Evening star., 1933-07-13
FACTOR RANSOMED
WITH $4,000 CASH
Tells of "UnbeIievabIe Tor.
lures" Suffered at Hands
of Kidnapers.
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At one time. Factor said, the kid
napers told him:
YOU'RE going for a ride, your
friends aren't keeping their word"
The kidnapers originally demanded
$500 900, but their demands were scaled
down, he explained
Asked If he would prosecute the kid
napers, Factor said he couldn't recog-
nize them and there is nothing he
could do.
II am in terrible shape physically
My legs are weak, my stomach is weak,
and I'm very nervous" he said.
I'm going to rest up, regain my
health and go back to my business"
Factor expressed indignation over a
charge by Attorney Overmyer, repre-
sentlng the British crown, that the
kidnapping was a fraud
"Au can say IS that I hope Over
myer and none of his family ever have
to go through what I did,
Regarding the actual kidnapping, Fac
| tor said he would have attempted to
elude the kidnapers In his automobile,
but that his wife and a woman friend
were following him in another car, and
he feared for their safety. He said
there were five men with machine guns
ne believed score were in the gang
Factors eyes tWitched after being
blindfolded for IL days.
Factor said his friends and associates
apparently did everything possible to
obtain his release.
Unshaven and disappearing in other
respects. the man who is wanted by
the British government for an alleged
s7,OOO,Ooo swindle in England. ap-
preached Policemen Cortesi and Gerard
of River Forest, in La Grange, and
announced:
I'm John Factor"
He was taken to the police station
and later was brought to his Chicago
hotel. where he told Capt. Gilbert and
Police Lieut. William Blaul that his
abductors had demanded S500,o0O ran
som and had threatened him with
machine guns and a pair of scissors
when he told them he couldn't raise
the money.
When they demanded that he get the
money from rich friends, he said he
told them that he wouldn't put them
on the spot"
Following his abduction shortly after
he left an outlying road house the night
OF July l, he said he was taken to a
basement, alive with bedbugs, and as a
result was unable to sleep. After one
night there he was removed to the farm
house, where he was held until last
night. 1t was several hours between
the time of the departure from the
farm house and his release.
Police to Seek House.
Factor was returned to Chicago in a
police squad car with his wife and son,
Jerome, 10, himself a victim of kid
napers a few months ago, and his
friend, Alderman Jacob ABBEY, who
drove to La Grange after word was
flashed to them of the international
spectators release. following.
Mrs Factor rushed into the La
Grange police station, threw her arms
around her husband, kissed him efu-
sively and stood between him and
photographers who had been preparing
to take his picture.
Factors release wrote flnis to search
that extended almost to all corners OF
the United States. He was reported
to have been in Oklahoma. in Texas,
en- route to Cuba, on the Atlantic sea
board, and on his way to Mexico. The
British government charged his abduc-
ton was q hoax, arranged to prevent
his extradition to England, but mean
while local police held to theory that
members of the Roger Touhy gang OF
Chicago were responsible for his dis
appearance.
yestigators who theorized that the
Toughy gang abducted Factor, said that
he expected Mayor John Kelly to order
out 200 men to search for the mouse
where Factor was held.