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George Machine Gun Kelly — Part 01
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at Denver, Colorado, on March 27, 1936, rendered a decision
affirming the District Court at Oklahoma City Oklahoma. Laska
surrendered to the U. S. Marshal at Oklahoma City. Oklahoma,.on.
August.l, l936, and was removed to the U. s. Penitentiary at Leaven-
worth, Kansas, on the same date.
Mrs. Mollie O. Bert, a Denver, Colorado, attorney, furnished
some untruthful testimony during the trial of Laska. As a result.
of this testimony, a complaint was filed against Mrs. Bert at Oklahoma.
City.._Oklahoma,. on June 15, l936, charging her with perjury.
She
was released on a $5,ooo bond after a plea of not guilty..
On October l, l936, Mrs. Bert withdrew her plea of not
guilty and entered a plea of nolle contendere and was sentenced
on the same date to serve one year and one day imprisonment, which
sentence was suspended during good behavior for one year..
Twenty-one persons were convicted in this case, the sentences.
years, two months, and three days..
George "Machine Gun" Kelly died of a heart attack at the
Federal Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, on July 17, 1954.
Kathryn Kelly was released from prison in Cincinnati in 1958; she.
was last known to be residing in Oklahoma..
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