Richard Stroud

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'''Richard Stroud''', (b 1890) the birdman of Alcatraz.
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'''Richard Franklin Stroud''', (1890-1963) the birdman of Alcatraz.
  
In 1908 he was living in Cordova, AlaskaThat year he and his 36-year-old girlfriend Kitty O'Brien moved to Juneau.
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Born [[Jan 28]], 1890 in Seattle, King County, Washington, to Benjamin "Ben" Stroud and his wife ElizabethElizabeth had two daughters from her first marriage, and her and Ben later had another son Marcus in 1897.
  
==Resources==
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Robert Stroud left his parent's home in 1903, at the age of 13.  In 1908 he was living in Cordova, Alaska.  That year he and his 36-year-old girlfriend Kitty O'Brien moved to Juneau. Kitty was a dance-hall entertainer and prostitute.
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An acquaintance of theirs raped and beat Kitty and for that reason Richard killed him and then turned himself in the the Sheriff.  His mother Elizabeth hired a lawyer, but Robert was sentenced to 12 years at McNeil Island.  In 1912 he was transferred to Leavenworth.
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Later he was transferred to Alcatraz and later still to a prison in Missouri where he died in 1963.
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==Sources==
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*[http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=wjhonson&id=I143079 Ancestral World Tree entry]
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*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?viewrecord=1&ti=0&r=an&db=1910USCenIndex&F2=AKT624_1748-0118 1910 Census of Juneau, Alaska] showing that his mother Elizabeth was 46 b IL, her daughter Mamse 24 b IL and son Marcus 12 b WA.
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*[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=6482&iid=WA-1991895-2291&fn=Marcus+Mc+Cartney&ln=Stroud&st=r&ssrc=&pid=28519201 WW1 Draft Registration Card for Marcus McCartney Stroud] showing born [[Dec 16]], 1897, Vaudeville Actor nearest relative Mrs E J Stroud (mother) of Kansas City, Missouri
 
*[http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/stroud/index.html His entry on crimelibrary.com]
 
*[http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/stroud/index.html His entry on crimelibrary.com]
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[[Category:True crime]]

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