Evening star., 1934-01-26

was kidnapped and I was trying to get
him back. The voice replied. Well.
don't you know they kidnapped your
SOM I replied that didn't know
The voice said, Well. we'll let you
of easy for 5000, 0,000.'"
Factor said he sat up all Of his first
night in captivity and slept the next
night In a vermin-infested bed. During
all Of his abduction period he never
took of his shoes and could do but
little walking now because Of infection
in his feet.
was seized, Factor said, and accused
him of throwing big roll of dough into
his car to hide it. Factor denied that.
On the second day. he said, the man
identified as Touhy came to him and
said. well. you're going for . ride;
your friends are talking too much"
II replied, My God! Is this the end?'
and the man who was kind to me
patted my hand and said: Don't
worry Then they put me in an
automobile, drove for about IS to SO
minutes and took me to the second
floor of another house"
Factor identified q picture Of Willie
Sharkey, since q suicide, as one Of the
men who held him for 100000 ran
som, but settled with payment Of
$4,000 and promise of $50,000 more.
Home Life Revealed.
Factor gave his age as Al, said he
had two children. Albert j., 8. and
Jerome. 20, the latter a victim Of kid
napers last April and gave his resi-
dence as the La Sale Hotel Factor
was kept in the hotel under heavy
guard, with a mirror arrangement
through which he could watch the cor
ridors leading to his room, pending ex-
tradition to England on q 100000
stock fraud charge.
The international market speculator
then plunged into a detailed story Of
his abduction at an. last July l rs
he left the Dells roadhouse on the
Northwest side with his wife, Jerome
and half dozen friends.
I'm the car in which I rode" he re
counted. were Jerome, driving the
machine: myself in the middle and
Al Epstein, friend, on my right. A
short distance from the Dells our auto
mobile was stopped by another ma
chine"
Men with machine guns, pistols and
rifles. he said, swarmed about the auto
mobile, dragged him into one Of their
machines and drove away with him for
IL days Of captivity and torture.
Handed school room pointer, Fac
tor traced on . diagram Of the Dells
road house the spot where he was kid
naped.
Four men, IN the first Of two cars
containing the kidnap squad, pushed
him down in their car, blindfolded him
and took him to q basement q few
minutes away, Factor testified. One Of
them said:
Putting in Basement"
"Well, Jack, this is what we call
putting them down In the basement. 4"
The hdnapers demanded 100000 as
ransom. he testified. When he told
them he was not that wealthy, he said,
one Of his captors said:
well. Jack, we'll make you q good
deal. You know lots of people with
money. Tell US who they are and we'll
make you q good deal"
Factor gave a detailed description Of
his basement prison.
I'VE went down six or seven steps"
he said, Ito a concrete floor. When
they took me to the bath room, we
turned first to the right, then to the
left, avoided something, and opened .
door,"
He described the position Of all the
furniture in the room, and located
window. Sunlight coming through it,
he said. made glimmer he could rec
ognize through his blindfold.
When Factor protested he could not
raise the half million dollars his cap
tors demanded, he testified, their
spokesman said:
Better put your thinking cap on.
I'm going to blow your brains out If
YOU don't"