Commitment of George R. Kelly (16 October 1933)

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.

Date: 1933-10-16
Kind: case-file
Source: National Archives Catalog
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
NAID: 75815995
Docket: CR10478
Rights: A record of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, held by the National Archives in Record Group 21, Records of District Courts of the United States. A United States government work, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The National Archives catalog marks use "Unrestricted." File "10478: United States v. Albert Bates, et. al." (NAID 66383199), series "Criminal Case Files" (NAID 650898), National Archives at Fort Worth.

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 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.

itemTranscript of testimony, United States v. George R. Kelly and Kathryn Kelly (October 1933)The 564-page transcript of the October 1933 federal trial of George R. Kelly and Kathryn Kelly at Oklahoma City for the Urschel kidnaping.

itemAlcatraz warden's notebook page for George R. Kelly, No. 117Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of George R. Kelly, No. 117, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 4 September 1934 under a life sentence for kidnapping from the Western District of Oklahoma. A copy is stored here.itemCommitment of Kathryn Thorne Kelly (20 October 1933)The court's commitment of Kathryn Thorne Kelly, alias Catherine Kelly, after her life sentence for conspiracy in the Urschel kidnaping, dated 20 October 1933.