It’s official! Proud to announce I’ll be writing a book for Kensington Publishing entitled Meet the Kellys: The Life and Times of Gangsters Machine Gun Kelly and Kathryn Thorne Kelly. All the world likes an outlaw. For some darn reason they remember them. Thank you, Gary Goldstein!
American gangster George Kelly Barnes (1895 – 1954), aka Machine Gun Kelly, with his wife Kathryn at their trial for the kidnapping of businessman Charles F. Urschel, at the Federal Court in Oklahoma City, 9th October 1933. Kelly has a bump on his head after being hit with a pistol butt during an altercation on his arrival at court. Kelly and his wife pleaded guilty and were sentenced to life imprisonment. (Photo by FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
