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» ~~ "back to-thy hotel room about* ;1115 p. m. (CST). { “This really breaks me up and I’m very sorry to hear it. just hope they find the ern, a > The diminutive Touhy had devoted most of his time since ‘his release to his recently pub- ‘lished book, “The Stolen Years,” his story .of his life. i_ Touhy, Miller, and Ray ‘Brennan, a reporter for the’ Chicago Sun-Times and a co author of the book, had .dis- cussed the works earlier in the evening at the Chicago Press Club in downtown Chi- cago. : Touhy and Miller left the Press Club and were return- ing home when the shooting occurred, : ‘They walked from Miller's car to the home of Touhy’'s sister, Ethel Alesia at 125 Lotus st., and were climbing the steps when five shotgun blasts rang out. Touhy pitched forward on his face. The pellets tore a large chunk of flesh from his thigh. Miller, who is permitted to carry a pistol, whirled and fired five shots before he col- dapsed. + The blasts tore out the glass front of the door, the transom over the door and riddled the hallway ceiling. Touhy's sister and her hus- band, Henry, rushed out but said they didn’t see the gun men. ( Touhy mumbled that he was shot by two men who said they were policemen, his sister told newsmen. All available squads of po- lice ringed the neighborhood in an attempt to trap the gun- men. i Touhy was semi-conscious: ‘when police rushed him to a. hospital in a squad car. He’ 'died on the operating table a: . Short time later from loss of; ‘blood, ; [Touhy died in an oxygen tent in-St. Anne’s Hospital as Detective Chief John Ashcher ood by in hope of question- ing him, the Chicago Tribune: Press Service reported. LPolice were unable ogres cele eee - we eee — Oe Se Oy OE I ns a . ~-. - ---- — P, - He was back behind bars’ in “{Miller, ‘Who reéentli had ttenr—werking er a racing ublication, + is jong-time ness in Touhy’s behalf in a; habeas corpus hearing before! ‘the late Federal District Court} ‘Judge John P. Barnes in 1954 which resulted in Touhy’s tem. ‘porary release from prison. 49 hours after the U.S. Court of Appeals reversed Barnes’|. decision.) | - tee Miller was taken to a dif. ferent hospital, where his con- H dition was reported critical, Factor has filed # 3-million- dollar libel suit against Touhy and others on the basis of Touhy’s book. Brennan hurried to the hos- pital where Touhy died, He told a reportet: | “I wish I had not written the stinking book. Roger| would be alive today.” Brennan said Touhy never felt better. “He was cheerful}: and he had no premonition that this was going to happen.” Brennan said he and the representative of the book's publisher, Richard Brown, et Touhy and Miller at the fPress Club about -6-p.-m. H fjaid Touhy had three bottles f beer and some appetizers nd that they chatted until ROGER TOUHY . « blasted by shotgun around 9:15 p. m., when Touhy: and Miller left. ' Lt uby was sentenced | 09 sears for the Factor id: naping and was given anot we 199 years for his part 4a mass prison escape that gave, {him short-lived freedém be- \fore FBI agents recaps NSE Chicszo. be TE Clemency action by. Gov, | William G. Stratton, maBe hig Touhy maintained he nocent of thé Factor kidnap, ‘ling, contend4d he was con- Ivicted on pesjured testimony, C Chicego, policeman. Me a a jeader of the Touhy gang that waged a vendetta jwith the more powerful Al Capone syndicate during pro- ibition days. a hree of Touhy’s brothers ‘were shot to death and one ied of natural causes. a One brother, James Jr., was shot to death in a robbery at- tempt in 1917. Another, John, was fatally shot 10 years later in one of the numerous gun battles between the Touhy gang and the Al Capone mob. A third brother, Joe, was slain m adie Touhy died in 1945. Tom Touhy was paroled in 1947 from Leavenworth Prison after serving 11 years ‘for Minneapolis bank robbery..g, last was_reported in av” a partis invalid, agi oS a atid parole possible. ~ : a ia ° § 8D: Touhy was one of six sens a