Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jury only two and one-half hours to find them guilty. A verdict was returned against Bailey, Bates, Farmer R. L. ("Boss") Shannon and his wife and son (accused of hiding Urschel on their Texas farm), and two Minneapolis money-passers who handled part of the $200,000 ransom. Three other accused money-passers were acquitted...
...early in September that Kelly made his mistake. He separated from his wife and set out for Texas, presumably to collect some of the Urschel ransom money. Mrs. Kelly continued to drive through Oklahoma, using the light delivery truck in which she and her husband had posed as vegetable dealers. She was by this time thoroughly frightened, was thinking of betraying her husband. Driving into Texas she picked up three hitchhikers, Luther Arnold, his wife, and their 12-year-old daughter, Geraldine. She induced Arnold to let her keep the girl, thinking that her presence would detract suspicion. Then...
Kelly's part in the Urschel kidnapping was such that he is said to have received three-eighths of the $200,000 ransom paid for Urschel's release. He was identified from pictures as one of the two men who walked into the sunporch of the Urschel home and ordered the wealthy oilman into the kidnap car. And Urschel testified that Kelly had spent several days guarding him while he was held at the Shannon farm in Paradise, Tex. Over $73,000 of the ransom, presumably Kelly's share, was found by Federal agents last week buried...
...building had once housed the famed department store of A. T. Stewart. When Stewart died in the late 1870's, grave-looters stole his body from the St. George's Church in Stuyvesant Square, held it for ransom. To this day no one knows whether it was successfully ransomed. In the Garden City, L. I. Cathedral, which Stewart built , is a tomb bearing his name. But the inscription reads: '"He is not here, he is risen...
...Oklahoma City, rich Oilman Charles F. Urschel, whom gunmen snatched from a family card game on his own front porch, turned up after nine days captivity. His family admittedly paid ransom, kept silence for eight hours to let the kidnappers get away...