Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-19 | Page 1 | Hamm Kidnap Trial Pending

IRe Ready to Testify I 1 R t I c WILLIAM HAMM Il JR HAMM KIDNAP TRIAL PENDING I Elaborate Precautions Taken i to Keep Identity of I Witnesses Secret I 8 a Dr United Press Pre ST. ST PAUL Oct The 19 fed federal ral government is forming its lines for forthe forthe the he next battle In the war on crime barely arely three weeks away the away the trial of f Roger The Te Terrible Touhy Touby and three iree ot other r Chicago t a o gangsters the fr of at William Wilham Hamm mm Jr r. r Readiness to go to trial now was announced today by District Attorney George Sullivan who added that the government did not anticipate any delay elay when the case cose is called November November Novem- Novem ber 7 We hope to send Touhy and his friends to join George Machine Gun Kelly Celly for a life term on Alcatraz island in San Francisco bay bar he com corn Like Kelly kidnaper of George Urchel Urschel Ur Ur- schel chel of Oklahoma City the thc Touhy gangsters were reached with Indictments indict indict- ments under the so-called so Lindbergh law iw For weeks the four have been the forgotten men of the Ramsey county jail here Elaborate precautions h have been taken aken b by the government to prevent names ames of key witnesses becoming known cnown Hamm will bo be a witness So will live five Walworth county Wisconsin of- of including the Elkhorn rookie policeman who was dumbfounded when he learned the men he had invited to come along for a traffic violation were gang notables