The Washington times., 1933-09-19
FEDERAL GUNS
STIR WOMEN
IN COURT
cSroWd Hears U. S. Prosecutor
FIay Bailey, Bates and
10 Other Prisoners


set off the Federal Governments
eopening blast against the IL de-
PENDANTS on trial for the $4,000
kidnapping of Charles F. Urschel,
rinulti-milllonaire Oklahoma City
oil man.
!; Hyde began Ais opening state
ment to the jury by reading the
Federal indictment charging
Harvey J. Bailey, Albert L.
Bates, and ten others. ne of
them a woman, with the kid
11aping.
= The machine-g -gun-guarded court
room was thronged as yde, a
etocky. swarthy- -complexioned
man, launched into an explana-
ton of the Governments pur-
pose at this trial, which is the
sfirst under the "Lindbergh" kid
mapping law.
Public Admitted
AS Hyde delivered his address.
every seat in the court room was
occupied.
:, The jury having been selected
late yesterday, the public was
admitted this morning for the
pfirst time.
> Fully half of the s-ectators
were women. They were sur
sprised upon reaching the upper
1floors of the Federal building
to find deputy marshals armed
swith sawed-off shotguns and
rifles. Every person was chal-
-lenget. and forced to show a
epaSs before being admitted.
Nearly everyone was searched.
. The indictment read by Hyde
pointed out that of IA indicted
AZ are on trial. The two at large
..Are George ("Machine GunD
~Kelly and his titian-haired wife,
Katherine Kelly.
The indictment charged that
Bates and Kelly were the pair
who actually took Urschel on the
night of July % last while he
was playing bridge in his palatial
home in Oklahoma City with his
wife and friends.
e.. Purple Nightriders'
Bailey, according to Hyde,
Shackled Urschel when the oil
millionaire was taken to the Shan
non ranch near Paradise, Tex, by
Kelly and Bates.
J. G. Cattell and E. E. Kirk
patrick, Of Tulsa, paid the kid
napers 100000 ransom in Kansas
City. Hyde characterized Kelly
and Bates as purple nightriders."
He said:
"These kidnapers entered the
home of a fine citizen of Okla
hOma City at IL o'clock at
= night, kidnapped him and showed
= him no mercy.
"They took him from his
home at the point of a ma.
49, chine gun, tore him away from
- his wife and friends, blind
folded him, chained him in the
back Of car, and spirited him
, to the Shannon ranch in Texas.
"They weren't cOnsiderate of
him. They told him they had
! guns on him. And they did.
They said they had hypOdermics
and would use them on Mr..
UrsChel if he put up any re-
: SiStance."
!: His voice reverberating over the
court room, Hyde shouted:
"The scene of this kidnapping
opened In Oklahoma City, but
1t will close in this court roOm."
Attorneys for the defense leaped
to their feet with objections.
Prosecutor Cautioned
Judge Edgar S. Vaught, presid-
! ing, cautioned Hyde not to make
any representations.
Hyde said Urschel's life was
threatened mot once or twice
but half a dozen times while he
was in captivity in Texas. He
I said:
'"The actual kidnaperS, Bates
and Kelly, did not give MIR.
UrsChel a thing to eat for "A
hours after they abducted him.
Then they gave him a cup of
coffee"
The district attorney told the
Jury that r. G.. Shannon and his
! wife knew that Urschel was a
kidnapped man when he was taken
to the hide-out on their ranch.
Said Hyde:
"Urschel heard Shannon talk
ing to the kidnaperS about S~e
abduction"
Hyde said the evidence will
show the kidnapers offered Ar
mon Shannon $4,000 to guard
Urschel. He said:
"These night-riding kidnaperS
made Mr.. UrscheI write letter
to his wife and to his friend
John q. # Tulsa, about
ransom payment.
Gears FOR LIFE
"If the -anS"m is too high
forget all about me, Mr..
UrSchel wrote in his first letter.
They tore it up and said they
did not give a damn about the
condition of the Slick estate
but wanted money He then
dictated another letter in which
he said he feared for his Iife."
The late T. B Slick left an
estate of $2O,O0O,OOO. Urschel,
who was Sticks business partner,
married Sticks widow.