{"id":4673,"date":"2017-06-28T07:08:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T14:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightfast.com\/blog\/?p=4673"},"modified":"2021-04-05T14:31:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T14:31:13","slug":"good-kidnap-victim-mark-hatmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/28\/good-kidnap-victim-mark-hatmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Be A Good Kidnap Victim By Mark Hatmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"George \"Machine Gun\" Kelly, was a Depression-era gangster with one of the most colorful names going. Let's face it, it beats the hell out of Baby Face or Pretty Boy, or Creepy. Despite the formidable name Kelly was a little less deadly than the moniker belies, associates in\nAlcatraz where he spent 21-years of his life referred to him as \"Pop Gun\" Kelly due to his model prisoner status and less than gangstery ways.\n\n\nGeorge Kelly, though not a cold-blooded killer, was, indeed, a criminal. He had numerous charges of bootlegging which in and of itself is not so glamorous a crime. It seems his wife, Kathryn Kelly, played the role of reputation-promoter, she gave him the name \"Machine\nGun\" and sought to create the reputation that George himself did not really warrant.\n\nThe world may not have taken much notice of the dapper bootlegger had it not been for a switch in modus operandi<\/em>. It seems the Kelly gang thought that there might be more money to be made in kidnapping than illegal liquor sales so they set their sites on one, Charles F. Urschel, a wealthy oil magnate in Oklahoma.\n\nKelly and his gang barged in on a bridge game at Urschel's residence on July 22, 1933. The almost comically ill-prepared gang encountered two men at the bridge table and were not sure which one was Urschel so they took both men, Urschel and his guest Walter Jarrett. Once on the road Urschel declared who he was and urged them to set Jarrett free, which they did.\n\nUrschel was blindfolded from the get-go and wound up being held in a farmhouse in Paradise, Texas for over a week. He was released on July 30th after a ransom of $200,000 dollars was paid by the family.\n\nThe FBI was involved from the beginning of the case thanks to new kidnapping as Federal crime legislation following the tragedy that was\nthe Lindburgh Baby Kidnapping.\n\nThe FBI receives the credit for capturing Kelly and his gang, but what must be pointed to is the fact that this might not have been done if\nit were not for the amazing observational prowess of Urschel himself.\n\nDespite being blindfolded for much of the time, Urschel managed to:\n