The Mammoth Book Of Prison Breaks - Plot & Excerpts
But there were a few who were determined to ensure that they were not forgotten, and when Roger “The Terrible” Touhy and members of his gang broke out from the supposedly escape-proof Stateville Prison, near Joliet in Illinois, their reputations were sufficient to merit the attentions of one of the top law enforcers in America. It was FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover himself who successfully led the hunt and got his men. And perhaps not surprisingly, the pursuit became the basis for a movie, praised for not glorifying but authentically recreating the gangster lifestyle. While the FBI still maintains in its history of Touhy on its official website that he was responsible for the kidnapping of John “Jake the Barber” Factor for which he was sentenced to imprisonment in Joliet, authorities from 1954 onwards seemed to accept Touhy’s version of events. Touhy maintained that he was framed for the kidnapping by Al Capone and Factor in order to get him out of the way (one of the chapter titles in his autobiography is the rather mild “Al Capone Didn’t Like Me”, which underestimates the depth of feeling quite dramatically).
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