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1933-09-30

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Instructions to the jury in United States v. Albert Bates, et al. (30 September 1933)

The court's forty-page charge to the jury in the first Urschel kidnaping trial at Oklahoma City, dated 30 September 1933.

Date
1933-09-30
Kind
case-file
Source
National Archives Catalog
Retrieved
2026-10-12
NAID
75815718
Docket
CR10478
Rights
A record of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, held by the National Archives in Record Group 21, Records of District Courts of the United States. A United States government work, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The National Archives catalog marks use "Unrestricted." File "10478: United States v. Albert Bates, et. al." (NAID 66383199), series "Criminal Case Files" (NAID 650898), National Archives at Fort Worth.

The catalog note reads: “These are the instructions to the jury on how they should judge the facts. The case also involved George R. ‘Machine’ Kelly and his wife Kathryn Thorne Kelly.” The item is dated September 30, 1933 and has forty page images.

The first trial was of the defendants then in custody; the Kellys were still at large. The FBI’s history page says that on September 30 the jury returned guilty verdicts against R. G. Shannon, Ora L. Shannon, Armon Shannon, Albert L. Bates, Harvey J. Bailey and others. The instructions themselves were not transcribed for this archive.

item10478: United States v. Albert Bates, et al. (Western District of Oklahoma): the Urschel kidnaping fileNational Archives file unit for the federal prosecution of the Urschel kidnaping at Oklahoma City. The defendants included George R. "Machine Gun" Kelly and Kathryn Thorne Kelly. The filings are catalogued as separate items.itemIndictment in United States v. Albert Bates, et al., Urschel kidnaping (23 August 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.itemShannon v. United States, 76 F.2d 490 (10th Cir. 1935)The Tenth Circuit's affirmance of the convictions of R. G. Shannon and Ora L. Shannon in the Urschel kidnaping. It recites how Urschel was held at the Shannon property and rejects the defense of coercion.itemBailey v. United States, 74 F.2d 451 (10th Cir. 1934)The Tenth Circuit's affirmance of Harvey J. Bailey's conviction and life sentence for conspiracy under the federal kidnaping act of 22 June 1932 in the Urschel case.