# Commitment of George R. Kelly (16 October 1933)

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The court's commitment of George R. "Machine Gun" Kelly to custody after his life sentence in the Urschel kidnaping case, dated 16 October 1933.

The National Archives catalogs this item as the commitment of George R. "Machine Gun" Kelly in United States v. George R. Kelly, dated October 16, 1933, with two page images and a PDF.

A commitment is the court's order delivering a sentenced defendant to the marshal and the prison. His [Alcatraz notebook page](/items/nara-236734340-george-kelly-alcatraz-1934/) records the life sentence dated October 12, 1933 and his transfer to Alcatraz from Leavenworth in September 1934. The commitment was not transcribed for this archive.

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75815995