# Bernard Paul "Barney" Coy

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/bernard-coy/

Alcatraz register no. 415. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Atlanta on 31 July 1937 under a sentence for conspiracy and bank robbery, and a typed header recording the 2 to 4 May 1946 prison break and that his body was found on 4 May.

The page's header calls him a "leader" in the break; that is staff wording typed after the event, not a finding. The catalog gives a birth date of 02/13/1900 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. 415: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/236735451
- Identification photograph on the Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Bernard Paul Coy, No. 415, National Archives at San Francisco (NAID 236735451), Records of the Bureau of Prisons. The catalog marks the item "Use Restriction: Unrestricted.": https://catalog.archives.gov/id/236735451