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FATE OF GIRLS WHO CONSORT WITH GUN MENLuxury—And Tears!Fear That Haunts The Lives OfCriminals’ Girl Friends‘The woman pays' is an old saying. And if she be the consort of criminals she probably pays heavily—with tears, mental anguish and maybe a prison sentence.What of the women who link their lives with gun-men and other desperadoes) The fate of Kathryn Kelly and Norma Milieu furnishes a grim proof of what happens to their type.Kathryn Kelly, slim, red-haired Mississippi girl, gave America probably the most spectacular example o( Moman In crime that it hat known. The pretty wife of Georqe •Machine Gun” Kelly went the rente ol excitement, terror and disaster that is the lot of a big-time criminal’s girl.TiuiihV i aim* r*:.r’v to 111i- pet.ilr pii\ t»o»n iii SnUilli*. M hwm-ipp'. At !,’• «*lu* Lit high ecUool to muvr. Thnt maniig’ gave lici a daughter. but if w;iw a millin'. Then site married Churl*. Thome, a ont-tie ninrlwr. Thorne mi* found dead —pre •amiably .1 witolde -anil a note naiil: *’l «•lt;n’t live with her or without hoi.** Kathryn from that time on showed 1 T dri once for lt;oli-oitin« w ith Minimal* • ml racketeer* who had innnev for bright fight- mu! for gnudy clothe*. She met Willie Kiihm*. hoid-wp man and hmphir. orrlil Itntwo «;h lonvietdl mid erufeiued for n fur robbery. Then, in MWO. rtie met George Kelly, a Memphis hoodlum. «t n imity in San Antonio. Texa«. and found*him hrr ideftl—a bhwtering. touch eiiniinal underneath n genial exterior. She louiiil hin uttenf.oiif plenMiig and decided hlu' loved him. They married nml *ln* w a* ready fo ulmre hie life, come w hat might.She learned quickly the GOOD TIMES ANDprice o* the THE FINEKefCLOTHESIv wiw “advancing” in crime. (nkim; part in \nriou activities of gang* in neve* ril riticx, earning the moniikcr of “Ma-ehiue Gnu” Kelly. In the SmdIi-We*t hi* pal* were Hnrvey Hailrv. Vci ne Mdler .rod Albert Italic. She had 'o have more than n piinive part in Kelly'* operation*. She bought n .a/nhine gun for him in Fort Worth, Texan.In 11X1 *)ie wn* in the home of her ci.i nilpii rent* in Strut ford, Okla.. with Kelly and Hales when they enid: A man j« going to hi* kidnapped m Oklahoma (ilx* tonight.” The next day when nhe wa- there, her hnnhand brought Charhy* F. TTi -• hel, kidnapped for “M.ftUfl dollar* rari-out! And went to the Pnmdi-e. Tcxae, fmm of her mother and her step father. ’Mi*, and Mrs. It. G. Shannon, when T’n» hrl wan taken there to Ik* hidden dm hig taiirtom negotiation*.Then, after Vtfchr) wn* reM.i'od on payment cd CUO.OoO dolfnin. Knthryn wan on the mu with her kidnapper huxbnnd. limited by Federal men lor the higge-t rnn*.m grab in the new r.iekcl. She r»mr home from fdiupping to their MinncnpoH-hid.-out andKelly showed her 100,000 ran ftgam-(o Chicag^. the South and the South-occasional roi-ferine even-rlnhs. hut nlwnv- withhair Kalhryndoll,ii.. They t Icvi-Iaiid. to Went, having ing.lt; iu nightTERROR OF CAPTURE fo Mind then inn. Kellv dvrd Id-yellow .“They'll yet i,. sure. George” would war.he would reply. “What do yon carrying * machine grin in wr ‘n automatic in me kirk* LMen. baby, yon keep quiet or r„u might :rt killed accidentally.Kathryn learned the fate of the criminal's girl. She faced not only the peril of Department of Justice guns, but also the danger of being slain byYeli?” think I'm hag for. nndShe dared not rot seek safetythe man she loved! flea from him, dared alone.They -o’d their hi** ( .idilhie and rod-in a «jc*v»nion of kuuiII i-u», Ih.jui ^ f«»r oliM'Uiity. I)‘»wii iu Tcx.'o. neni lla-c*. liny were !»»*r*jniig on the nwv -. lining a an.all truck. K.-M\ (•topped t m ike tele phone '.ill* to hi* contact* end KnlhtvU drove ju the vicinity and pu.k**d up m.-.uo hitdi-liiken*. Luther \inohl and hi* wife and davuihter. Gernldinr. 1- • n* old.With *ieialtiine Arnold in their cue, tin* K.*|l.w drove to Sm \ntonift with Federal a^ent* lint on tlie I rail. I hev drove on fo Hih.xi. MifrH.. and tlun In Mcmphiii.I'lt;*. lei a I agent* a««ixed Amohl nnd learned of h:i C1.* ill act nil Ii llie fiigiliu*- K*lfy ii'id liisWIFE TOOK Aiv M-'iuphii*. nnd thethehimFed -m I in lmBUNGALOWkidii-ippei t'loi'irli*•lent ha aoiihl mi h»ok :Vir home town. The pr.*m*»'ce .•Gci.ii line ^rnohl wan daogeiouii. and it vv,m decided !lt;» send her to her parent-. Kathryn, pnrtii.ulmly, wj* ineigtcnt that Geraldine mIiouM go.One day Gcraldiut- xteppej off a train or Oklahoma City. Federal ■gentlt; wore there to meet her. She gave them the .iJdrvM* of Kelly m hide-out. Federal men tlow Horn Chicago and other points, nnd 10» mae.-ed in Mempfiw. They stoimed the hungah.vv nnd grabbed Kelly and liia wife. Tlo* crimin.i! and In- girl had reached tin* end ui the trail.What wax L-hind Geraldine Arnold** tip-off to i In* Federal men? Wax her cr-1.1ml really jm»in,gcd by Kathryn Kelly? \V,.» *'Machine Gnu George n-ally a ric-tiin. o! hi, gii i'a act ot betrayal—victim of »|n* citi iini-tami'b that he rm tied fo :t w.unnn inextricably, one who know his g'lvl*. one wlolt; 1b* 1 with him Knthnn — and who M*pir»,*nud d uiRor to him u'dcn Ik* killed hei ?(icrnldiin* ArnoM idi.ire./ the reward for the ^..lotii.ii of the l'i.-.hi*l kidnapping, and the Department *f Juxlice main*taincdITS CUSTOMARY SECRECYbut poliie. at inlying Ibe i a«*. ibongbt it odd tli.d the chib! alone be credited with Holding the tip-ofl to Fed ora I men: itacemevl nio.-t likc'y f! i- Kathryn Kellywanted to end the dav* and night a of•error, tin* danger of being s’ain by bcr h'lKo.ind, I be danger of being -lain by of-tiret,; n inted real and pcalt;e oven if it were in pi ismi.Kathryn Kelly accused her hut-band In tha Fedar.il Court In Oklahoma City while her own daughter watched her sorrowfully; she heard her mother and her lt;tepfather denounced as having harbored kidnappers with their victim; she hoard horsVf denounced by Assistant Attorney General K©8nen as equally guilty with her husband In one of the country's most startling kidnap-pinos. And she heard her husband s ntenced to prison. And theo shet imrmA /’TI/MTbecamo a convict herself. lodijrd In a Federal reformatory tor Hie. Kathryn Kelly reaped the full harvest of brief years a? a criminal’s consorl.The fate or Soiinn I! i\tMilieu, beautiful daughter of a M.,-*lt;• rliijiictl* ilergymnu, hbow* etattinglv a different a*.j**ct ot the p:etme of w.mcu among i-iiiuiaala. It is apparent ami often pnwed t lint nome women who Iveccmo even aetunl aid* o: gun-men nnd kidnap-pen in limit’ crime* have rcmli.'d t mtMt.1t UKBY GRADUAL STAGESaftc.r .in innocent beginning, iilt. i I.. lt;....*• iog iutatiiate.r with or matrying m • . nlt;i* known to them incnminnL. fu nc. .v « the hiHliaml begin- in erime after p- • • -ringe and the wife tbuu becomOM iiivubcl.Xorm.i. lovely product of XMv '«..ic fiui*bing ixhooJ-. went to a bc.icli din.o near her S.uirU, \la*•*«.. limit.- in IfUk. nnd tlofe met. Miiitm, Mdl-n. wtiH tall and dark and peiu«*ivc. Sins fell i»» love with Iiim lint mulif, fur she wan IS and lomantio. He i.nne o ten 'o ■fC bet for a nmulli mol ibc eloped vvi -i him. Nbe -aw Mm in I he i.nfio »hop n ItoMtoii, iu which In* and fu* hiolbei living weie inteicMed. Noium w.o* i li ppjr hi ide.Dining following month- -In- vnr be bad a great deal of money and often Iia.J . • ca-ionFOR MYSTERIOUS ERRANDSand feiadunh'v there c.mie indu iiii. |a W*- engaged in aonie kind of .'liinii. il « cn-fttre*. Hut Norma w .i- iet.itn il.* I .v * » Iiim. She didn't know then that. I u • tincite in (rngcdv’ wan awaiting Ip..On Vehniniv 2. Itkll. three gm *i tfniniArt the Nis'dhiim TiuM ( .ij..«• , .it Nenlhaiu. .Man-., killed Voliccn.-, F.d .-* McLeod and Frank Haddock, ami n* toeff with 4K*o Uolbii*. The rli•- ov • v .» tha get-away car. huimd. gave tin- Si i!c p.. ;lt;*• a elm* of a hat tiny plate wliicb they (raced l» Mm ton Millen.Dele, five, I .iiif .1 ih.it Mi'!,(CONTINUED ON PAGEi -i t13A“FOlt;
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Perth New Call and Baileys Weekly
Perth, Western Australia, AU
Thu, May 21, 1936
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