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Alcatraz Escape — Part 11
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Liaison with police asencies, searches, neighborhood
investigation and various inquiries in the San Francisco Bay
area have developed no information indicating that Escapees
arrived on the mainland. Authorities indicated that bodies of
Escapees possibly carried out to sea by the outgoing tide which
was existent during vertinent period and recovery of same remote.
Interviews of relatives of Escapees, prison inmates,
associates and acquaintances developed no information indicating
Escapees had contacted them. yan fe
Sing of penitentiary at Alcatraz,
d taU. S. Penitentiary, HeNeil Island,
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SUMMARY OF INVESTIGATION
At 7:15 a.em., June 12, 1962, officers of the United
States Penitentiary, Alcatraz, California, discovered that FRANK
LEE MORRIS, JOHN WILLIAM ANGLIN and CLARENCE ANGLIN, all inmates,
had escaped from their cells, leaving flesh-colored dummy faces
in their beds. The escape route consisted of holes dug through
the back of their cell walls near the ventilator area, climbing
plumbing pipe in the utility corridor behind the cells to the
top of the cell block, where they broke through the bars and_
ventilator lid onto the roof. They apparently climbed down from
the roof by way of the bakery smokestack at the rear of the ceil
house, went over the chain-link fence and to the northeast shore
of the island. Investication indicated that the escape evidently
occurred around 10:00 p.m. the preceding evening. yw 2.
A similar hole was found in the cell o wu
sae: well as a flesh-colored dummy face. old F gents
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