THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 17, 1934

• Alice Speed-Stoll kidnapping for ransom
• Found alive and returned home
• Thomas H. Robinson, Jr.

The top of the front page has a three column headline: "MRS. STOLL IS FOUND ALIVE; INSANE KIDNAPPER NAMED; HIS WIFE GOT THE RANSOM" with subheads and photo of Stoll. (see images) Much more on pages 2 & 3, loads of text. Always nice to have notable events in history reported in this World famous publication.
Complete with all 46 pages, light toning, a little spine wear, generally nice.

Background: The survival and rescue of 28-year-old Louisville heiress Alice Speed Stoll on October 16, 1934—six days after being abducted from her home by a bogus telephone repairman demanding a $50,000 ransom—sparked one of the 1930s' most high-profile federal manhunts and ultimately left a transformative philanthropic legacy. Her captor, Thomas H. Robinson Jr., led J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI on an intensive 18-month nationwide chase during the initial enforcement era of the Federal Kidnapping Act, leading to a legal saga where President Harry S. Truman commuted Robinson's death sentence just 33 hours before his scheduled 1945 execution. Beyond its place in Depression-era crime history, the abduction's most enduring outcome was shaped by Stoll's resilience: after surviving the traumatic ordeal, she lived until 1996 and bequeathed over $50 million to Louisville's Speed Art Museum, establishing one of the largest art endowments in American history.