# Joseph Paul "Dutch" Cretzer

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-cretzer/

Alcatraz register no. 548. The warden's notebook page records receipt from USP McNeil on 27 August 1940 under sentences for bank robbery, escape and second-degree murder, and a typed header recording the 2 to 4 May 1946 prison break and that his body was found on 4 May.

The catalog gives the origin of his transfer as US Penitentiary, Marion, where the page prints McNeil; this page records both. The catalog remark reads "ATT ESC 05-21-41; 05-02-46; KYLE'S B-I-L," of which the last part is not expanded. The catalog gives a birth date of 04/17/1911 and a death date of 05/04/1946 at Alcatraz. 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. 548: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/236735810
- Identification photograph on the Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Joseph Paul Cretzer, No. 548, National Archives at San Francisco (NAID 236735810), Records of the Bureau of Prisons. The catalog marks the item "Use Restriction: Unrestricted.": https://catalog.archives.gov/id/236735810