Evening star., 1933-10-09
TRIAL Of KELLYS
OPENS WITH FIGHT
Wife SIaps Guard, Husband,
Angered by Push, Hit on
Head With Gun.
BY the Associated Press.

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OKLAHOMA CITY, October g.
George machine Gum Kelly and his
wife Kathryn scuf1ed in the Federal
Building lobby with their guard today
in belligerent prelude to their trial
for the 100000 kidnapping Of Charles
F. Urschel, oil millionaire
As a result Kelly went to trial with
swelling. bloodstained lump under
his dyed yellow hair, made by a pistol
butt.
II didn't do thing and he whipped
me with a pistol" he ragged.
His slim wife. who swung a stinging
slap to the cheek Of Federal Agent j
C. White when he tried to hurry her
into the elevator and up to the ninth
floor court room, snapped:
"Yes. slapped that officer, and I'd
slap him again"
The incident began when the brown
eyed Mrs. Kelly paused at the elevator
door to kiss her father, j. E. Brooks
Of Oklahoma City.
White gave her slight shove toward
the lift
I'm hurrying!' she cried, and slapped
him.
Guard Strikes Kelly.
Kelly. shackled hand and foot, raised
his manacled hands in what the officer
interpreted as a menacing gesture.
White drew his pistol and, graSping
the barrel, pounded Kelly over the head
Don't! don't" his wife shrieked.
A crowd Of spectators scattered as
other guards drew their pistols and
huddled around Kelly.
They quieted the couple and the
ascent to the court room was resumed
without further incident.
Kathryn was sprightly and smiling as
she took her seat beside her husband
and began chattering with her lawyers.
Determined to drive hard and a
fast case against the notorious couple
District Attorney Herbert X. Hyde said
as court opened:
Il think about II witnesses are all
that will be needed"
The previous Urschel trial, from
which Harvey Bailey Albert Bates and
Mr. and Mrs. r. G. Shannon drew life
sentences, consumed two weeks.
Kelly's attorney, James Mathers
quoted him as saying he was willing
to take the stand for my wife, If I'm
called"
Woman's Plea Faces Fight.
Hyde said the woman's plea that she
was forced to aid in the conspiracy
through fear Of her husband would be
fought at every turn with the conten-
ton she was willing conspirator.
IF Kathryn were a man instead OF
a woman she probably would have fig
| ured in the crime more than Kelly,
the prosecutor told newspaper men.
He said he would use either Mrs
T. M. Coleman or her 21-year-old son
Gay of Stratford, Okla, to testify, as
in the first trial, that both Kellys and
Bates were at the Coleman farm for
several days before the kidnapping and
brought kidnapped man there the day
after the oil millionaire, Charles
F. Urschel, was seized.
Mrs. Coleman to Testify.
Mrs. Coleman again will testify
said Hyde, that Kathryn told her they
had a kidnapped man with them that
day, and that Kathryn spoke Of being
in the big money"
Later, the prosecutor added, testimony
will be introduced to show that Kath-
ryn again entered the conspiracy when
she took the young wife Of Armon
Shannon and several children, includ
ing her own daughter. away from the
Shannons' Texas farm when Urschel
began his period of captivity there. and
that she came back to the farm before
Urschel was freed.
Mrs Shannon is Kathryn's mother.
Armon Shannon, son of r. G. Shannon,
was convicted and received 10-year
suspended sentence in the other trial.
Kelly continued to mutter angrily
about the elevator fight as he waited
for the trial formalities to get under
way
Il didn't do thing and he whipped
me over the headl" he 1growled.