Word: shannon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oklahoma's Charles Frederick Urschel last July. It took the Oklahoma City Federal court less than a fortnight to try them. Last week it took the 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...
...year-old daughter, Geraldine. She induced Arnold to let her keep the girl, thinking that her presence would detract suspicion. Then she persuaded Arnold to get in touch with her lawyers. She explained that two of the defendants on trial for the Urschel kidnapping in Oklahoma City, Farmer Shannon and his wife, were her parents. Arnold was to find out what Prosecutor Herbert K. Hyde had done about her offer to surrender her husband in return for the release of her parents. She gave Arnold some money and a car, then drove to San Antonio with the girl. There...
...associated with the defense attorneys for the Shannons, R. G. (Boss), his wife, Mrs. Ora L. Shannon, and Mr. Shannon's son, Armon Shannon. Just thought you would like to know that TIME served a real benefit in this case...
...Boss Shannon...
...courtroom stirred with tense excitement as Witness Urschel identified the chain and battered tin cup which definitely established his hideout as the gangster-ridden Texas farm of R. G. ("Boss") Shannon. In the most graphic and sensational trial Oklahoma had seen in years, twelve defendants were charged with conspiracy to kidnap the wealthy oil man. whose family had paid about $200,000 for his release last July. Besides Bates there were seven alleged money-passers from St. Paul and Minneapolis, Farmer Shannon, his wife and son, and most notorious of all, Harvey J. Bailey. The law was taking no chances...