Show THUGS FACE DEATH IN CASE GASE Touhy's Counsel Claims Persecution Persecution Persecution Per Per- in Abduction CHICAGO Jan 27 21 UP Death UP-Death Death In n the electric chair loomed over four Chicago gangsters Saturday with only William Scott t Stewart lone defense defense de de- de- de tense attorney their bulwark against damning evidence Upon Stewart devolved the task of discrediting pOintblank lions ions of three of them as members of ot a gang which John Jake the he Barber Factor stock speculator last July 12 The defendants Roger Touhy Gustav Gus Gus- Gustav Gustav Schaeffer Albert Kator and Eddie Eddie Ed Ed- die McFadden heed faced the tr trial al without with out evident concern Although Stewart Stewart Stew Slew art was vas their anI only attorney he was considered as good as a battalion It was S Stewart wart who won an acquittal for three of the defendants in a n kid kid- n naping ping case in St. St Paul recently in which the full lull power of the federal governments government's naping campaign cam cam- aign was arrayed against the gangsters gang gang- Against the identification of at the gangsters as 33 kidnapers S Stewart wart was presenting a picture of gang strife strite In Chicago resulting in persecution of oC the he defendants He charged in his opening statement that the once powerful powerful pow pow- erful Al Capone gang sought the elimination of the Touhy gan gangsters and h had d used its influence in police states state's attorney ond and even en federal department of of justice offices to further further fur fur- ther this persecution |