Famous Figures
ROBERT STROUD “THE BIRD MAN OF ALCATRAZ”
In 1909 he brutally murdered a bartender who had supposedly to pay a prostitute for whom. Stroud was pimping in Alaska. After shooting the bartender to death, Stroud took the man's wallet to ensure that he and the hostler would receive compensation for her services. Stroud brutally assaulted a hospital orderly who he insisted had reported him to the administration for attempting to procure narcotics through intimidation and threats. He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death by hanging, and he was ordered to stay his death sentence in solitary confinement. In 1942 Stroud was sent to Alcatraz for 11 years of prison.
ROY GARDNER
Roy G. Gardner (January 5, 1884 - January 10, 1940) was once America's most infamous prison escapee and the most celebrated gangster and escaped prisoner during the Roaring Twenties. During his criminal course, he stole over $350,000 in cash and securities. He also had a $5,000 reward for his head three times in less than a year during his sensational course. He was the most dangerous inmate in the history of Atlanta Prison and he was dubbed by the newspapers across the West Coast as the "Smiling Bandit", the "Mail Train Bandit", and the "King of the Escape Artists". On January 10, 1940, police found the "Most Wanted" gangster and Western outlaw, Roy Gardner. He was dead at age fifty-six by suicide from cyanide fumes and tear gas at the Hotel Governor in San Francisco.
In 1909 he brutally murdered a bartender who had supposedly to pay a prostitute for whom. Stroud was pimping in Alaska. After shooting the bartender to death, Stroud took the man's wallet to ensure that he and the hostler would receive compensation for her services. Stroud brutally assaulted a hospital orderly who he insisted had reported him to the administration for attempting to procure narcotics through intimidation and threats. He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death by hanging, and he was ordered to stay his death sentence in solitary confinement. In 1942 Stroud was sent to Alcatraz for 11 years of prison.
ROY GARDNER
Roy G. Gardner (January 5, 1884 - January 10, 1940) was once America's most infamous prison escapee and the most celebrated gangster and escaped prisoner during the Roaring Twenties. During his criminal course, he stole over $350,000 in cash and securities. He also had a $5,000 reward for his head three times in less than a year during his sensational course. He was the most dangerous inmate in the history of Atlanta Prison and he was dubbed by the newspapers across the West Coast as the "Smiling Bandit", the "Mail Train Bandit", and the "King of the Escape Artists". On January 10, 1940, police found the "Most Wanted" gangster and Western outlaw, Roy Gardner. He was dead at age fifty-six by suicide from cyanide fumes and tear gas at the Hotel Governor in San Francisco.