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i your own in the! of San Francisco Bay |i : a foggy night with a fast! (tides lapping at you, water | it’ Perhaps the most frighten- “ling thing is the fact that you /§ wouldn't be able to see much. -\If the fog is in, the Golden |t -|Gate bridge to the west would “Ibe blotted cut, as would the {Oakland bridge to the east.|' The Nghthouses would be blan- |: _|keted. And fog horns would); -lmoan all around you. |. Mr. Blackwell and Mr. Wil-|; Eirison insist that “even if they bed « board or something,” it would be too much for three “non-athletic types, for all of their pianning” to overcome the challenge of the bay, a chal- lenge on which the fame of Alcatraz is built '. Did They Make It? Officially there 1s no police rojection of what happened. e¢ FBI, in charge of the arch, would say only “we are doing everything we can think of. The case is not closed until there is a body.” \| Did they make !t? ‘No one knows. Including Frank’ Lee Morris and John and Clarence Anglin, 38 men have tried te “bust the rock," Of these, eight were shot to death or found drowned. The rest never got off the island, some not even outside the cell blocks. The last two men to try it, in 1958, were caught, one alive right after he set aail, the other after he had drowned. They, too, had improvised flotation gear. The dead man didn’t turn’ up for 13 days. In 1937, two Oklahoma bank Tobbers apparently swam off and the prison says they drowned. No trace has ever been. found of these two, the only two men before last week to flee Alcatraz and-remain unac- counted for. “Morris and the Anglin boys! escaped confinement,” Mr. Wil- Kinson says. “There’s no doubt }/@bout it. But they didn't escape i traz if they died in ——, the attempt.” 34: