Alcatraz warden's notebook page with the identification photograph of Basil Hugh Banghart above typed commitment details. — Open the full imageJPG, 1453 × 1600 px, 0.5 MB

Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Basil Hugh Banghart, No. 595

Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Basil Hugh Banghart, received at Alcatraz from Joliet, Illinois, on 7 January 1943. A copy is stored here.

Date: 1943-01-07
Kind: photograph
Source: National Archives Catalog
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
NAID: 236735894
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 “BANGHART, BASIL HUGH “THE OWL” - Alcatraz Number 595 - Warden’s Notebook.” The identification photograph’s placard reads “U.S. Penitentiary Alcatraz 595”. The page records his receipt on 1-7-43 from Joliet, Illinois, the offenses of mail robbery and conspiracy, and a 1942 escape from Joliet.

The catalog’s remark field reads “MEMBER OF TOUHY GANG”. That is the catalog’s wording; the FBI’s own caption on its Banghart booking photograph also places him in the Touhy gang. The catalog records a transfer to the state prison at Joliet on 12/04/1954.

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 the first page, downsampled to 1600 pixels from the 8.9 MB catalog file; three further pages are digitized.

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