The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-24

q crank letter."
His fingerprints were at the
bottom.
Two weeks after the trial had
begun, Bates, Bailey and the Shan
mons were sentenced to life i'm.
prisonment. Armon, Shannon's
son, was given 10 years in the
Federal penitentiary. The seven
little fellows" who assisted in pass
ing the ransom money received
sentences Of from five to eight
years each.
In the meantime, Federal agents
had never given up the search for
Kelly and his wife. With q help
Of a mysterious tx" whose identi.
ty has never been disclosed, agents
captured Kelly and his titan
haired wife in a ramshackle house
on the outskirts Of Memphis,
Tenn, shortly before dawn on
September 26.
The thug, his black hair dyed
yellow in an attempted disguise,
his eyes weary with sleep, strug-
gled to his feet when agents
prodded him awake. He tugged
at a .45-caliber revolver, but found
himself staring down the muzzle
Of a sawed-off shotgun. Other
heavily armed men stood near by,
guns trained in his direction. At
the grim command:
"Stick 'em up, Kelly!"
The Western bad man, who had
sworn he would never be taken
alive, grinned Sheepishly, allowed
the revolver to slip to the floor,
and muttered:
"Okay, boys. Yuh got me
and I'd been waiting for you all
night"
Clinging tearfully to his arm,
his slender, pretty wife, clad in a
flaming negligee, looked on with
out q word.
Kelly was taken into another
room. There, surrounded by per.
spring Federal agents, stenogra-
pliers and deputies, he was ques.
toned.
For hours he refused to say q
word. Questions were fired at him
in rapid succession, and the ques.
TONERS worked in relays of four
hours each.
AT ALCATRAZ
At noon, John M. Keith, special
agent sent on from Washington
by Mr.. Hoover, came out for a
drink Of water. hopping his face,
Mr.. Keith said:
kelly was just q punk until
he went to Leavenworth and
met Verne Miller and other ma
chine gunners who have been
terrOriZing the Middle West.
"HiS wife still carries q scar
on her face from . blow he gave
her with . pistol. That's the
kind Of q man he iS. He might
kill in . jam, but he's only q
coward and a fOurflusher."
Shortly after, on a Texas farm,
owned by Case Colman, uncle Of
Kathryn Kelly, agents found a
thermos jug buried in a cotton
patch and containg $4,000 of the
ransom money.
Kelly and his wife, whose titan
hair turned out to be a wig, were
tried and convicted of the kidnap.
ping OF Charles F. Urschel and
sentenced to life Imprisonment,
The Sullen bandit aroused filters
Of amusement among spectators
when he appeared in the court
room his blond hair already turn
Ing back to its natural dark hue.
To make his appearance more gro
tesque, a streak Of red, caused by
a blow from a Federal agent when
the gangster tried to escape,
mingled with the yellow.
When he was sentenced Kelly
whispered to his wife. He prom
ised to get her and himself out of
prison by Christmas. He even
boosted to newspaper men about
it. No jail could hold him, he
SWore. And Kathryn believed
him. Serving time now in the
women'S prison at Cincinnati she
is beginning to doubt it. And
Kelly, now at Americas Devils
Island, is finding out that there Is
one prison from which he cannot
escape.