte Nev and driving it to Beaver Bea Bea- ver Sentence was set for Nov No 25 Douglas J. J D D. Dwyer 40 Los An An- geles book salesman testified that ho he gave the two women known to him as Mr and Mrs Stout a aride ride east from Los Angeles He Hc Miss Stout was dressed in a aman's amans amans aman's amans aman's mans man's brown suit wore a mans man's tie tic shoes and hat At Mesquite on June 17 the trio stopped for lunch Mr Dwyer took two sips of a cup of coffee sitting on the table when he returned to his lunch after a a brief absence That said Mr Dwyer is all allI I remember When next the book salesman awoke he was lying on a bed in a Mesquite hotel with 1300 1300 several suits and his automobile missing The two women abandoned the automobile in Beaver and were arrested arrested ar ar- rested several days later at Miss Stouts Stout's home in Baltimore by F FBI B BI I agents and returned to Salt Lake City for trial