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Alcatraz Escape — Part 11

151 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: Jul 17, 1962 · Broad topic: Prisons & Escapes · Topic: Alcatraz Escape · 150 pages OCR'd
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76-2887, ay -'¢ and recovery of same remote. Interviews of relatives of Escapees, prison inmates, former inmates, associates and acquaintances of Escapees have developed no information indicating Escapees had contacted them. 12] < 07D subsequently advised that the six-foot by fourteen-f0ot raft allegedly made from inmate raincoats was assembled in one of the celis of Escapees. He claimed that it was never tested to ascertain if it were seaworthy and says that only Escapees a (i involved in the escape plan. l The FBI Laboratory advised that the life preservers recovered from B Cell Block, on Fort Cronkhite Beach, and from San Francisco Bay; the partially completed pontoon recovered from B Cell Block; and the Alcatraz raincoat are all composed of the same type of material. The Laboratory inflated the life preservers and placed weights on them. The life preserver recovered from B Cell Block was discovered to be completely air tight, remaining firm for several hours. The other two life preservers lost most of their air in about an hour by slow rate of deflation, but pressure could be maintained by mouth. The hair o my faces recovered from the cells Se of the Escapees onc i: human origin. Three dummy faces recovered from cells were Gétermined to be composed variously of portland cement, sand and white cement paint, with coloring by flesh-colored paint. The dummy face recovered from the cell of CLARENCE ANGLIN was fonned from soap packed over a bundle of white cotton rants and painted with flesh-colored paint. SPEED «.:20:20; prison official that ap n Siard referre i ifi b1¢, (identified by prison officials as iscovered MORRIS making the dummy face in March 1 and was persuaded by MORRIS to accent $7190.00 and to receive $400.00 more from a convict friend. d $2,000,00 to have car, clothes, guns, money, an former ininaté- associate of JOHN AIGLIN at Lewisburg eral Penitentiary, from Oklaha, ity — vaiting on the shore close to Sausalito, Cali ib allegedly smuggied letters out for Escapees. indicated that an electric hand drill and 200 110 ly furnished Escapees by at Alcatraz.
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