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Machine Gun Kelly/H.C.L George Barnes (Machine Gun Kelly) was born on July 18th, 1895. He wasn’t very well known as a young criminal. He made most of his profits as an illegal bootlegger throughout his years and began to make a name for himself underground with his various minor arrests and run-ins with the law. It was in 1927 that he got arrested and put in jail for a couple of months for bootlegging. There he met some bank robbers began his road to infamy. It was in 1930 that George earned his name as George Machine Gun Kelly when he went up to Minnesota with his fiancée Kathryn Throne. There he started a bank robbing spree with Kathryn throne and associates Thomas Holden and Francis Keating skewering the country and robbing any bank …show more content…

They also found that The Kelly Gang had left 73,250 dollars with them in return for their cooperation in hiding them for that time being. Melvin was a widely famous detective especially because he was previously setting out for another famous criminal named John Dillinger. The fact that he would stop his work in order to catch the Kelly Gang made George extremely nervous but being the overconfident dolt he was, he set his eyes to hide out in his home town of Memphis, Tennessee. The kidnapping made headlines all over the U.S. and the Kelly gang was basking in the spotlight. The Kelly’s now on the road evaded capture for weeks after the G-Man (Melvin Purvis’s nickname) caught and arrested about half his time and his in-laws. Escape from the cold depression they had grown up in was now within they’re grasps. They had their ransom money and if they could escape they would be able to live out the rest of their years luxuriously and this dream drove them to do anything they could to succeed The G-man set out a top notch investigation only to find that the Kelly’s were temporarily staying at J.C. Tichenor’s home in Memphis, Tennessee. The home was a small town home owned by the father of one of their gang members. On the morning of September 26th, 1933 the home they were staying was raided. George and Kathryn Kelly were found in there room dressed in their pajamas and George was without his handy machine gun. It is supposed that when

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