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Word: elkhorn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Milwaukee, Roger Touhy and three other members of Chicago's "Terrible Touhy" gang, were charged with the kidnapping of William Hamm Jr., St. Paul brewer. Arrested at Elkhorn, Wis. fortnight ago, they were first thought to have engineered the snatching of John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, but Factor refused to identify them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Society v. Kidnappers | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

...Chicago police rounded up Roger Touhy and three members of the "Terrible Touhy" gang as suspects in the kidnapping of John Factor. The gang had been arrested at Elkhorn, Wis. for smashing into a telephone pole. Having paid a $22 fine they were about to drive on when a policeman found in their car seven pistols, a rifle, a golf bag full of ammunition, a roll of adhesive tape and 20 ft. of gauze-regular kidnapping equipment. One gangster explained: "We were up here fishing. We got one 17-lb. muskie. The guns? Why, we had those to shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Kidnappers' Week | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

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