The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-16


Copyright. 1898. by NEA Service. Incl
NKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 10
Vii I had it TO do over again, I
would have killed George Kelly
long before the Urschel kidnap-
ing.
That would have saved my
mother and my stepfather and
my baby from all this trouble.
They would have got me, Kelly's
friends, but what would I care
about that? 1t would have saved
my mother from life term in the
penitentiary.
No, l wouldn't have had long to
live. There's too many of them.
1t doesn't matter if you kill off
half a dozen Of them. They al
ways get you.
1 told the government men
that I would plead guilty if they
wouldn't put my baby on the stand
in my trial. I'd rather die than
see them do that. Pauline is
only Is.
She's just a baby She doesn't
know what it's all about in this
big world. But she believes in
me. She knows I wouldn't do any,
thing to hurt her.
can't help it if I cry when I
think about her. She and my
mother MRS. Ora c.. Shannnon)
are all I've got in the world.
I expected to be convicted. They
didn't believe me. But it almost
drives me crazy to think what
will happen to mother and Polly.
I'd do anything. I'd go to the
electric chair, if they'd let my
mother go. Surely they'll keep
us together afterward. 1t would
kill mother if they'd take her to
one prison and me to another.
I'm afraid she won't last long,
anyway. She broke down after
she left the courtroom Saturday.
If the government will put me
where 1 can be with her, I'll be a
good prisoner. 1 wouldn't cause
them any trouble.
But if they don't, I'll be in the
newspapers again before long.
Yes, I could be plenty mean.
George Kelly brought all this
trouble on us. I feel pretty hard
against him. If it would save my
mother, I'd walk up to him now
and shoot him, but I guess moth
ing can be done now.
CTILL, think lot of him, and
~ I'd do almost anything 1
could for him. He still loves me.
He worships me. I'm the only
thing in his life.
I didn't meet George Kelly in
Tulsa, like the papers said. don't
know why they want to give out
such trash. I never saw this man
Stephens in my life. (She re-
ferred to Little Steve" Stephens,
one-time notorious Tulsa boot
logger, who was reported to have
put George machine Gum Kelly
in the hip-pocket and brief case
bootlegging business in Tulsa.)
No, of course I was never mar
ried to him Gittle Steve. 1 never
lived in Tulsa. Just passed
through there a few times.
I met George Kelly in San An
tonic about seven years ago, after
my second husband, Charles
Thorne, shot and killed himself.
q. G. Fry of Asher, Okla, was
her first husband, divorced after
childhood marriageO
I've had bad luck with my hus-
bands.
George and I got pretty we'll
acquainted. We had met at the
home of couple we both knew
in San Antonio. Then he left.
didn't hear anything of him
for long time.
Then my friend in San Antonio
got letter from him from Lea
venworth penitentiary. That was
an awful lot to give a guy just
for whisky, don't you think? They
had about fifteen counts against
him.
Anyway, Kelly found out from
this friend that 1 was living at
my home in Fl. Worth. 1 was
sick and in the hospital at the
time. George wrote to me. When
he got out, he telephoned me
from Minneapolis and asked me
to come there.
1 went, and We got married.
Gee, that was a swell wedding!
1t was in big church, and they
had lots of flowers and every
thing. About a hundred of KEEL
ly's friends were there, race track
gamblers and such. They all
treated me fine. Naturally,
didn't know who they were or
what business they were in.
THAT was three years ago
Il Sept. "a. We always cele-
brated on our wedding annive
Sary. Last year we had a big time
at the Frolics, Chicago night club.
1t wasn't so much of a celebration
this year. 1t came just before
they arrested us in Memphis,
when I was ready to give up, any,
wav.
We lived in Minneapolis quite
a while. Then we lived in Chi
cago, and a lot of the time was
with Polly and my daddy u. E.
Brooks at my home in Fort