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...proposed services on behalf of the kidnapped man-$1,000 to be paid immediately, $10,000 when Berg was released. Levinson. who felt that Richards knew altogether too much about the kidnapping, played along with him until Berg was released, then reported him to the police. Before any ransom had been paid, Richards was arrested. He got himself acquitted in a St. Louis court seven months later, only to find that the Missouri and St. Louis Bar Associations were prepared to run him out of the profession. To save time, the Bar Associations took their case direct to the State...
...conviction by a jury in Oklahoma City of the seven kidnappers who held Charles Frederick Urschel, Oklahoma oilman, for $200,000 ransom (TIME. Oct. 9): life sentences by Federal Judge Edgar Sullins Vaught on Harvey Bailey and Albert Bates, leaders of the kidnapping gang, and on R. L. Shannon & his wife Ora who hid Urschel on their Texas farm; a suspended sentence of ten years on the Shannons' 22-year-old son Armon; sentences of five years on Clifford Skelly and Edward Berman, Minneapolis money passers who handled part of the ransom. George ("Machine Gun") Kelly & his wife Kathryn...
...early in September that Kelly made his mistake. He separated from his wife and set out for Texas, presumably to collect some of the Urschel ransom money. Mrs. Kelly continued to drive through Oklahoma, using the light delivery truck in which she and her husband had posed as vegetable dealers. She was by this time thoroughly frightened, was thinking of betraying her husband. Driving into Texas she picked up three hitchhikers, Luther Arnold, his wife, and their 12-year-old daughter, Geraldine. She induced Arnold to let her keep the girl, thinking that her presence would detract suspicion. Then...
Kelly's part in the Urschel kidnapping was such that he is said to have received three-eighths of the $200,000 ransom paid for Urschel's release. He was identified from pictures as one of the two men who walked into the sunporch of the Urschel home and ordered the wealthy oilman into the kidnap car. And Urschel testified that Kelly had spent several days guarding him while he was held at the Shannon farm in Paradise, Tex. Over $73,000 of the ransom, presumably Kelly's share, was found by Federal agents last week buried...
Wimpole Street backed up against one of London's grisliest slums, one of whose well-organized rackets it was to steal Wimpole Street's pets and hold them for ransom. If the ransom were not quickly forthcoming, the pet's paws and head were returned to the owners in a bag. Once (in reality, three times, says Biographer Woolf in a note) Flush was so kidnapped by these racketeers. Everybody, including Mr. Browning, advised Miss Barrett to refuse to pay ransom, sacrifice Flush on the altar of law & order. Miss Barrett indignantly refused, went herself to beard...