# Indictment in United States v. Albert Bates, et al., Urschel kidnaping (23 August 1933)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-75815532-urschel-indictment-1933/

Ten-page federal indictment of 23 August 1933 against Albert L. Bates, George R. Kelly, Kathryn Thorne Kelly, Harvey J. Bailey, the Shannons and others for the conspiracy to kidnap Charles F. Urschel.

The National Archives catalogs this item as the indictment of August 23, 1933 in the Urschel kidnaping prosecution, ten page images. The research for this archive records the names in the indictment as Albert L. Bates, George R. Kelly, Kathryn Thorne Kelly, Harvey J. Bailey, R. G. Shannon, Armon Crawford Shannon and Ora L. Shannon, together with Charles Wolk, Sam Kronick, Edward Berman, Peter Valder, Sam Kozberg, Clifford Skelly and Isadore Blumenfeld; the names George C. King and John Brown also appear.

An indictment is an accusation. The outcomes differ by defendant: the Alcatraz notebook pages for Kelly, Bates and Bailey record life sentences for those three and list Wolk and Valder as "dismissed" and Kronick and Blumenfeld as "not guilty." The FBI's history page gives the date of the indictment as the same August 23, 1933. The pages were not transcribed for this archive.

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75815532