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cee coe eee eam scape el aes serenaded hinaniammanaapediss Raia sama. pa — nn tne a air | ( wf (Rev. 3-2-62) . , V ? Robber With High ieycredited bebe 1 oe . | As Plotter of Alcatraz Escape. S-5=— AN FRANCISCO, June 1éleves and blond hair. Clarence, from the prison, barber shop. Trotter (AP),—Who thought up this}a year younger, was. 6-11%.| It must have been an electric . Tele Room week's escape from Alcatrax ia|weighed 168, feie complected moment for the men when they - unclear. But it’s apparent that | but hasel-cyed. They were 2|got the ventilator covers loose, Val the mastermind of. the break{of 13 children in thelr family. and. enlarged the holes in the ~ by three southern bank rob-| Morris, then, was already on|four-inch thick walls to about bere was Prank Lee Morsis, a|'"The Rock” eight months when | 10- by-14 inches, big enough to small man wi wreith the high io-{the fires Anglin arrived. The! craw! through. telligence quotient of 133. Anglina eventually were put in| ‘what they found first was & Comment on the three «s- kice-by-side cells. as ig Federal pecsaceway connecting al) the capecs by Pred T. Wilkinson. |custom for brothers. Morris was| cans Now they could meet, and assistant director of the Fed-|four cells away. The cells were) oigt without being observed. eral Bureau of Prisons, bears(on the lower. tier of « triple! they could explore. Next there decker. was @ 30-foot pipe, narrow but Cell Walls Hroded ' 4 wide enough-to squirm up, that telligent. He's not given to led to the roof. Morris must have noticed the From the roof it ‘was 100 feet a planner. The whole opera- walls are eroded and the drain tion seems typi¢al of him.” etal fixtures rusted. Mr. eee to the gro vind. Mr, Wilkinson added, how-[Wilkinson and Warden O12) p.vond efun there was only » ell admit this condition.|jo-root barbed wire topped The first step must have been) tenon and 100 yards further ; Sta cic: pry at the walls around &|ihey were on the beach, “The natively cunning side, wrow- metal ventilator cover. The Rock's” cliffa rising some 100 backs to the swamp country, ce more given to action.” results were satisfactory since|teet above them. Holmes, _-___~ _, Ga : + a all three men eventually Mr, Wilkinson aaid he cametcnioned loose jhe ventilator At this point Alcatraz’ very to know the men at the Atlanta ° inaccessibility may have worked Federal Penitentiary where he (cOVe's their cells; They would | 1.” favor of Morris and the torrie was, 38 short about [Cxercixe yard and throw tt to angins. winds, a handful at a time.f The fog in San Francisco : eiinacened 3 poms BeP'avtccaiy whence nome (aay a eet tan ies \ 7/7, og hair, and a thin mouth Be |S8ry to cover up their handi- linding. On s night like that, ey ee 4 was @ fugitive from the State|WOrX. There is a workshop injand the Coast Guard repo! Prison at Angola, La., when he|‘#e Prison and the warden saysiiate Monday and early rus. took part in 2 86.165 burglary;{he men had access to such ay feat. ree loose con ie of @ Slidell, (La,), bank on|taings es paint, gine, and so on. Pee ew hoe ay ‘nts thee! B JUL 16 19652 November 25, 1955. He was|Someone with patience smug- ot, an ow many nigr they arrested at Houma, La., the gled. enough material inte the[¥ere loose no one £N0Ws. - The Washington Post and following January. jeells to Make and paint card- Haft From Raincosts © & eT Imes Her ; board ijkenesses of the venti- 44-Year Sentence lator cavers, plus a Uttie bit]. Now that they knew they — The Washington Daily Ngwe ? of wall. ' wid reach Alcatras’ rocky The Evening Stor eee etal Briton end rr When did.they do all this? ach, what next? Something New York Herald Tribune then was sent to Alcatraz, “The |The cell doors at Alcatraz clang [would be needed to help them Rock” in San Francisco Bay, yt at 5 p.m. Lights go out at cress the water that lay in ali New York Journal-American on January 14, 1960, to com-—2:30 p.m. The men sleep in a directions. Here, too, an agile: New York Mirot plete bis 14-year sentence. fort of half-light, heads to thejmind proved usefil. Anotnes New York Dally Newe _dpbn and Clarence Anglin|ber. There is an hourly cheek, convict said the trio fashion YH and a third brother sobbed a jthe guard walking past. ® pontoon raft of reincoat New York Posi Cokimbia (Ala.) bank of $19-| TheJWwotk tlearly was done|sleeves. No such raft has been he New York Times 000 in January,’ 1988. They fat night, the chipping of the(found. but since tne sseape The New Yor: Tis were arrested and the money bwalls with dita of spoons taken [°° Ds paddies, . The Worker recovered. Clarence already Mrom-the community mess. been discovered The New Leader had @ record of four escapes; The last time the men were/"#Y° . The Woll Street Joumal ————-— from Florida prison work{seen-was at lights out Monday.| | One of the paddles was found ° tom Street fone gangs. On Auguat 8 1960, he| They were not’ missed until OT ea es vg other ihe The National Observer Was caught trying to spring)showup Tuesday morning at e @ north, the John from the Leavenworth| 7:15, almost 10 ‘hours later. (Closest point of land to Alca- Date (Kan.) Federal Prison by. se-] In their beds, accepted all-|tras, Dut still two miles away. creting hime in a bread box. ght~long as fast asleep con-| This floating gear had been JUN John was sent to Alcatras in Bricts, were amazingly life-like (hidden on the roof. . 1960 and Clarence fol- idummies with soap and plaster) Warden Blackwell and Mr. 171962 lowed him January,’ 1961, tofheads and pillow bodies. gr" complete 16 and 10-year" sen- ° w bomen iikinson, the latter vent to; AY 4 tences, respectively. Electric Moment k. do not 4 estigate of the fs are P d John Anglin, 3%, atood 5-10, tiead had real. hair,[above but they inslst that once an Walghed-ii) pounds, had blue tehed * andi | at. a timeRhe men went to the water - ~~ 4 Hh eee