Notebook of Russell Gibson, Barker-Karpis gang, with a bullet hole (FBI artifact)
FBI photograph of a notebook that belonged to Russell Gibson, recovered after he was fatally wounded confronting agents in Chicago on 8 January 1935. The FBI says it "bears a distinctive bullet hole."
- Date
- 1935-01-08
- Kind
- photograph
- Source
- FBI, History: Artifacts
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Rights
- Published by the FBI on fbi.gov as an artifact photograph with no third-party credit; a work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The copy stored here is the FBI's web image converted to JPEG.
The FBI describes the notebook as belonging to Russell Gibson, a member of the Barker-Karpis gang, and says it was recovered after his death. According to the page, Gibson confronted agents in Chicago on 8 January 1935 “while he was wearing a bullet-proof vest, but he was fatally wounded,” and the notebook “bears a distinctive bullet hole.”
The same Artifact of the Month page (January 2018) also describes the Laboratory’s silver nitrate method for raising latent prints on the Hamm ransom notes. This page takes only the notebook and the vest statement from it. The stored image is small, 508 by 768 pixels.
Object: Notebook with a bullet hole
Maker: not stated
Date: recovered after 8 January 1935
Provenance: held by the FBI; the page gives no chain of custody
Appears in: FBI, Artifact of the Month, January 2018