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ae €xec AD Adm. Exec AD Inv. Exec AD LES _ Acet, Diss: Adm. Servs, —— Celm, inv. — Ident, inep. ————_-__—_- Intell, Lob. _______—_. Lege! Coun, —— OL. Cong. h Public Affe. __ get. ____.. Rede w nd tab ee Meee ee kad I.C. #7-115 OCTOBER 15, 1935 ae (REVISED MAY, 1984) GEORGE "MACHINE GUN" KELLY, ET AL; : KIDNAPING OF CHARLES F. URSCHEL On 11:15 p.m. on Saturday, July 22, 1933, Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Urschel, one of Oklahoma's weaithiest couples, were playing bridge with their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Jarrett, on a.screened porch of the Urschel residence at Oklahoma City. Two’men, one armed with a machine gun and the other with a pistol, opened the screen door and inquired which of the two men was Mr. Urschel. Receiving no reply, they remarked "Well, we will take both of them." After warning the women against calling for help, they marched Urschel and Jarrett to where they had driven their car, put them into the back of the Chevrolet sedan, and drove rapidly away. Mrs. Urschel, in accordance with the Attorney General's advice to the public, immediately telephoned J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justice. Special Agents were sent to Oklahoma city, where an extensive investigation commenced. At 1:00 a.m., Sunday, July 23, 1933, Jarrett made his way back to the Urschel residence. The victims had been driven to the outskirts of the city, where they had turned right on a dirt road parallel to the 23rd Street Highway and had proceeded northeast to a point about twelve miles from the city. After crossing a small bridge and arriving at an intersection, they had put Jarrett out vf the car after they had identified him and had taken $50 which he had in his wallet, warning him not to tell the direction the kidnapers had gone. He stated that after he was released the car proceeded south. - After the kidnaping became known, numerous letters, telephone calls, and other leads were received, many of which were anonymous, indicating possible leads. All had to be followed, although few were of value. Leads of this nature were developed simultaneously in all parts of the United States. f my Several days elapsed before word wap received from the kidnapers. © On July 26, J. G. Catlett, a wealthy oil man of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and an intimate friend of Urschel, received a package through Western Union. It contained a letter written to him by Ursthe} requesting Catlett to act as an intermediary for his release; a personal letter from Urschel to his wife; ci]