Alcatraz # 1259 by William G. Baker

R360.00
Unit price per

Shipping calculated at checkout.

Dedicated, Signed and dated by author, the notorious US counterfeit criminal and "Cheque casher".

Softcover, ISBN 9781482754070
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Used - Very Good+. This book is in very good condition. The wraps have some slight/limited signs of wear and a very small brown spot on the right bottom corner of the text block, but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far.

Baker, 86, was born into a poor Kentucky family and left home at the age of 16. He was incarcerated on “the Rock” from 1957 to 1960 after two escape attempts from other prisons while serving a sentence for robbery. He counterfeited payroll cheques for five decades after his release, spending many of those years behind bars as well. He lives in Ohio with his wife, Mae, and their dog, Yota.

This is a true account of life in Alcatraz prison written by William G. Baker 1259AZ, a former prisoner of Alcatraz. This is how we lived, what we thought and said and did, the good and the bad. This is the true story of Alcatraz.