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iia ee oe Investigation disclosed that the hacksaws and revolver were smuggled in to Bailey by Thomas L. Manion, a deputy sheriff ~ and jailer at the Dallas County Jail, and that one Groover C. Bevill of Dallas; Texas, had purchased the hacksaws and assisted Manion in making it possible for Bailey to escape. For this offense Manion and Bevill were indicted at Dallas, Texas, on September 25, 1933, and tried and convicted on October 5. Manion was sentenced on Octgber 7 to-pay a fine of $10,000 and to serve two years in the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, and Bevill was sentenced to serve 14 months in the same institution. While the Bureau was collecting evidence for the trial of Harvey J. Bailey, et al, at Oklahoma City, and for the trial of Manion and Bevill at Dallas, Texas, it was also pursuing efforts to apprehend George and Kathryn Kelly. During the trial at Oklahoma City, they sent a number of threatening letters to Urschel and Joseph B. Keeyan, Assistant Attorney General, who was in charge of the prosecution at Oklahoma City, threatening their lives and intimidating Government witnesses. THE KELLYS ARE CAPTURED An investigation conducted at Memphis disclosed that the Kellys were living at the residence of J. C. Tichenor. Special Agents | from Birmingham, Alabama, were immediately dispatched to Memphis, where, in the early morning hours of September 26, 1933, a raid was conducted and George and Kathryn Kelly taken into custody by FBI Agents and Memphis police. Caught without a weapon, George Kelly cried, "Dont't shoot, G-Men! Don't shoot G-Men!" as he surrendered to FBI Agents. The term, which had applied to all Federal investigators, became synonymous with FBI Agents. The couple was immediately removed to Oklahoma City. On October 12, 1933, George and Kathryn Kelly were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. - Investigation at Coleman, Texas, disclosed that the Kellys had been housed and protected by Cassey Earl Coleman and Will Casey, and that Coleman had assisted George Kelly in storing $73,250 of the Urschel ransom money on his ranch. This money was located by Bureau Agents in the early morning hours of September 27 in a cotton patch on Coleman's ranch. They were both indicted at Dallas, Texas, on October 4, 1933, charged with harboring a fugitive and conspiracy, and on October 17, 1933, Coleman, after entering a plea of guilty, was sentenced to serve one year and one day, and Casey, after trial and conviction, was sentenced to serve two years in the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. - Jl -