# James C. "Tex" Lucas

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/james-tex-lucas/

Alcatraz register no. 224. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 24 January 1935 under a sentence for national bank robbery and the Dyer Act, and a 1938 federal first-degree murder verdict and life sentence. The National Park Service says he attacked Capone in 1936.

The notebook page's first image does not mention Capone; the 1936 attack rests on the National Park Service article and on the catalog remark. The catalog and the Bureau of Prisons give the 1938 workshop incident the same 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. 224: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/236734998
- Identification photograph on the Alcatraz warden's notebook page for James C. Lucas, No. 224, National Archives at San Francisco (NAID 236734998), Records of the Bureau of Prisons. The catalog marks the item "Use Restriction: Unrestricted.": https://catalog.archives.gov/id/236734998