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...order: $37.75 a ton. Railroad Co-Ordinator Eastman, who had cried "Collusion!" at the offer, thought a fair price would be $35. The President split the difference. Agreed price: $36.37½. ¶The President appointed Joseph B. Keenan of Cleveland, special prosecutor in the Urschel kidnapping case, to be Assistant Attorney General, filling the vacancy left by resigning Pat Malloy...
...This was the scene as convicted kidnappers of Charles F. Urschel were sentenced in Oklahoma City. Left to right: Albert Bates (in white shirt), Harvey Bailey, Armon Shannon, R. G. Shannon, and Mrs. R. G. Shannon; all received life sentences except Armon Shannon who received a ten-year suspended sentence...
Above this caption and under a headline GET LIFE IN URSCHEL KIDNAPPING the sedate, careful Indianapolis News last week printed a photograph of five men whose solemn expressions supplied the only possible excuse for mistaking them for convicted kidnappers. They were Steel Tycoons Myron C. Taylor. George M. Laughlin, Ernest T. Weir, Eugene G. Grace and Lawyer Nathan L. Miller, representing the American Iron & Steel Institute. The scene was not Oklahoma City but the steps of the White House, where the five had been photographed after a conference with the President...
...conviction by a jury in Oklahoma City of the seven kidnappers who held Charles Frederick Urschel, Oklahoma oilman, for $200,000 ransom (TIME. Oct. 9): life sentences by Federal Judge Edgar Sullins Vaught on Harvey Bailey and Albert Bates, leaders of the kidnapping gang, and on R. L. Shannon & his wife Ora who hid Urschel on their Texas farm; a suspended sentence of ten years on the Shannons' 22-year-old son Armon; sentences of five years on Clifford Skelly and Edward Berman, Minneapolis money passers who handled part of the ransom. George ("Machine Gun") Kelly & his wife Kathryn...
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...