On this day, Jan. 13, in 1939, Doc Barker, of the notorious “Bloody Barkers,” was killed by prison guards as he attempted to escape from Alcatraz Prison. Arthur “Doc” Barker was the third ...

Early in January, 1935, the FBI found one of the gang in Chicago (agency records show this was son Arthur ”Doc” Barker). When they broke into his room he was busy burning every piece of paper ...

Herman committed suicide in 1927. Arthur “Doc” Barker was killed as he tried to escape Alcatraz in 1939. Top G-man J. Edgar Hoover called the Depression Era’s Barker-Karpis Gang “the ...

Some famous names held here: Robert Stroud or the so-called "Birdman of Alcatraz," Al Capone, George "Machine-Gun" Kelly, Alvin Karpis, who was the first "Public Enemy #1" and Arthur "Doc" Barker ...

Well-known criminals such as Al Capone, George "Machine-Gun" Kelly, Alvin Karpis (the first "Public Enemy No. 1) and Arthur "Doc" Barker did time in Alcatraz, according to the BOP. However ...