# United States vs. Roger Touhy (Selective Service case, Chicago)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-583696011-us-v-touhy-draft/

Federal criminal case file at Chicago against Roger Touhy for failing to register for the draft under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. Nine digitized pages.

The National Archives' note reads: "This criminal case against Roger Touhy for failing to register for the draft under the Selective Service and Training Act of 1940." The file has nine page images; the catalog gives no date, and the pages were not read for this archive.

The FBI's captions on its Touhy images say that "Touhy and his gang of violent criminals escaped from a penitentiary in Illinois in October 1942" and that Touhy, Edward Darlak and Basil Banghart were captured on December 29, 1942. This draft-registration file is the only Touhy court record in this archive; how it relates to the 1942 escape is not stated in the catalog.

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/583696011