Evening star., 1933-09-19
INVALID ACCUSES
bATESAS K|DNAPER
Mother of One of Defendants
in UrScheI Case Takes
Stand.
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, September 10
A 74-year-old woman, rolled into Fed
eral Court today in a wheel chair,
pointed with feeble hand at Albert
Bates as one Of two men who plotted
q kidnapping while staying at her farm
home near Stratford, Okla.
The Government alleges the hdnap-
ing was that Of Charles F. Urschel,
oil millionaire, taken from his home
here the night of July % and held nine
days until ransomed for 100000.
The aged woman, called as a witness
in the trial of Bates and IL other de-
PENDANTS charged under the new Lind
bergh" kidnap law with the abduction
Of Urschel, was Mrs. T. M Coleman
mother Of Mrs. r. G. Shannon, one of
the defendants.
Heard Of Kidnap Plot.
Mrs. Coleman testified she had housed
and fed Bates and George machine
Gum Kelly while they plotted a kid
naping. Kelly and his wife Kathryn
are fugitives in the case.
That's the man! Mrs. Coleman
said meekly. as she pointed at Bates.
She explained she knew him as
George Davis and had heard him say
at her Stratford farm, there is going
to be kidnapping in Oklahoma City"
Her 18-year-old grandson, Gay Cole
man. the first Government witness, had
testified he heard Bates saw at the
Stratford farm that he was going Ito
pull KIDNAPPING in Oklahoma City"
Mrs. Coleman related that Kelly and
his wife and Bates spent many hours at
her farm prior to the Urschel kid
naping.
Ordered Group Away.
She said strange activity on her farm
Sunday morning, July %, prompted her
to ask Kathryn Kelly what Kelly and
the man she identified as Bates were
doing.
She told me. they got man kid
naped'
Il told her to get those men away
from there as quickly as she could or
l would scream and alarm the whole
settlement. I got out of bed, and
when I was putting on my clothes I
heard car leave"
The Government contends the kid
napers drove to the Coleman farm
near Stratford with Urschel and
changed cars there before proceeding
to the Shannon farm, near Paradise,
lex, where the oil man was held q
prisoner blindfolded, for nine days.
Herbert K. Hyde. youthful United
Governments version of how Urschel
was kidnapped.
Harvey Bailey, called the brains" of
the kidnap gang. sat quietly beside his
attorney. as did Bates. the alleged
strong -arm" man Of the ring.
The prosecutor said it would be
shown that Bates and Kelly abducted
the oil man at the point of machine
guns and took him in an automobile to
the Shannon farm near Paradise, Tex.
Several hours after Urschels arrival
at the hiding place. Hyde said, the oil
man was given a cup Of hot coffee
made by Mrs. Shannon; that he was
fed sparingly for the first few days and
his abductors read reports of his kid
naping to him from newspaper head
lines.
The prosecutor said the Government
Will present a written statement by
Armon Shannon. telling how the kid
napers offered him $4,000 to watch
Urschel at his home. after the victim
had been removed from the home of
r G. Shannon on the same farm.
Urschel was blindfolded. chained and
handcuffed in the back seat of the kid
napers' car on the trip to Texas, Hyde
said.
Hyde said that during Urschels
captivity he was forced to sleep on
dirty, filthy, sinking cold floor
chained and handcuffed like yellow
dog"
Feared for His Life.
Detailing how the oil man was COM
PEELED to write ransom note, In which
he said Il fear for my life" the district
attorney related that intermediates for
the family later obtained 100000, re-
corded the serial numbers of the bills
and paid the money to the kidnapers In
Kansas City, Mo.
During Urschels imprisonment. Hyde
said, Kelly warmed up and got
chummy"
"we'll show that Kelly said: This
place Is as safe as 1t can be. We used
1t in the old days as hangout when
we were running liquor from Mexico to
Chicago. All the boys use it. After
they pull bank job or something they
come down here to cool off,
We'll show that he said Harvey
Bailey, Bob Brady and Jim Clark had
been at the farm-that he told all about
the Kansas City massacre. Well show
that Bates said they always gave Shan
non 5000 or $500 to use the place as a
hangout."
Bob Brady and Jim Clark were par
ticipants in the Kansas prison break
which Bailey led last Memorial day.
Bailey is accused of being one Of the
machine gunners who killed four on
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