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4 one occasions between 1920 and 1927, the files of the Joliet Police Department fail - tv eubstantiate this. In connection with the investigation of the Bremer kid- neping case, it was ascertained in January, 1935, from Matt Kersch, owner of the Riverside Tavern, Aurora, Illinois, that Volney Davis, who was sought in that caso, tad apparently gone to Joliet, Illinois, to contact Francis Curry. # reliable private citizen, a long-time resident of Joliet, Illinois, reported in 1935 that Curry had been associated with underworld characters and Provided rideouts and gave other eid to many hoodlums and gangsters. With reference to the activities of Eugene Bernstein in behalf of se “ subject, it is noted that he is an attormey with offices at 77 West eashington o ve Street, Chicago, Illinois. He resides at 523k South Ingleside Street in the, same city. ST PS Ben * rt. When Rocco Di Grazio, a self~admitted member of the Chicago underworld syndicate, was interviewed in 195, he advised that he was represented. by attorney Eugene Bernstein. Powe fee iT ': It has also been ascertained that Bernstein ‘is attorney for Sack Gust, another well-knowm criminal in Chicago. ; ae In connection with William Scott Stewart, who is mentioned in. “the Board e.. of Parole file as being an attorney active in behalf of De Lucia, it is noted + that he maintains offices at 77 West Washington Street, Chicago. According to’ an article which appeared in the Chicago Tribune for December 1, 193, Willian‘) Scott Stewart is described as an attorney "who has defended a number of. notorious | criminals, expressing disapproval of the shoot-to-kill policy, charged that the government is usurping the powers of local police, and criticized Attorney General: 7 Homer Cummings as *meddling with affairs outside his province'." Stewart is. 4 ©. <3 further quoted in this newspaper article as stating: "There seems to be an. vo epidemic of this sort of thing. The public is being regaled every few days with, : pictures on the front page of the newspapers of criminals who have been shot down |: by the Federal agents." in this connection an editorial in the Columbus Evening ~ Dispatch on December 4, 1934, indicated that Stewart's reasons for objecting to Federal officers killing criminalswere that it took a reliable source of income.’ i fron such attomeys. . pote. Stewart has defended such individuals as Roger Touhy and nenbers of. ‘his “3 gang, who received long prison terms. In March, 193), the Chicago Division of the, Fal received information concerning an alleged kidnaping of Jerry Horan by the’. Touhy gang. The informant indicated that Touhy had forced Horan to call his aa = etary, equestin? ne oO ODtain $15,000 and pay it to William Scott § 3 = Horan, however, when interviewed, denied having been kidnaped. There is, never- ~~ theless, soma substantiation from other sources that Stewart may have been involved | in such a transaction. JAY os age -4-