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rf . Lee ee me ae -{ ee ee ee ee ene ace memenn eA em Me atte yx cera en ate Be ee 4 - . “the. Chicago ‘Police Department andy hv: ol of the Cook County, Illinois, States ._. ORES Attorney's ewed TOUHY, MC FADDEN, SHARKEY and. ffic STEVENS. a identified SHARKEY. The police ~~): :0 00 officers iden ed the others. Newspaper photographers took pictures and the four prisoners were fingerprinted.: 2:7 sa QD exanined the guns, etc., taken ‘from ye. TOUHY's car by the police. ee A Da rere oe ‘On the afternoon of July 20, 1933, TOUBY and his - three friends were taken to Chicago by the Chicago Police Department. The agents accompanied the party. Upon reaching Chicago they were confined in the City Hail. They were --. photographed by the police and again fingerprinted. ae The files of this Office fail to reflect that either waivers of custody or removal were obtained from any one of the above subjects. A Western Union telegram from Chicago to the Bureau dated July "SPECIAL AGENTS THIS OFFICE WITH AND OTHER POLICE OBTAINED CUSTODY _—_ ELKHORN WISCONSIN AND THEY WERE HELD FOR GOVE AT POLICE i,t DEPARTMENT CHICAGO STOP ON TWENTY FIRST INSTANT SCOTT STEWART ”"' ATTORNEY FOR PRISONERS ENDEAVORED TO HAVE PRISONERS RELEASED — ON WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS STOP STATE COURT REFUSED TO HEAR. MATTER DUE TO LACK OF JURISDICTION BECAUSE PRISONERS HELD. _ Further indication that no waivers were obtained appears in the following excerpts from Chicago newspapers: - “The decision to return the gang here was made over : ~~ protest of TOUHY's attorney WILLIAM SCOTT STEWART of Chicago, | who motored into Elkhorn in the wake of Chief SCHOEMAKER and . other Chicago authorities, protesting against any proposed - = infraction of his clients’ legal rights. Attorney STEWART's ~ protests went for naught, however, when the Federal Agents, — headed by R. T. AMIS of the United States Bureau of Investiga- tion, announced the gang was wanted for violation of the Federal Anti-Kidnapping Statute and that extradition waivers hd did not figure in the case. (Chicago Tribune, 7/21/3 ~4-