The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-04
FBI Opens Drive
 For Tuohy Gang
Connecticut Joins Nation in Manhunt for Mob Which
 Fled Illinois Prison

to notify their draft board Of a
 change in address, The Federal
 warrants, issued october l9, were
 the signal for the FBI to partici-
 pate in the nationwide msnhunk
 In the prison break, one peniten-
 tiary guard was shot and wounded
 and another severely beaten,
 Touhy led the escape, and, armed
 with a scissors, slashed prison
 garbage truck driver, commandeered
 the truck, and drove across the
 prison communications system by
 cutting telephone wires, Banghart, armed with a gun, accompanied by
 the other convicts, took ladder
 from the mechanical shop, then drove the commandeered truck to a corner of the prison, where several Of the convictS opened fire on a tower guard.
 The guard was disabled, but not seriously injured, The felonS then scaled the wall using a guard as a shield, and stopped momentarily to take two rifles and a pistol from the injured guard. One of the convtctS then slid down the outer side of the wall and opened the outside tower stairway door, allowing the other convicts to escape. All of them made their getaway in prison guards car which was later found aband- oned on the outskirts of Chicago.
 Touchy and Banghart, members of a notorious gang of killers, kid napers and bootleg operators who had ruled the Chicago northwest side of the underworld for years, were serving 99 year sentences for the Kidnapping and torture of John Jake the Barber" Factor on July 1, 1883. Roger Touhy, 4b, the leader of the gang, engineered the Factor Kidnapping in cooperation with his machine -gunning associate Bang hart, who is 42-years old,
 The other five fugativeS are Ed ward Darlak, S2, sentenced October l4, 1885, to serve concurrent Sen- tences of l99 years for murder and one year to life for robbery; St, Clair McTnerney, 30, serving life sentence at Joliet as an habitual criminal. having been returned to Joliet on March 9, 1887, for viola tion of parole from previous one year to life sentence, Mathew Nell son, 40, received at Joliet on Mo- vember 2l, leS9, for robbery and serving a sentence of one year to life as an habitual criminal; Will liam Stewart, 43, serving concurrent terms of one to % years and 20 years for robbery and James O'Connor, 35, who was received on sentence of one year to life at Joliet, February ?, 1928, on a charge of robbery and assault to kill. o'Con- nor had made two successful es- capes previously from the States vile Penitentiary; one in 1882 and the other in 1886.
 Touhy is described by Mir. Hoover as short, husky, with muscular shoulders, blue eyes and dark chest nut and gray hair. He Is five feet, five Inches tall and weighs approx l40 pounds, He has ten dency to jiggle his head nervously as he talks because Of once broken vertebrae. The tip Of his right thumb has been amputated, his lower lip turns under and his nose turns slightly to the left.
 Banghart has light chestnut and gray hair. is five feet, eight inches tall, weight l56 pounds. has blue eyes and a light complexion. At one time he was an amateur avia- tor. His eyes have definite "owl- like" appearance and he has a small red mole on his left cheek.
 Mir Hoover has warned law en- forcement officers to be on the alert for the fugitives and has asked pri- vate citizens to communicate with the nearest field office of the FBI if any information comes to their attention concerning their present 
 The public is requested to advise the Federal Bureau of Investigation
 by telephone, New Haven 7-l2l7, or by letter addressed to Room 5l0 by letter addressed to Room 5l0, Trust Company Building, New Ha- ven, of any information relative to these individuals.
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