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Authors: Joe Urschel

in Ottumwa robbery
Urschel kidnap trial of
in Willmar robbery
women not trusted by

Balzar, Fred

bank robbing.
See also
Kelly, George (“Machine Gun”), as bank robber

Bailey success in
cities in
demise of
getaway car for
people cheering for
people wounded during
St. Paul center for
war on bandits
weapons in

bankers

banking collapse

Barker, Doc

Barker, Fred

Barker, Ma

Barnett, J. E.

Bates, Albert (“Al”)

as Alcatraz inmate
Davis, G., alias of
death of
Denver capture of
Feldman wife of
as Leavenworth inmate
life sentence of
Memorial Day escape of
Urschel exchanged letters with
Urschel kidnap trial of
as Urschel kidnapper
Urschel kidnapper named by Shannon, A.

Bates, Stanford

Beck, E. L.

Bennett, James V.

Bergl, Joe

Berman, Edward

Berniel, Mrs.

Blake, Frank

Boettcher, Anna Lou.
See also
Boettcher kidnap and ransom

Boettcher, Charles II.
See also
Boettcher kidnap and ransom

Boettcher, Claude.
See
Boettcher kidnap and ransom

Boettcher kidnap and ransom

Alcorn in
Alterie and Allegretti implicated in
Boettcher, Claude, paid ransom in
Clark, A., on
Denver police in
Kit taking notice of
Sankey in
as solved by Purvis
vigilante groups on

Bolton, Monty

Bonnie and Clyde

bootlegging

Boulder, CO

Brady, Bob (“Big Bob”)

Brennan, Mr.

Brewer, Allie

Bronson, Charles

Brooks, J. E.

Brooks, Ora.
See
Shannon, Ora

Brown, John A.

Brown, Tom

Brown Palace Hotel

Buchalter, Louis (“Lepke”)

Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, U. S.

the Bureau

as American Gestapo
as “Department of Easy Virtue”
Federal Kidnapping Act support for
Hoover roles at
inept kidnap response of
Nathan assistant director of
as national police force
offices of
powerlessness of
Scotland Yard model for remake of
Urschel case kudos for
witness protection from

Caffrey, Ray

Cagney, James

Campbell, Harry

Caplan, Abe

Caplan, Morris

Capone, Al

as Alcatraz inmate
Bureau rejects, solution to Lindbergh case
in Chicago, IL
Gilbert inside man of
in Hot Spring, AR
as Touhy rival

Capone, Ralph (“Bottles”)

cars.
See
getaway car

Casey, Will

Cassidy, Butch

Catholic Church

Catlett, John

as implicated by Kelly
Urschel ransom through

Cermak, Anton

Chicago, IL

Capone of
citizens band against kidnap in
criminal empire of
Kelly too hot for
Nash, Frank, intended hideout in
“Secret Six” in
Worlds Fair in

Chickasha, OK

Clark, Albert

Clark, Father Joe

Clark, Jim

Cody, Buffalo Bill

Coleman, Cass

Coleman, Gay

Coleman, Mary

Coleman, TX

Colfax, WA

Collier, Rex

Collier’s

Colvin, Ralph

Congress on Racial Equality

Cooper, Courtney Ryley

Ten Thousand Public Enemies
by

Corman, Roger

Cottondale Community Cemetery

crime hotline.
See
national crime hotline

Crime’s Paradise: The Authentic Inside Story of the Urschel Kidnapping
(Kirkpatrick)

criminal empire

cities as
kidnap syndicates of
as larger than U. S. military
local support for
outlawed goods suppliers as
Purple Gang as
Spencer gang as
as tamed by Hoover
as villains
western outlaws modernized in

Cummings, Homer

anti-kidnap plan of
editorials positive for
Hoover Urschel kidnap update to
as inheritor of Lindbergh case
Kelly letter to
prison focus of
“war on crime” of

Cunningham, Miles

Cushing, OK

Daily Oklahoman

Floyd and Bailey spat covered in
Kelly letter to
Kelly trial coverage of
Kit interview in
Urschel kidnap covered in

Dall, Curtis B.

Dallas, TX

Dallas Morning News

Dallas News

Dallas police

Daugherty, Harry

Daughters of the American Revolution

Davis, Ed

Davis, George

Davis, Volney

Decatur, TX

Dempsey, Jack

Denton, TX

Denver, CO

Denver Mint

Denver police

Denver Post

Department of Justice, U. S..
See also
federal agent

Alcatraz rules of
Attorney General
Hyde U. S. Attorney
Keenan Special Agent of
Nash, Frank, arrest of

Depression

American nightmare of
banking collapse in
daredevil pilots upbeat story for
FDR war against
lawlessness pervasive in
misery of

Des Moines, IA

Devil’s Island

Dillinger, John

Director, Bureau of Investigation

Doll, Eddie

Dowd, Edward

Drewer, Cleo

Dunhill, Thomas

Durham, Clarence

Dutch.
See
Sawyer, Harry (“Dutch”)

Eads, Bill

Early, Robert

Earp, Wyatt

Edwards, Mr.

El Paso

Europe

Factor, John.
See
Factor kidnap and ransom

Factor, Max

Factor kidnap and ransom

Faith, J. T.

Farmer, Herbert

FBI.
See
the Bureau

FDR (Roosevelt, Franklin Delano)

assassination escape of
banks target of
election of
as inheritor of Lindbergh case
kidnap focus of
national police force of
New Deal legislation of
prohibition ended by
Salter made Urschel prosecutor by
Shannon, R., clemency by
war against Depression of

federal agent

arrest authority lack for
chase across state lines by
fighting skills focus for
as G-man
as hero
as incorruptible
Kansas City police unhelpful to
Kelly loot recovered by
movie treatment of
Nash, Frank, arrest of
unarmed travel of
weaponry unfamiliar to

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
See
the Bureau

Federal Kidnapping Act

Federal Reserve Bank, Chicago

Feldman, Clara

First National Bank of Oklahoma City

Fitzgerald, Chuck

Floyd, Charles Arthur (“Pretty Boy”)

death of
Kelly often misidentified as
as object of contempt
Oklahoma flight of
as suspect

Ford, Harry

Fort Smith, AR

Fort Worth, TX

Frates, Joseph

Fred Harvey restaurant

Frye, Lonnie

Frye, Pauline

Galatas, Richard

gangs.
See
criminal empire

getaway car

crimes with
customized
Kit driving of
law enforcement outrun by
for Urschel kidnap

Gibson, Dr.

Gilbert, Dan

Gillars, Mildred Sisk (“Axis Sally”)

G-Men

Goetz, M. K.

Gordon, Earl

Goring, Hermann

Great Depression.
See
Depression

Green Lantern tavern

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