The Year of Fear by Joe Urschel

Author:Joe Urschel
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781250020802
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

The Courier-Journal got a similar note of appreciation from the Bureau’s director.

While Hoover was accepting the praise for his department and ramping up its publicity machine, the hunt for Kelly spread out across the nation. A motorcycle officer in Oklahoma City came forward and revealed that he had formerly had a drinking buddy who was an ex-con. One night, on a drunk, the ex-con told the officer that he had information about “something that may do you some good.”

The con said, “I was a cell mate in the penitentiary with a boy named George Kelly. Two days before those officers and Frank Nash were killed in Kansas City, I met George Kelly and another man in Tulsa. They went to a house where they cleaned and oiled two machine guns and said they were then on their way to Kansas City.”

It was just about all the Bureau had in trying to tie Kelly to the Kansas massacre, but despite their efforts they could not locate the ex-con and were too stretched to chase down the lead.

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On Thursday, August 17, five days after the raid at Paradise, rumors that gangsters were planning to spring Bailey started hitting the papers. The Dallas police boasted that extra patrols were guarding the roads in and out of the city. Even so, Bailey had already bragged to reporters that no cell could hold him.

On August 18, The Dallas News answered these threats and boasts with a proud description of just how tough it would be for Bailey to slip free from the new jail. Under the headline Seven Barred Doors or Grills Face Gangsters if they try to Spring Bailey from Jail, the story contained a detailed description of what “a gang of gangsters or a mob of mobsters” would encounter in their attempt to even get to Bailey:

On the first floor they would have to fight their way through the lobby of the Criminal Courts Building to reach the heavy door that gives into the outer lobby of the jail. Similar difficulty would be encountered if they approached from the rear through the alley at the entrance of which is a high, barred gate.

If they succeeded in reaching the door they would have to crash it and then fight their way another fifteen feet to reach the ceiling-to-floor heavy steel grill in the main lobby of the jail. Then they would have to crash that door and fight their way to another door in the elevator corridor.

Should they succeed in riding the elevator to the floor where the prisoner is held, then they would face another ceiling-high grill of heavy steel bars. Still between the raiders and the cell block would be a barred door. Passing this door there would yet be between them and their quarry the heavy bars surrounding the corridor, and the inside corridor, the cell door itself.

Jones wanted to leave Bailey in the Dallas jail until he was ready for trial in Oklahoma City rather than risk losing him in transit or putting him in the far less secure jail in Oklahoma.

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