March 06 1941
Santa Cruz Sentinel, Santa Cruz, California, Thursday, March 06, 1941
Onetime Stanford Scholar Nabbed As Hotel Thief
San Francisco, March 5 (AP).—Paul Buttenweiser, 42, onetime scholar at the University of Cincinnati and later a research associate in psychology at Stanford University, was a prisoner in the San Francisco county jail tonight after pleading guilty to two hotel robberies.
He admitted holding up the Worth hotel and the Broadmoor, both of San Francisco. In superior court today he asked Judge Robert L. McWilliams for probation. The judge will decide on this March 12.
Police Inspector Max Reznik reported that Buttenweiser also had been identified as the man who, on last December 19, bound and gagged the night clerk at the Cardinal hotel in Palo Alto and robbed the hotel of $30.
March 21 1941
The San Bernardino County Sun, San Bernardino, California, Friday, March 21, 1941
Ex-Stanford Scholar Sentenced to Prison
By Associated Press
San Francisco, March 20.—Because a probation officer's investigation brought a report he had a “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” personality, Paul Buttenweiser, 42, brilliant one-time Stanford psychology research associate, today was sentenced to San Quentin prison on two counts of hotel robbery.
Buttenweiser, graduated from University of Cincinnati with A.B. and B.S. degrees, and who obtained his Ph.D. degree from Stanford in 1935, pleaded guilty to robbing two San Francisco hotels with a cap pistol and potato masher.
