KIDNAPPERS
IDENTIFIED BY VICTIM
(Eeceived January 27, 2 p.m.)
CHICAGO, January 26.
In the Criminal Courts today Jake Factor dramatically ■ identified Roger Touhy and two of his henchmen as his kidnappers. He said that while his eyes were sealed with adhesive tape it was removed once to allow him to write a not» to his wife asking her to pay
70,000 dollars ransom. He then had a clear view of his captors, he said. Touhy threatened to blow; out his .brains and cut off his ear and send it to his wife as a souvenir unless the ransom was paid. . • .
The Touhy gang were acquitted in November of charges of kidnapping William Hamm at New York.: A subsequent kidnapping, of which the victim is a young banker named Edward Bremner, is described as closely paralleling the Hamm affair. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 23, 27 January 1934, Page 12
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