Evening star., 1933-08-16
|K|DNAP BAND HUNT.
BY CHICAGO POLICE
GOES TO WISCONSIN
so Officers Rushed to Resort
Region to Renew Quest
for Escaped Pair.
NEW EVIDENCE LINKS
TWO ABDUCTION GANGS
Bailey and Touhy Connection Indi-
Gated as Elaborate Trap
Proves Futile.
BY the Associated Press.


By the Associated Press
CHICAGO, August ia mobili1ed
kidnap drive that began with the
greatest man hunt in Chicago's history
extended today to the Southern Wis
consin hideaways of the Touhy gang
and its subsidiary kidnapping syndicate.
Twoscore sharpshooters of the Chi
cago Police Department were rushed
into the territory with orders to corral
gangsters and kidnapers against whom
detectives have been gathering evi-
dence for weeks.
In Chicago a death threat to John
Factor, millionaire speculator, was the
kidnaperS' answer to the attempt of
800 city, State and Federal officers to
capture two deSperadoeS who were met
by police with bogus ransom package
in a Western suburb yesterday. The
suspects escaped after a gun battle.
Factor Denies Aid
Protected by a heavy guard at his
hotel, Factor insisted he had no part
in the police trap but that police had
tapped his telephone wires, and thus
learned of the ransom delivery plan.
Factor was kidnapped several weeks
ago and the money arranged to be de-
livered yesterday was part Of the ran
som agreed upon. The bogus package
contained $500 in marked money.
Factor could tell us the identity Of
the kidnapers, but he won't" said Chief
of Detectives William Shoemaker. Il
don't blame him much. He probably
would be killed in an hour if the kid
naperS believed there was any danger
of his doing So"
Although police were secretive as to
the exact destination of the Wisconsin
hunt, it was indicated they believed the
two men who escaped from the Factor
ransom delivery trap were in the Wis
consin resort district.
Area Regular Hideout.
Several kidnap victims, including
William Hamm, jr., st. Paul brewer,
believed they were held captive in the
region. Roger Touhy and three hench-
men have been charged with the
100000 Hamm kidnapping. Gangsters
reputedly have hidden out in the resort
section for years.
The notorious Touhy gang, four men,
bers of which have been named as the
S1UUUUU hiulldpS1S VI Wlllldiil I1dliliil,
jr., St. Paul brewer, are known to make
their headquarters in the region.
George Bugs" Moran, gang leader
dethroned by the killing of seven fol-
lowers in the st. Valentines day mas
sacre, also has operated there.
U. S. Grants Authority.
The police mobilization into the
nearby State was led by Lieut.. Andrew
Barry, in charge of the kidnap di
vision Of the Chicago Police Depart
ment Authority for the expedition
was given by the Federal Government
Detectives under Barry were said to
have Investigated in the district for
weeks. disguised as farmers and tour
lists. Several hide-aways of gangsters
and suspected kidnapers were reported
to have been found
A massive police trap carefully set
for a gang of willy kidnapers snapped
futilly yesterday, but authorities today
claimed new evidence of interlocking
connections between organized abduc-
tors for ransom in far-fung sections Of
the country.
Three days of preparation. the blue
printed scheming of city, county and
Federal authorities, efforts of 800 Sc
lected possemen from city, suburban
and Stat attorneys forces, wit h
wireless squad cars directing and air
planes soaring over the scene, went
for naught yesterday as two members
of gang which sought a further $50
900 ransom installment from John
Factor, recently abducted market
Spcculator careened away In a burst
If gun fire.
But out of the unhappy denouement
which saw the suspects escape with
package representing final payment for
Factors release, authorities had for
their work a sedan, abandoned by their
quarries, two men in detention who
claimed they were mixers, and six
others seized in a saloon as result OF
clues uncovered in the exciting, bullet
punctured pursuit.
Gang Link Is Indicated.
Police reports indicated Richard
CYuma) Philips, known here as an
underworld go-between; Vernon Miller,
one OF the notorious Harvey Bailey
| gang of Texas; Tommy Touhy, brother
OF Roger Touhy, held for the kidnap-
ing of Hamm and George Kelly, said by
authorities to be wanted in the UrSchel
kidnapping case, were the parties for
whom the trap was laid. This informa-
ton was regarded as possibly linking
closely tne various gangs responsible
for major kidnapings in the Middle
| and Far West during the past year.
! Only two men were believed in the
| fleeing car, however.
An overanXious motor squad car,
| which forgot orders to cruise lazily near
| the negotiation area, north of suburban
La Grange, and spurted ahead at the
signal which was to start the huge net
closing in, was blamed for the fiasco.
| 1t got for a moment between a police
| machine gunner and the kidnap auto
mobile, forcing the policeman to with
hold his fire. The suspects drove wild
| ly off and finally lost themselves in the
heavily wooded region Of the Western
Cook County forest preserve area.
Factors Wires Tapped.
| Tapped wires on Factors telephone
/ line started off the great manhunt Po-
! lice learned demands for additional
thousands of dollars recently were made
on the market plunger who is accused
of fleeing several millions of dollars
from British investors and who was
released few weeks ago after yielding
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