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U Si S Prosecutors Think R Letter Has las Touch of of Legal Mind BELIEVE RING BROKEN Wait Trials Trial's End to Down in C Case CaseBy se Br By Vetted United 4 Pun Press OKLAHOMA CITY Sept 29 A 29 A lawyer with und world underworld contacts was wu sought today as the master mind of at the Urschel J kidnap plot Federal prose prosecutors in the war on racketeering declared the original ransom notes as well as the th threat ening letters used by George Machine Ma chine Gun Kelly to terrorize Urschel trial principals and witnesses were formulated by a legal mind The sensational disclosure was made by federal authorities authorities' a as the Pie e trial of ten conspiracy de de' came to a a close cloie in a fortified federal court chamber here The theory that Harvey j Bailey Balley notorious convict convi t was the brains u of the conspiracy has has been abandoned it was revealed Neither Kelly nor Albert L. L Bat Bates s themen identified as the the actual actual kidnapers kid kid- of ot Millionaire Ch Charles Charle rles F. F Urschel Ur Ur- schel ts la credited with with conceiving the fantastic scheme to seize the oil oil prince Government authorities were ere care fut ful to says say that t no lawyer Jawer connected with the trial proceedings was in jn POINTS TO 10 NOTES I am convinced eci that a framed and possibly wrote the org inal kidnap notes notes- said Joseph B B 13 Keenan a assistant U. U S. S attorney gen eral eraS It is Is' also evident that legal talent counseled with the Kellys G George org orge and Kathryn in the send threatening letters from rom Chicago cago to Urschel and oth others rs The ransom ransom n notes tes to John G. G Catlett Catlett Cat- Cat lett ett and E. E E. E Kirkpatrick of at Tulsa while Urschel was held for nine days daya dayson on the Shannon ranch near Parl Paradise Texas were masterpieces of careful planning and good English Government agents believe the kid naping ring itself has bas been broken up They also believe that the finding of of the Urschel ransom al a- a ai- ai buried by Kelly on the farm of his wife's uncle near Coleman Texas has been a staggering blow to some persons deeply involved with the gangsters in the crime The close of the day 11 Ur Urschel chel trial today will be the signal for the government government- to crack down on every possible source in an effort eUort to un- un Continued on Pass Paie Six 5 I U. U S. S HUNTS FOR MASTER MIND Continued from Page Pue One cover the in marked 20 bil bills that still is missing WILL USE PRESSURE The pressure of an armed robber robbery charge with death in the states state's electric elec elec- trie chair as a possible penalty wl will be used to make Bates and Kelly talk Federal agents were confident th the unspent balance of the huge ransom would be recovered and that one o of the most vicious outlaw gangs since sine the da days s of Jesse James will be wiped out That the notorious Bailey was no noone not one of the major plotters now Is 15 fairly definitely established Only three days before he was captured cap cap- hired on the Shannon ranch he was in Kin Kingfisher fisher Okla OkIa with two other othe men Tien robbing a bank accord according 1 to bankers' bankers identifications Bailey no doubt had a part In th the Urschel case but if it he W was a major conspirator and got a big cut in th the money Toney he wouldn't have been u up there pulling a bank robbery said one federal official today I Kelly Presents Strange Spectacle MEMPHIS Term Tenn Sept 29 A W-A A strange spectacle George Machine Machin Gun Kelly chafed in his prison ce cell ceIl here today as federal agen agents ts moved guardedly with their plans to change chang his address to similar quarters a at Oklahoma City When captured by off officers ers Tuesday morning he was smoothly shaven ant and his lis dark hair was freshly dyed ded yc yel yel- low After four days in jail he ha haa had hada a heavy dark beard eyebrows that tha are partly pertly blond and partly brunet brune and hair that is dappled blond ant and brown rown A source close to the officers in charge disclosed that authorities a at Oklahoma C City ty where Kelly and hi hIs Wife will b be tried on an a n nf f f Vt J iA naping Charles F F. F Urs Urschel h have asked that the couple be transferred by Sa Sat Sat- S GETS INSTRUCTIONS John M. M Keith agent in ch charge sal saId today oday he conferred over long distance I telephone last night with J. J Edgar Edga Hoover head of the bureau of investigation investigation gation in Washington ton and received receive instructions for the trip to Oklahoma City Keith Hid lid not reveal the instructions lions Ions but it was generally understood the trip will be made late tonight o or early tomorrow morning When the officers do decide to make mak the transfer the Kellys will travel i In style with plenty of ot company An armada ar am- mada of 16 airplanes stood ready a at municipal airport for the dash to Oklahoma Okla Okla- homa ioma City with the prisoners an and their heir heavy escort of ot federal men T The army loaned some of the ships ship for or the occasion A magazine detective could have hav followed their trail W. W A. A Rorer Rarer federal federal fed fed- eral agent who directed the capture o 0 the Kellys here yesterday said in discussing the case Rorer who said Kelly was a gone gon that hat federal officials picked up th the goose joose from irom the start pointed ou out trail rail of ot the outlaw and his wife in Minneapolis weeks after they left lef Coleman Texas where part of th the Urschel ransom money was recovered yesterday EASY TO TRACE The They drove a 16 cylinder automobile automobile automo- automo bile lle and it was easy to trace them through Chicago to Detroit Rorer said addi adding g that they abandoned the expensive car and took to smaller automobiles iles changing them faster and faster Rorer Borer said the o officers stayed a jump ump behind the Kellys in Des Moines Omaha and other cities of ot the mid mid- vest west We got back on their trail again in n Texas and followed them into Memphis Memphis Mem Mem- toward the end of August Rorer saId aid explaining that Kelly stopped at t the same bungalow In he was vas caught Tuesday The agents began closing in Rorer said after alter Kelly left Memphis September Sep Sep- ember 7 following a 3 wide course ie which carried him to Chicago down into nto Texas and back to Memphis |