Alcatraz page 5 by ric gustafson
Prisoner #325 was nicknamed ' Creepy' by the FBI. Alvin Karpis was born in Montreal Canada in 1908. He grew up in Topeka Kansas and began a string of petty burglaries. In 1929, he broke out of a Kansas reformatory and was recaptured the same year in Kansas City. For two years, he served time in the Kansas State Penitentiary. There Karpis met Freddie Barker who was one of the Barker clan. Upon release, the two went on a rampage of robbing stores, warehouses and banks. On May 1 1936, Karpis surrendered to FBI agents in New Orleans. On August 6 1936, Karpis was sentenced to twenty years at Alcatraz. Karpis was assigned to the laundry thanks to ' Doc' Barker and ' Machine Gun Kelly'. He was transferred to McNeil Island to serve the last year of his sentence.
After he was released, Karpis was deported to Canada where he died in 1979.
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Peace and God's blessings. Love Ric
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