George Kelly's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 117 (National Archives catalog entry)
Catalog entry for the Alcatraz case file of register no. 117, with 1,410 digitized pages. The description gives receipt from Leavenworth on 4 September 1934 and transfer back on 29 May 1951.
- Date
- 1934-09-04/1951-05-29
- Kind
- finding-aid
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- NAID
- 117696360
- Rights
- A catalog description of a Bureau of Prisons inmate case file (Record Group 129), a United States government record, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The catalog marks the file unit use and access "Unrestricted"; the parent series (NAID 622809) is marked "Restricted - Possibly" for copyright (newspaper clippings) and privacy, so the contents of a file need a page-by-page check.
The catalog title is “KELLY, GEORGE B. “MACHINE GUN” - Alcatraz Number 117.” The file unit belongs to the series Comprehensive Case Files of Former Inmates Incarcerated at U.S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz, California, in the Records of the Bureau of Prisons at the National Archives at San Francisco. The catalog lists 1,410 digitized page images, named in the form 622809-az0117-kelly-COM_0001 to 1410.
The catalog description gives these fields: offense “KIDNAPPING [& HOLDING FOR RANSOM (URSCHEL)]”; received at Alcatraz 09/04/1934; transferred 05/29/1951 to US Penitentiary, Leavenworth. Those are the catalog’s entries, not readings of the file.
Pages 1 and 3 were viewed for this archive. Page 1 is the folder cover, stamped “TRANSFERRED TO LEAVENWORTH MAY 29 1951.” Page 3 is a typed letter of March 23, 1959 from a private correspondent to the Leavenworth warden, asking dates of death for former inmates, with handwritten answers; the writer’s name and address are on the page, and this archive does not reproduce it. The pages are in no particular order, so the commitment papers must be found by paging. The warden’s notebook page for the same register number prints “GEORGE R.” where this catalog title prints “GEORGE B.”
