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Farris Egbert Morris — Part 2
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charg1 Escapees MORRIS and ANGLIN brothers with violation
Title 18, Section 751, U. S. Code. Federal warrants issued
and bond recommended in the amount of $50,000.00 each. USA, 7
San Francisco, withholding prosecution as to at this time. x
SURIECTS AT LARGE ARE ALL CONVICTED RANK ROBRERS AND SHOULD BE
CONSTDERED © TY DANGEROUS. —
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FACTS OF OFFENSE
On June 12, 1962, at 7:15 a.m., FRANK LEE MORRIS,
Alcatraz No. 1441; JOHN WILLIAM ANGLIN, Alcatraz No. 1476; and
CLARENCE ANGLIN, Alcatraz No. 1485, all inmates of the United
States Penitentiary, Aleatraz Island, California, were discovered
missing from their cells by officers of the Penitentiary.
Dummy faces were found in their beds.
Their exit had been accomplished by digging holes
through the back walls in the ventilator areas of their cells.
Crawling through these holes into the utility corridor, they
then used the plumbing pipes to crawl on top of the third tier
of cells. Thence, they broke out onto the roof of the cell
house through bars and a ventilator lid. They climbed down
from the roof on the large pipe at the rear of the cell house
and went over the fence, proceeding | down steep embankments to
the northeast shore of the island in the vicinity of the power
plant.
A similar hole was discovered in
Alcatraz No. 1335, cell, as well as a dummy face stated yr.
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quite completed. At 9:37 p.m. on June 21, 1962, MORRIS went
to get one of the ANGLINs to assis but they never
returned. Later that rd co fa eted the hole in his cell -—
and _proceeded to the roof b ey were gone. Also, a six foot
by fourteen foot raft made from rubberized raincoats and three
yoke life preservers similarly made were gone. These articies
had been stored on top of the third ceil tier under the cell
house roof where Escapees had worked same in the evenings
after breaking out of their cells. Geli returned to his ceil
and went to bed.
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