# James Ryan ("Silent Jim")

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/james-ryan/

Alcatraz register no. 189. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 4 September 1934 under a 20-year sentence and $10,000 fine for post-office robbery, and a transfer back on 28 April 1942.

The catalog's remark for this register number prints "MEMBER OF TOUHY GANG; ASSAULTED BY CAPONE." This archive has not matched the second part of that remark to any dated record and does not repeat it as fact; the National Park Service names a different inmate as the man who attacked Capone in 1936. The catalog gives a birth date of 02/13/1892 and no death date. 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.

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog: Alcatraz warden's notebook page, register no. 189: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/236734919
- Identification photograph on the Alcatraz warden's notebook page for James Ryan, No. 189, National Archives at San Francisco (NAID 236734919), Records of the Bureau of Prisons. The catalog marks the item "Use Restriction: Unrestricted.": https://catalog.archives.gov/id/236734919