Evening star., 1933-09-27
CONFESSES TRYING
TO RECOVER $73,25)
RANSOM FOR KELLY
Attorney and Former Brother
in-LaW of Desperate
Is Arrested.
CASH FOUND IN TEXAS
BY FEDERAL OFFICERS
Keith Says Kidnaper Was Broke
When Captured in Memphis
House.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated FreSS.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, September 81
John NJ Keith of the Department OF
Justice announced that Langford Ram
sey, attorney and former brother-in-laW
of George Machine Gun" Kelly, con-
iessed that Kelly sent him to Coleman
Tex, to get part of the. Charles F. Ur-
echel ransom money, s73250 of which
was recovered near Coleman today.
Kelly got $4,000 of the 100000
Urschel ransom money and Albert Bates
got another $75,0o0," Keith said. Bates
is among those now on trial at Okla
homa City.
The other money was divided among
the lesser participants" Keith added
kelly was broke when he got to
Memphis Every effort he made to get
the buried money near Coleman was
thwarted He attempted time and again
to get it."
Linked to Chicago Crime.
Keith said he knew Kelly was in
Chicago September 81, when two mes
sengers of the Federal Reserve Bank
were held up ard Chicago police
man, Miles Cunningham, was killed.
He left Immediately thereafter for
Memphis" the officer said
I'VE missed capturing Kelly by II
hours in San Antonio, Tex, September
13. He was spotted on his way to get
nf his hI1t or IF
just IL hours before we arrived
Ramsey was arrested this morning
when he went to police headquarters.
Keith said he took Geraldine Arnold,
the 12-year-old girl who revealed the
whereabouts of the Kellys, to Fort
Worth, Tex, from Memphis, after Mrs
Kelly had brought her here as a
blind" representing the child as her
daughter. Ramsey is a brother of
kelly's first wife.
Plan Removal in Plane.
Officers planned to remove the Kel-
lys from Memphis by planes at the most
auspicious moment. An officer, who
removal was obtained from Federal
Judge H. B. Anderson at jackson, Tenn.
The officer said the dash may be made
today, but he did not know whether the
Kellys would be taken direct to Okla
homa City.
The Kellys were arraigned last night
at a secret hearing before Lester H.
Brenner, United States commissioner.
Brenner said the hearing was held on
warrants based on indictments returned
at Oklahoma City.
Keith said Kelly came to Memphis
Friday and went to the Ramsey home,
where Kelly's first wife. a sister OF
Ramsey, lived.
Keith said Ramsey telephoned j. r.
Tichenor and engaged a room for the
desperado. Tichenor, like Kelly and
his wife, and S. E. Travis, Tichenors S
brother-in are held under $780,
600 bond 1t was at Tichenor's home
the Kellys were captured.
Meanwhile machine guns guarded
every entrance to the county Jail where
the fueitives are held There were ma
chine guns il the hallway outside of
Kelly's cell. Every automobile enter
ing or leaving the city was investigated
by armed officers, as authorities ex-
pressed fear the Kellys' friends would
stage a counter attack in an attempt
to release him.
Keith ordered all officers not to dis
cuss the case.
Not long back" he commented, Eve
had a massacre of officers in Kansas
City in broad daylight. That was the
result of too much talking. We don't
intend to let anything like that hap
pen in Memphis
Mrs. Kelly said she was ready to go
to Oklahoma City to stand trial.
Kelly told a guard to tell the world
that 1 will be out of this Jail before
long" He added, as an afterthought,
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