Machine Gun Kelly Biography

Machine Gun Kelly biography

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NAME: Machine Gun Kelly
OCCUPATION: Criminal
BIRTH DATE: c. 1897
DEATH DATE: 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH: Tennessee

PLACE OF DEATH: Alcatraz, California
Originally: George R. Kelly

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Machine Gun Kelly was an American bootlegger, bank robber and kidnapper who made headlines in the 1930s.

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Machine Gun Kelly was a bootlegger, small-time bank robber and kidnapper who ranged through Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s. Abetted by his wife, Kathryn, whom he married in 1927, he joined gangs whose exploits won press headlines. Much of his life was spent in prison (1925, 1930–31, 1933 until death); he died at the federal penitentiary at Alcatraz