Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Ellsworth Raymond "Bumpy" Johnson, No. 1117
Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Ellsworth Johnson, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 14 April 1954 under a 15-year narcotics sentence from the Southern District of New York. A copy is stored here.
- Date
- 1954-04-14
- Kind
- photograph
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- NAID
- 236734275
- Rights
- A Bureau of Prisons record, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. Series "Warden's Notebook Pages" (NAID 296686), Records of the Bureau of Prisons (Record Group 129). The National Archives catalog marks the item "Use Restriction: Unrestricted." The series note warns that commercial items such as newspaper clippings in the series may be copyrighted; this page is a prison form.
The National Archives catalog titles this page “JOHNSON, ELLSWORTH RAYMOND “BUMPY” - Alcatraz Number 1117 - Warden’s Notebook.” The page records his receipt on Apr. 14, 1954 from Leavenworth, the offense as narcotics (sale of heroin and conspiracy), a 15-year sentence from the Southern District of New York, and a New York criminal history, which this page does not transcribe.
The catalog records a transfer to Atlanta on 12/21/1958 and the remark “RET TO AZ (09-09-59 A - 01-26-63 NE)”. The page prints an FBI number; this archive does not record it as a file number.
The catalog lists access for some notebook pages as “Restricted - Possibly” (staff review); this page is digitized, online, and marked use-unrestricted. The copy stored here is page 1 of four digitized pages.
