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ob 4 Te ee 2: we Pails &z. ae ... CG 62-4098 - er ee ae . : me ee ee eee ee meee lene wee © / - C. (3 "a telegram to the Bureau captioned (i Bo ET AL; KIDNAPING; WILLIAM HAMM, Jr. - VICTIM" dated July 24, = 1933, advised the Bureau that complaints and warrants in." the HAMM case had been authorized by the United States’ Attorney, Milwaukee, and that TOUHY, et al, "departed Chicago , under heavy guard consisting of two squad cars Chicago = Police Department and two cars Special Agents, one Special Agent in each squad car with officers and prisoners proceeding to Elkhorn, Wisconsin." |. ae : = ae 3. Allegation: "The government took us in chains from | a ; Elkhorn to the County Jail at Milwaukee. . Weeks of hell followed. We were maximun- security prisioners, in separate cells. No visitors; no consultations with lawyers; no visits by families; no radio - broadcasts; no newspapers. ~ _ ; "Y went into the jail in excellent physical shape. When I came out, I was 25 pounds lighter, three vertebrae in my upper spine were fractured and seven of my teeth had been . knocked out. Part of the FBI's rehabilitation-of-prisoners system, I supposed. All of the men who gave me the treatment. were strangers to me. Toe ne They questioned me day and night, abused me, beat ‘me up and demanded that I confess the Hamm kidnaping. Never ~ was I allowed to rest for more than half an hour. If I was asleep when a team of interrogators arrived at my cell, — they would slug me around and bang me against the wall. I . trained myself to sleep for 20 minutes, and be on my feet ~ for the questioners. . re _.. ? . '"§% eouldn't have confessed if I had wanted to. I. didn't know what Hamm looked like, how the ransom was paid, ._ where he was held, or anything else. Neither did McFadden, Stevens or Sharkey. But that seemingly made no difference. . “On August 13, a federal grand jury in St. Paul. indicted all of us for kidnaping. "Jangle, jangle, jangle, we went in our chains to the Ramsey County Jail in St. Paul. The beatings stopped, but not the maximum security. We were allowed no visitors, including lawyers. Our trial date was approaching, and we were totally unprepared.’