Evening star., 1933-08-17
K|DNAP MANHUNT
IN WISCONSIN ENDS
Chicago Police Return From
Resort Area; Factor Guarded
Against Reprisal.
Nv the Associated Pre.s

BY the Associated Press.
| CHICAGO, August ia concerted
drive to round up kidnapers that began
with mobilization of 300 police at sub
, urban La Grange apparently had ended
! today
Back from Southern Wisconsin came
I so heavily armed detectives, with word
that they had searched dozens Of known
gangster hideawayS in the Summer re-
sort district and found them deserted.
/ Although police officials declined to
comment officially, opinions were ex-
pressed that leaders of the Touhy gang
and members of an alleged kidnapping
syndicate from the Southwestern sec
tion Of the Nation had fed the country.
| Reports were current that Chicago po-
| lice had asked for several airportS to be
watched to prevent fleeing desperadoes
from reaching Mexico by airplane.
Factor Heavily Guarded.
Meanwhile, heavy police guard was
maintained over John Factor. millionaire
| market plunger, against possible ven
geance for his involuntary part in the
unsuccessful effort to trap his kidnapers.
| A death threat telephoned to Factor.
who already repeatedly has yielded
more than 100000 to kidnapers who
seized first his son, Jerome, and then
himself, brought the police detail to
his door and bitter complaint from
him
IT was reluctant to assist the po-
lice," Factor said. referring to the
| foiled entrapment plans. Now that
| they've failed, I'm left out on limb,
considered by my kdnapers to have
| broken my word to pay off the balance
i of the ransom and to shield them"
Local Police Out of Hunt.
While Factor, palpably frightened in
/ his hotel apartment by the turn OF
/ events after the failure of 300 police,
aided by airplanes and elaborate plan
ming to nab his kidnapers, protested po-
lice horned in" on the final pay off,
| the Wisconsin search proceeded with
! out aid from local authorities.
| The squads swept through dozen
resort towns, spurred by belief their
quarries. lost at La Grange might seek
refuge there, and hopes that additional
suspects in the kdnapings of William
Hamm. jr., St. Paul brewer, and
Chafles Urschell. Oklahoma City oil
millionaire, might be apprehendeo.
Hamm has said he was taken by ms
| captors to that territory, and Federal
! agents, it was learned, for several
weeks have been investigating through
out the region. 1t has Summer homes
of many Chicagoans, and gangsters
| have been going there OF late Win IN
creasing frequency.
Know Ransom Collectors.
Though chagrined over the fiasco
which attended elaborate plans to nap
the kidnapers, Chief of Detectives VIII
liam Schoemaker said his men dis
guised as the cab driver and telegraph
messenger who handed over a bogus
ransom package to the suspects recog-
nized them as gangsterS. He refused
to reveal their identities.
The pair fed it was learned with
about slO0 in marked money. from
Factor, one getting lift from a farmer
out of the territory In which the small
army of officers were hunting them and
the other losing himself in the thick
woods. Earlier reports said the kid
napers obtained $500.
Sergt. Michael Naughton OF the police
airplane detail which directed the en-
trapment plans said a last-minute
change of instructions on the part OF
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