# Volney Davis

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/volney-davis/

Alcatraz register no. 271. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 26 October 1935 under a life sentence for conspiracy to transport a kidnapped person, and a transfer back on 30 March 1947. The National Park Service names him as a softball pitcher in 1938.

The "Barker-Karpis gang" label is the catalog's remark and is not defined by any document filed here. The National Park Service page describes him as a "bank robber and kidnapper"; the notebook page gives the offense of record 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. 271: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/236735104
- Identification photograph on the Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Volney Davis, No. 271, National Archives at San Francisco (NAID 236735104), Records of the Bureau of Prisons. The catalog marks the item "Use Restriction: Unrestricted.": https://catalog.archives.gov/id/236735104