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CG 62-4098 ES Mee 2. Allegation: TOUHY, EDDIE vc ADDER, WILLIAM, SHARKEY, > a _ and GUS SCHAFER (commonly known as PETER... . nn STEVENS) were arrested on July 19, 1933, .° by the Police Department at Elkhorn, Wisconsin, after ee TOUHY's car knocked down a telephone pole. SAC MELVIN PURVIS told him at Elkhorn that he was being held for the HAMM . ae kidnaping. "... within a few hours, I had handcuffs on oe my wrists for the first time. The cuffs were attached to OTe it an escape-proof safety belt around my waist, and a policeman —. held me on a chain like a dog on a leash. “McFadden, Stevens, Sharkey. and I went to Chicago that WAY oS a ae "The removal was an absolute violation of our. constitutional rights. We were taken across a state line without a court appearance, without an extradition warrant, — without our consent and without a charge against us. We were not taken before a judge or magistrate within a reasonable time, as the law provides. I demanded to see a lawyer, but r was ignored. "All of those privileges, the rights - of any person under the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, were thrown in the ash can. A suspected kidnaper, no matter how false or — skimpy the evidence against him might be, had | no rights: in those times. - "In Chicago, McFadden, Stevens, Sharkey and I were fingerprinted and photographed in the Bankers' Building — FBI offices. Each of us stood in turn before a door with a full length, one-way vision glass in it. A person on the other side of the glass panel could see us, but we couldn' t see him. mS 7 . “Among those who looked at me and the others through | - -— the Judas glass was Jake the Barber. But I never saw him. = ' J asked many times to use a telephone to call a lawyer, and the FBI agents gave me those vague, 2, 000-yards— ~in-the- Oo distance stares, _ : rn aa oT "They brought us bottles of ice ‘cold beer _-delicious!-- a and I noticed that the glass was smeared with some - sort of sticky stuff. I. guessed that the stickum would hold finger- prints and that the bottles might be planted in a house ve pee rem ee en Te, pS mete TE ene sem mem eT eae oe ome ee