Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-26
NATION 5 MOST
NOTED BANDIT
UNDER ARREST
'Machine-Gun Kelly And Wife
Captured Today In Memphis
o.,
Rooming House.
SOUGHT FOR LONG TERM
Notorious Desperate Meekly
Submits When Officer Gov
ers Him With Gun.
By JAMES S. BEALLE
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
MEMPHIS. Tenn, Sept. 26. U.p)
George machine Gum Kelly and
wife, asserted members in the
notorious midwest Harvey Bailey
bandit gang, were captured here
today.
"We are positive we have the
right man," said police chief Will
D. Lee of Memphis. "There is no
doubt about it in our minds"
Lee was corroborated in his
Identification by U. S. District At
torney Herbert K. Hyde, Oklaho-
ma City.
Hyde is in charge of the mass
trial of defendants in the kidnap-
ing of Charles F. Urschel, wealthy
Oklahoma City oil man, in which
Kelly and his wife were indicted.
They were the only defendants
still at large.
Mrs. Kelly Is the daughter of
Mrs. r G.. BOSS Shannon, who
with her husband and step-son,
Armon, are on trial on kidnapping
conspiracy charges at Oklahoma
City. The elder Shannon in his
testimony yesterday placed full
blame for the 100000 ransom plot
on Kelly, and his wife, and Albert
Bates, who is on trial.
All doubt of their identity was
swept aside by the announcement
of w. A. Rorer, U. S. government
agent from Birmingham, who de-
clared: "They admit their iden-
tity.'
Rorer made his report to J.
Edgar Hoover, chief of the bureau
of investigation at Washington, by
long distance telephone.
'' We haven't finger printed
them yet, but we will - so Short
w. Rorer told Hoover.
"I've got coded telegram the
agent said. cit was sent to Itch
nor from Fort Worth, Texas, and it
i is being sent to Hoover at Wash
ington to be decoded."
Killed Policeman
Kelly not only is wanted In con-
nection with the Urschel kidnap-
ing case, in which he boldly
threatened death to the wealthy
victim of the country's costiliest
abduction if convictions resulted
from the trial, but also in con-
nection with specular robbery
at Chicago last week.
That incident cost the life of
policeman Miles Cunningham. Chi
cago, when Cunningham, off duty
and carrying home his first pay
check in weeks. tried to frustrate
! a bandit holdup of a federal re-
serve money automobile. The BAN
| dts roared away from the scene
in a burst of smoke ingeniously
emitted from the exhaust of their
car. Cunningham died in part
ing volley of machine gun shots.
Aside from admitting their iden-
tity, authorities who effected the
! double arrest here Said the
pair declined to comment on their
! recent activities, and remained sui
len.
The two were captured in an
unobtrusive rooming house in the
surburbs of Memphis.
/ A long line of houses of the
! same architectural design is on
| either side.
; A Gordon of police surrounded
the dwelling at a. m. and a de-
tail of heavily detectives
and patrolmen made their way to
/ the entrance.
A patrolman faced Kelly's door
with a poised saWedoff shot gun
and raped.
The door swung open and Kelly
stood there with As automatic
in his hand.
Drop it Kelly the patrolman
snapped "or you'll die right there"
The weapon dropped to the floor
and Kelly's hands went up quick
ly.