LIFE OF CRIME

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 January 1939, Page 5

LIFE OF CRIME

YOUNG AMERICAN AIRMEN UNMASKED MANY ROBBERIES COMMITTED. WHILE PURSUING SOCIAL ROUND. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. CLEVELAND, January 20. Numerous thefts from various parts of the 'country cbmmitteed by two highly personable young American aviators at various times in recent months while house guests of Julien Inglefield, a retired British Air Corps captain and a resident here, finally led to their apprehension and the disclosure of a remarkable dual life, in which social elegancies were skilfully mingled with holdups and other varieties of robbery under arms. Payton Wilson, aged 20, and Quentin, aged 22, brothers, posing as members of a well-known meat-packing family, met Mrs Inglefield last September at air races here, where Captain Inglefield was officiating. They quickly became intimate friends of the Inglefield household and soon expressed a desire to marry the Inglefield’s two daughters. Mrs Inglefield, however, forbade the engagements till she could meet the youngsters’ parents. They, in the meantime, pleasantly idled days away, flying to nearby fields or staying with the Inglefields for two or three days at a time. They committed robberies in between. On one occasion they left Inglefield for an hour and committed a holdup nearby, where they stole 95 dollars. They robbed motorists, guests at hotels and burgled homes • from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. They committed eight robberies totalling 5500 dollars in New Orleans alone. Their car numbers ultimately betrayed them.