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Alcatraz Escape — Part 7

114 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: Jun 12, 1962 · Broad topic: Prisons & Escapes · Topic: Alcatraz Escape · 113 pages OCR'd
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ana” Ke L720 one of the ANGLIN brothers did st of it on t cellblock. MORRIS and the ANGLIN brothers indicated the night of June 11, 1962, at about 8:30 p.m. that they were about through the hole 1: Alin acs and ready to go. A couple of he rest of it on top of the weeks prior to this d made for each one of them i @ yoke life preserver out of pieces of rain coats. JOHN ANGLIN had obtained most of the raincoats and over a period of time they had picked one up around the institution when the chance presented itself, i Most of the material was hidden over night in the ventilator pipe on top of the cell block, near the roof. On the night of the escape, MORRIS and one of the ANGLIN brothers went up to the roof ut 7:00 p.m. At about 9:30 p.m. MORRIS was trying to assis knocking out the little remaining cement at the back o is cell. They could not accomplish it without making some noise and MORRIS left to from one of the ANGLIN brothers. They never returned. said that they probably had some maps of the surrounding area with them. They had planned to go through the ventilator hole, on to the roof and then down a large black pipe by the bakery. They would go over by the water tank and then down by the machine shop next to the water. They would pump up their fourteen foot by six feet raft, made of raincoats and which had fifteen inch pontoons, with a Concertina. MORRIS had pur- chased the Concertina a month or so previously. The keys had been taken out of it and a valve inserted so it would operate as a bellows. They planned to go to Angel Island and stick a : knife in the raft so it would sink. They would then go to the Bie. mainiand. They had located about 125 feet of electrical cord a about one-half inch thick in the utility corridor and that was to be taken with them to assist in getting down from the roof and to lower their material. They planned to commit a burglary to obtain guns and clothes, and then sate ar. After they got away from the | Island and this area. A er MORRIS had planned to go one way — and let the ANGLIN br ers go another, however, no destinations were mentioned. The only weapons they could possibly have had with them would have been a sharpened kitchen knife or a screw driver. - ° GH i 2ctinea to furnish a signed statement. -S0- 11%
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