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t Sc 1) Statesman, Salem, Or- WecL, Not. 18. 1953 A-' Mrs. Greenlease Faces Kidnapers in Court; Hall Reports Details of Crime By LARRY BALL . r KANSAS CITY (Jl Mrs. Rob ert C. Greenlease faced. the kid sap killers of her only son in fed eral court Tuesday and told how the slayer lied to her about little Bobby's safety. . . It was the bereaved mother's first public statement since her -six-year-old son was snatched from his school and brutally killed in a $600,000 ransom plot ' ' Her dramatic appearance on the stand was the second sensation of the day as the government neared the end of its effort to send Carl Austin Hall, 34. and . Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady, 41, to death in the as chamber. - Hall's confession, read in stark detail by an FBI agent earlier, revealed for the first time the kidnaper's claiki that he had $592,000 of the ransom money in his possession when he was ar rested in St. Louis. 'Half of the money is still missing. Question of Money It raised new questions about what happened to the money. The St. Louis Police Board immediate ly announced plans to reopen its Investigation of the. mystery. . Hall's confession said his twoi suitcases with the money were not Sexy Songs Said Too Hot' For Royalty By JAMES BACOV LOS ANGELES UP) The sexy songs of Eartha Kitt Monday were -held too hot for the King and pueen of Greece, the mayor, city councilmen and scores of- irate so ciety matrons. Kitt lyrics to such songs , as "I Want to be Evil" and "Santa Baby" kicked up the biggest ruck us in City Hall since the last at tack of the smog. Councilman Gordon R. Hahn even wanted an official investiga tion of the Hollywood co-ordinating committee which provided the en tertainment at the official civic banquet lor the visiting monarchs Saturday night. Said Mayor Norris Poulson: MI was extremely disappointed. I per sonally found some of the lyrics offensive. I feel the Hollywood co ordinating committee owes an apology to the King and Queen." Said ' councilman Hahn: "It would have been better if singers like Lily Pons and Jeannette Mac Donald had appeared. Miss Kitt's songs started it off on a low level. I always liked Frankie Laine but I don't think he should have sung "Jezebel. " Said Miss Kitt: "I can't under stand it I'm just an innocent lit tle girl. I didn't think it was possi ble to shock politicians." The mayor's office said that scores of "top society people of Los Angeles ' and Pasadena are phoning here. The mayor's just ! sick." The Hollywood co-ordinating committee said it had merely en deavored "to present representa tive and typical American talent of all kinds." The City Council tabled Hahn's move for an investigation. - taken to the police, station with him when he was arrested by for mer LL Louis Shoulders and Pa trolman Elmer Dolan. Dolan denied that from the stand. He said be helped Shoulders put the bags in the police car and take them to the station. - ') Not Called as Witness ' Shoulders. t" resigned from the force in the midst of the In vestigation, has not been called as a witness. He said in SL Louis he had nothing whatever to say about Hall's statement By Wednesday the case is ex pected to reach the jury of West ern Missouri farmers and busi nessmen who will decide the fate of the killers.' The pair's guilt al ready has been admitted. All the jury can do : is recommend the death penalty or some lighter sen tence. :" .-; r T Closure Shortly .; - "' ' U. S. District Attorney Edward L. Scheufler said he expected to finish bis case within an hour aft er court convenes Wednesday. Aft er that the court appointed de fense lawyer, Roy K. Dietrich, said he would have perhaps half a dozen witnesses. : Mrs. Greenlease spoke in low, hardly K audible- tones,, about the tragic day when, a nun from the French Institute of Notre Dame de Sion called to tell her Bobby had been taken away by a strange woman Mrs. Heady. Then, prompted by ; Scheufler, she told how she talked with the killer, HalL four times on the tele phone. He was trying to arrange the ransom pickup. She said he assured her again and again that her boy was safe and would be returned within 24 hours after the kidnapers got the ransom money. Saght to Talk te Son . Mrs. Greenlease told 'how she tried to get a chance to talk with Bobby on the phone. - He was al ready dead, but the family's hopes were still alive at that time. Hall's confession had given the jury a few hours earlier a grue some picture of the slaying in a stubble field near Kansas City. Robert L. .Ledterman, business associate of Greenlease, told how he and other partners of the mil lionaire auto dealer tried to deal with the kidnaper. They finally made contact, left the $600,000 ransom in a duffle bag under a bridge east of Kansas City, then waited vainly to get Bobby back safely. . . Town Marshal Confesses to Robbing Store GOLD END ALE W The Gold-1 endale night marshal. Dean Bay- has confessed Klirkitat Coimtv i Sheriff E. C. Kaiser said Tues-j day! a state liquor store, safe rob- j bery and thefts from a garage, service station and hardware store here. Bay, 25. and the father of two small children, was arrested Mon day, the sheriff Said. He had held the job the past five months. Prosecutor Thurman Ward filed four counts of grand larceny against Bay with the county clerk late Tuesday. The arrest followed discovery j on his automobile of four wheels I which had been stolen from a ga-1 rage here and repainted, the sher iff said. Much Loot Found After Bay. was booked. Sheriff Kaiser reported, almost . "enough loot for. a hardware store" was found locked in a closet in his! apartment. , "There were ' shotgun shells, H 1 - - uidimcia, m iiiuvic tau:era anu iiu- j merous other .items, the sheriff said. More than $1,500 was taken from the safe at the state liquor store here on Sept, 5. In his confession, Bay insisted he "did the job alone," Sheriff Kaiser said. Wife Surprised Bay's wife was greatly surprised when officers went to question her Monday after the arrest ar" agreed to accompany Sheriffs Deputy Harold Harris to La , Grande. Ore.. Monday. Bay for merly lived in La Grande. Yakima County Chief Deputy! Sheriff H. T. Armstrong and the; Hood River, Oregon, sheriff were; also expected to join in question- j ing the arrested man. "Bay was apparently unaware we were closing in on him until Monday morning, Sheriff Kaiser said. 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