Word: urschel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took the Federal Government less than a month to catch Harvey J. Bailey and Albert Bates, leaders of the gang which kidnapped 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...
...bigger kidnapping news than Oklahoma City's came from Memphis where George R. ("Machine Gun'') Kelly fell into the hands of the police. Wanted in Oklahoma City for the Urschel kidnapping, wanted in Kansas City for murder, wanted in Chicago and St. Paul for robbery and murder, Kelly-a heavyset, black-haired ex-convict who got into crime via bootlegging and who boasts that he can write his name on a wall with machine gun bullets-had been eluding Federal authorities for more than three months. Thanks to an intercepted telegram and the story...
...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...
...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...