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Doc Barker

FULL NAME: Arthur Raymond Barker

 

ALIAS: Doc,Claude Dade,Bob Barker

 

BIRTHDATE: July 4,1899

 

BIRTHPLACE: Aurora,Missouri

 

DIED: January 13,1939 from wounds sustained after a failed escape attempt from Alcatraz

 

DOC'S TIMELINE

 

July 4,1918: Doc is arrested for stealing a car in Tulsa,Oklahoma (he will later escape)

 

February 19,1920: Doc is arrested for escaping prison in 1918,and is sent back to Tulsa,Oklahoma

 

February 25,1920: Doc is released from prison

 

January 15,1921: Doc is arrested for an attempted bank robbery in Muskogee,Oklahoma (he receives a life sentence)

 

January 30,1921: Doc starts his prison sentence at Oklahoma State Prison

 

June 11,1921: Doc is released from Oklahoma State Prison

 

August 16,1921: Doc,along with Volney Davis,are involved in the killing of night watchman,Thomas J.Sherill,in Tulsa,Oklahoma

 

February 10,1922: Doc is received at Oklahoma State Prison for the murder of Sherill

 

September 10,1932: Doc is released from Oklahoma State Prison

 

September 30,1932: Doc,Alvin and Fred help out Lawrence DeVol by robbing the Citizen's National Bank in Wahpeton,North Dakota

 

December 16,1932: Doc,Fred,Alvin and the gang rob Third Northwestern National Bank in Minneapolis,Minnesota (two police officers are killed)

 

April 4,1933: Doc helps the gang rob a bank in Fairbury,Nebraska

 

January 17,1934: Doc helps the gang kidnap Edward Bremer (who is released on February 7,1934,after the ransom is paid)

 

January 8,1935: Doc is arrested in Chicago,Illinois (receives a life sentence for the Bremer kidnapping,and is sent to Alcatraz)

 

January 13,1939: Doc dies from wounds he sustains during a failed escape attempt from Alcatraz

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