On the Rock : Twenty-Five Years in Alcatraz: the Prison
In the FBI arrested Alvin Karpis in New Orleans. He was the leader,along with Freddie Barker,of the Karpis/Barker gang of outlaws. (The FBI falsely claimed that Freddie's mother,Ma Barker,was the leader of the gang only after they killed the old lady with her son Freddie in Florida.) Alvin Karpis was wanted for 14 murders at the time of his arrest,but none could be proven. He was given a life sentence on a kidnapping charge and sent to the mysterious super-prison in San Francisco - Alcatraz. For 2