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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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iS 6-2887 i? a Gas IL 0 him to leave his cell. Also, if he had completed his, it would have been necessary to make the false rear to it to possibly t detection. JOHN ANGLIN had cemented up a portion of and vent to the rear where he had cracked the side of the cement to the utility corridor so no one d notice it. In addition, while working in his cell, had helped make the paddles they intended to use, He made four paddies, they were of plywood, twelve (12) inches by eight (8) inches and with a wooden handle. He put about two or three bolts through the paddle and handle to hoid them together. These paddles were stored up on top of the cell biock and inside the ventilator pipe. MORRIS indicated that they could go that evening if they got the lid off of the top of the ventilator. He said that the bars below it were out of the way and he felt that they would get that off by 9:30 p.m. He left and went up to the roof. Shortly thereafter, eard some noises and started making noise to cover it up so no one would notice if At 9:22 p.m., that date, CLARENCE ANGLIN tapped o ventilator and said that they could see the moon tried to kick the rest of the cement out of the hole at the back of his celi. He could not do it. ANGLIN tried to help for a minute or so, but could not do anything. He then went up and got MORRIS. MORRIS came down and put the dummy in his bed. The lights were out at 9:30 p.m. and MORRIS went up and got a two inch piece of pipe and handed it to tried to push it out but could not do it without making too muc MORRIS left to go get CLARENCE ANGLIN to help clear out : ae bed. This happened at 9:37 p.m. that evening. This is the last beard or saw of them. As there was no dummy head for his Ge: afraid at that time to break through his cell until after the 3:00 a.m. count. At about 1:45 a.m une 12, 1962, after waiting some- time for them to come back, became anxious and broke through his hole and went to the roof, bY way, @e utility corridor. There was no dummy for his bed. When got into the utility corridor he noticed that they had 1 NK" laying there and he used this dummy head in his bed. took his blue dungarees, undershirt, and blue serge pea jacket to the roof with hj sf could see that they had gone as the material, etc. which had worked on, and Which they had described to him, was gone. In addition, there had been some one hundred (100) feet of a heavy electrical cording which had been laying on the floor of _ | TWAS Ww
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