Harvey Bailey
Alcatraz register no. 139. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 4 September 1934 under a life sentence for kidnapping and holding for ransom, and a transfer back on 8 September 1946.
- Born
- 1887-08-23
- Died
- 1979-03-01
- Rights
- Biography on this page is limited to what the cited federal records state. The identification photograph is a Bureau of Prisons record, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105.
On the record
- 1934-09-04 — The warden's notebook page (NAID 236734616) records him received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth, age 47, offense "Kidnapping & Holding for Ransom," dated Oct. 7, 1933, sentence "Life," district "W/Okla., (Okla., City)."
- 1934-09-04 — The catalog description prints the offense as "KIDNAPPING & HOLDING FOR RANSOM (URSCHEL)."
- 1946-09-08 — The page is stamped "TRANSFERRED SEP 8 1946" with a handwritten "to Leav"; the catalog gives a transfer on 09/08/1946 to US Penitentiary, Leavenworth.
- 1979-03-01 — The catalog description gives a death date of 03/01/1979 at Joplin, Missouri.
- 1933-06-17 — A staff note on the notebook page says that before the conviction recorded there he was wanted in connection with the Union Station killings at Kansas City on June 17, 1933. That is a staff statement on a prison form, not a finding; this page takes nothing about the Kansas City killings from it.
The National Archives lists Bailey at register number 139. His notebook page prints the birth date 8/23/87, which matches the catalog’s 08/23/1887. The case file, about 2,000 pages, is described in the catalog but is not digitized. The role and family fields are left empty because no record cited here states either. Offenses are given as the notebook form prints them; the “Reason for Transfer” boxes are staff opinion and are not used.
Records
itemAlcatraz warden's notebook page for Harvey J. Bailey, No. 139Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Harvey J. Bailey, No. 139, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 4 September 1934 under a life sentence for kidnapping and holding for ransom; stamped transferred to Leavenworth on 8 September 1946. A copy is stored here.itemHarvey Bailey's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 139 (National Archives catalog entry)Catalog entry for the Alcatraz case file of register no. 139, about 2,000 pages, not digitized. The description gives receipt from Leavenworth on 4 September 1934 and transfer back on 8 September 1946.itemAlcatraz (Federal Bureau of Prisons history page)The Bureau of Prisons' history page on Alcatraz names Al Capone among the well-known criminals who did time there, and says most of its prisoners were not well-known gangsters.itemAlcatraz warden's notebook page for Harvey J. Bailey, No. 139Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Harvey J. Bailey, No. 139, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 4 September 1934 under a life sentence for kidnapping and holding for ransom; stamped transferred to Leavenworth on 8 September 1946. A copy is stored here.itemCommitment of Harvey J. Bailey (12 October 1933)The court's commitment of Harvey J. Bailey, with the aliases J. J. Brennan, John Brown and R. G. McDonald, after his conviction in the Urschel kidnaping case, dated 12 October 1933.itemAgreed statement of facts, United States v. Harvey J. Bailey (28 May 1934)Eighteen-page agreed statement of facts of 28 May 1934, prepared for Harvey J. Bailey's appeal from his conviction in the Urschel kidnaping case.itemBailey v. United States, 74 F.2d 451 (10th Cir. 1934)The Tenth Circuit's affirmance of Harvey J. Bailey's conviction and life sentence for conspiracy under the federal kidnaping act of 22 June 1932 in the Urschel case.itemIndictment in United States v. Albert Bates, et al., Urschel kidnaping (23 August 1933)Ten-page federal indictment of 23 August 1933 against Albert L. Bates, George R. Kelly, Kathryn Thorne Kelly, Harvey J. Bailey, the Shannons and others for the conspiracy to kidnap Charles F. Urschel.itemInstructions to the jury in United States v. Albert Bates, et al. (30 September 1933)The court's forty-page charge to the jury in the first Urschel kidnaping trial at Oklahoma City, dated 30 September 1933.