Voices from Alcatraz, Kirkpatrick 1947 Signed, True Crime Machine Gun Kelly HCDJ

by E. E. Kirkpatrick

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Voices from Alcatraz E. E. Kirkpatrick 1947 The story of one of the most sensational crimes committed during the 1930s Gangster era. Includes letters later written by the incarcerated perpetrators attempting to rehabilitate themselves. Charles Frederick Urschel (March 7, 1890 – September 26, 1970) was an American oil business tycoon and kidnap victim of George "Machine Gun" Kelly. ... On July 22, 1933, using his trademark machine gun, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, along with Albert L. Bates, interrupted a bridge game at Urschel's residence in Oklahoma City, abducting Urschel and his guest, fellow oilman Walter R. Jarrett (who would later relocate to Midland, Texas, where he died in 1947 aged 60), at gunpoint while their wives "helplessly watched". This began a startling kidnapping case evoking the new Lindbergh kidnapping laws, led to 21 convictions, coined a new name for Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, G-Men, and culminated in one of the first filmed trials. The two men were forced into the back seat of Kelly's Chevrolet Sedan and driven to a point 12 miles from the city limits. After ascertaining which of the men was Urschel by checking his wallet, Jarrett was released, and the criminals took Urschel to a farmhouse in Paradise, Texas, where they held him for over a week. The kidnappers released him on July 30 after Ernest Kirkpatrick, then the editor of the Brownwood Bulletin, as well as a representative for the family, paid $200,000 in documented bills (equivalent to

• Publisher: The Naylor Company
• Year: 1947
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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