Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-08-01 | Page 1 | Man without Country Faces Life at Sea as Nations of World Close Doors to Him

Man Without Country Faces Life at Sea As Nations of World Close Doors to Him TACOMA Wash ash Aug 1 UP CUP Forbidden to enter every nation na na- na tion in Jn the world Frank Kelley was on the high seas seas in a Gr Greek ek tramp steamer today a modern man without a country He Is headed for tor buthe buthe but he wont won't go ashore when he e gets gets' there be because ause he is not welcome in China Unless the bars are let down in o some corner of Lb the world Kelley will spend pend the rest of his bis lif life on the seas On a cold January January- day in 19 1925 Kelley and Frank Gorman held up p the Bothell State bank Bothell Wash and subsequently were sentenced to 20 29 l to 30 years in prison Gorman escaped after serving several years and has never nevet been captured Two years ago Governor Gover Gayer nor Clarence D. D Martin pardoned Kelley after he had spent pont 11 21 years as a a. convict A native of Ireland Kelley proposed proposed proposed pro pro- pro pro- posed to go back to the old country country country coun coun- try but he wasn wasn't t acceptable there officials told him because ho he was not a resident In 1922 1922 when the country became a free state stat Facing ac n d deportation porta io K Kelley and his attorneys searched throughout the world for a country co that would I permit him to take up up residence on its us soil but none would have j him