# Arthur "Doc" Barker

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/arthur-doc-barker/

Alcatraz register no. 268. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 26 October 1935 under a life sentence and a red header recording his death in the institutional hospital on 13 January 1939 from gunshot wounds received while attempting to escape.

Barker is on this archive through his Alcatraz records only. The catalog's case-file description attaches the remark "BARKER-KARPIS GANG" to his register number; that is the catalog's label, and no document filed here defines it. The notebook page names the offense as conspiracy to transport a kidnapped person. 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. 268: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/296721
- Identification photograph on the Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Arthur Barker, No. 268, National Archives at San Francisco (NAID 296721), Records of the Bureau of Prisons. The catalog marks the item "Use Restriction: Unrestricted.": https://catalog.archives.gov/id/296721