Similar claims were made in several 1937 American Magazine articles co-authored by Hoover. Edgar Hoover, Kelly worked with Kathryn and Eddie Doll in the kidnapping of a wealthy manufacturer in South Bend, Indiana, for a $50,000 ransom. Īccording to Persons in Hiding, a 1938 book by FBI Director J. She also went to great lengths to familiarize his name within underground crime circles. Shortly thereafter, Kelly married Kathryn Thorne, an experienced criminal who purchased Kelly's first machine gun and insisted-despite his lack of interest in weapons-that he perform target practice in the countryside. He was reportedly a model inmate and was released early. He was arrested in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1928, for smuggling liquor onto a Native American Reservation, and sentenced to three years at Leavenworth Penitentiary, Kansas, beginning February 11, 1928. He continued to commit smaller crimes and bootlegging. To protect his family and to escape law enforcement officers, he changed his name to George R. After a short time, and several run-ins with the local Memphis police, he decided to leave town and head west with his girlfriend. Career ĭuring the Prohibition era of the 1920s and 1930s, Kelly worked as a bootlegger for himself as well as a colleague. Kelly quickly fell in love with Geneva and made an abrupt decision to quit school and marry. It was during this time that Kelly met a young woman by the name of Geneva Ramsey. He was constantly in trouble with the faculty and spent much of his academic career attempting to work off the demerits he had earned. From the beginning, Kelly was considered a poor student with his highest grade (a C plus) awarded for good physical hygiene.
Kelly's first sign of trouble came when he enrolled in Mississippi State University to study agriculture in 1917. His crimes also included bootlegging and armed robbery. Urschel had collected and left considerable evidence that assisted the subsequent FBI investigation, which eventually led to Kelly's arrest in Memphis on September 26, 1933. Urschel in July 1933, from which he and his gang collected a $200,000 ransom. He is best known for the kidnapping of oil tycoon and businessman Charles F. His nickname came from his favorite weapon, a Thompson submachine gun.
George Kelly Barnes (J – July 18, 1954), better known by his pseudonym " Machine Gun Kelly", was an American gangster from Memphis, Tennessee, active during the Prohibition era.
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