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Alcatraz Escape — Part 7
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he dug approximately six holes in his cell in the vicinity of the
ventilator. This was accomplidrd in about seven days of digging
over a two week period. He decided against trying to break out
and told the others of his decision. As he dug out each hole
he would fill it with soap and then paint over it with cement
paint s® that they would be well camouflaged.
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After breaking through the cell walls they had planned to
put a fake cell wall and ventilator in the area which they
roken out of. About March 1962, the ANGLIN brothers and
said that they were going to build two rafts out of olive
green pubbertzed rain coats issued to prisoners. From their
conversat toil believes that they were obtaining tape and
paste from e or shop to assist in making the rafts. After
the rafts were completed it was planned to place them in the
ventilator pipe on top of B cell block and just under the roof.
The ANGLIN brothers toid him that MORRIS had made a hand pump
out of steel pipe, a leather type Munger and wood which would
be used to inflate the rafts, They talked of wearing long under-
wear which they might dye or paint black and sweatshirts
similarly dyed or painted. This would be under their regular
prison clothing and they would discard their prison clothing on
the beach when they were ready to leave the island. They had
talked about making paddles out of some wood, 1 x 8 inch board
and each was to make his own,
* for a few. weeks the ANGLIN brothers,
MORRIS and that all of them had to stop digging
since there was to utility
gorridor of B cell . and —
said that they were ¢ lage their holes so that no
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