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Warden's Notebook page for Alcatraz inmate 331, Richard T. Galatas, with a mug shot, sentence details and a Reason For Transfer box
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Alcatraz Warden's Notebook page: Richard Tallman Galatas, No. 331

A Bureau of Prisons notebook page for Alcatraz inmate 331: conspiracy, two years and a $10,000 fine from W.D. Missouri, received 6 August 1936 from Leavenworth and transferred back 25 September 1937, with a 'Reason For Transfer' that refers to the murder of officers returning Frank Nash.

Date
1936/1937
Kind
case-file
Source
National Archives Catalog
Retrieved
2026-10-12
NAID
236735236
Rights
A federal record held by the National Archives; the catalog gives the use restriction as "Unrestricted". A work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105.

The National Archives at San Francisco holds this page in the series “Warden’s Notebook Pages” (Record Group 129, Bureau of Prisons). It is headed in red “Transferred to USP Leavenworth, September 25, 1937” and shows the name Richard T. Galatas, No. 331, received 6 August 1936 from Leavenworth. The offense is “Conspiracy,” dated 5 January 1935, sentence “2 years & $10,000 fine,” district “W/Missouri-Kansas City.” A red note says he was released on writ and bond on 17 January 1935 and returned on 28 March 1936. A photograph of the inmate is on the page, and the catalog’s data field gives the remark “KCUS MASSACRE.”

The “Reason For Transfer” box reads in part: “The instant offense of conspiracy in which subject participated resulted in the most serious & flagrant defiance of law & order which has occured in recent history. His acts culminated in the brutal murders of officers who were returning Frank Nash, a desperate criminal, to USP Leavenworth. Committee recommends: Transfer as a matter of Public Policy.” The box is the prison committee’s language in 1936 and is quoted as such. The page also lists the co-defendants and an arrest history, which are not repeated here. The text was read from the page image stored here; a downscaled copy is shown.

itemAlcatraz warden's notebook page for Frank B. Mulloy, No. 330Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Frank B. Mulloy, No. 330, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 6 August 1936 under a two-year sentence and $10,000 fine for conspiracy (Western District of Missouri, Kansas City); a red header records transfer to Leavenworth on 25 September 1937. A copy is stored here.itemUnited States v. Richard Tallman Galatas, et al. (W.D. Mo.), criminal case file SS100The National Archives file of the conspiracy case against Galatas and co-defendants runs 593 digitized pages; the first scan is a Leavenworth form of 7 July 1936 in which prisoner Louis Stacci states he was sentenced on 5 January 1935 to two years and a $10,000 fine.