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Machine Gun Kelly
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 in sight. He received his name after his favorite Thompson machine gun he used to obliterate any obstacle in his way. Kelly was also tried at various occasions to become a kidnapper. Later on Kelly pulled his most infamous heist of abducting Charles F. Urschel. Urschel was an extremely wealthy Oklahoma oil man and Kelly held him at a ransom of two hundred thousand dollars. They got their ransom on July 30th and returned Charles the next day. In these times of poverty people who went back at the wealthy were considered heroes by some and became legends in the long run. Machine Gun Kelly was one of the most Notorious of his time for doing so. It all started on July 18th, 1895 where George Barnes was born as a commoner in Memphis Tennessee in a traditional household. It was during his teenage years he bootlegged as a source of income. He sold anything he could for a little extra cash whether it was legal or not and it reflected in his school work/grades. During these times the country was spiraling in debt and the economy began to plummet in terms of prosperity. George knew that leading the average life wouldn’t feed him the content and fulfillment he yearned to have in his youth. Before his life of serious crime he attended at A


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