Evening star., 1933-09-17
KIDNAPPING DRAMA
WILL Be UNF0LDED
Hitherto UnreveaIed Detail;
of UrscheI Case to Be
Told in Court.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, September 1e.-
The drama Of the Charles F. Urschcl
kidnapping and the hunt for his abduc-
tors will be unfolded in hitherto un-
revealed detail before q Federal court
jury here beginning Monday. when II
men and ! woman 60 on trial
Heading the cast Of defendants is
Harvey Bailey, 46, named by of1cers rs
the master mind of the plot which re-
suited in the seizure Of Urschel in his
own home and his release nine days
later upon payment Of $500. 900 ransom.
The hero is Urschel. 40 years old, 6
feet tall and handsome
The director Is Federal Judge Edgar
s. Vaught He tersely denied changes
Of venue, reductions in bonds, which
he set at 100000 each, severances and
wTits Of habeas corpus as defense at
torneys, headed by Ben Laska Of Den
yer and James H. Mathers Of Oklahoma
City, exhausted every legal recourse at
their command.
Kelly and Wife at Large.
Absent were George Machine Gun
Kelly and his slim wife Kathryn. Only
these of the IA indicted for the kid
naping have evaded arrest.
The others are: Albert Bates. charged
with aiding Kelly in the actual seizure
Of Urschel: r. G. Shannon, his witt
and son Armon, on whose Paradise,
Tex, farm Urschel was held pending
payment Of the ransom, and seven Twin
Cities men who tried to spend some of
the marked ransom money, Barney
Berman, Sam Kozberg, Sam Kronick.
Charles Wolk, Pete Hackett, Pete Mil
Ter and Pete Arnold.
| A nubulous liquor deal was given as
the explanation for the appearance OF
the money in st. Paul and Mime
apoliS.
Urschel and his friend Walter Jarrett,
! oil man, we're kidnapped while playing
bridge with their wives Saturday night.
| July a.
Urschel and jarrett were hustled into
q waiting motor car.
Jarrett Was Released.
| Within an hour Jarrett was released.
The kidnapers learned his identity from
! the cards in his pocketbook. which they
emptied of $50. This circumstance, au-
| thorities said. may yet lead to flling OF
| State charges Of robbery with firearms,
capital offense in Oklahoma. The
maximum Federal penalty for kidnap-
! ing is life imprisonment.
! To Urschel's friend, John G. Cat
| lett, in Tulsa, six days later came
letter written by Urschel, with an in
! closure to Mrs. Urschel. Details were
! given for the ransom payment.
t E. E. Kirkpatrick of Tulsa paid of
the kidnapers in a Kansas City hotel
The night of July 81 taxicab took
Urschel to his front door He had been
released near Norman, 20 miles south OF
here.
/ Co-operated With Ohicials.
| The Urschels co-operated fully with
Federal investigators, and what Urschel
told them brought about the capture Of
I Bailey and the Shannons. Twice daily.
except on a certain Sunday. a plane
/ droned over his prison, Urschel told
them, at about 8 am. and pm. A
check Of airline routes and schedules in
/ Southwestern States narrowed the field
| to a circle about the Shannon farm.
upon which local officers had been
looking with suspicion.
4 At dawn. August -. Bailey. sleepir
in the back yard of the Shannon home.
his weapons at hand, was awakened by
Federal operatives, led by Gus Jones of
San Antonio. He made no resistance.
/ Officers said marked money was in his
! possession. About $4,000, in all, has
! been recovered.
I Arrested in Denver, Bates also had a
roll Of marked bills.
Bailey Flees and Is Captured.
! On Labor day. September 4. Bailey.
/ who led the Memorial day escape of IL
Kansas State prisoners, escaped from
the Dallas Jail. described as the strong
est in the Southwest but was captured
four hours later in Ardmore, Okla.
Only yesterday Tom Manion. an as
sistant Dallas jailer. and another man
were arrested charged with aiding
! Bailey to escape
Urschell, father of one son. Charles.
j Jr., is, united his fortune with that of
the vast Tom B. Slick estate when he
/ married Mrs. Slick in ST. Louis Octo-
Der II, 1882. Slick, king OF oil wild
! caters" died in Baltimore in August.
/ 1880. Urschel's first wife, Sticks sister.
died OF heart disease about year later