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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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SP _76=2387 Sha Upon contact by Bureau agents , refused to discuss this further or in fact to scuss the matter with anyone. oe Me volunteered never had any intention of escaping from Alcatraz but merely participated so that he misht air his difficulties in court. Warden OLIi ACKWELL, U. S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz believed that initially furnished correct infor~ bI¢. tion as to the e€ and the participants. Subsequently, a who was in a segregated cell block, became a disciplinary roblem and exhibited psychotic tendencies. He believed that given ! furnished additional information as to the alleged help scapees by prison employees in the belief that this would obtain him a transfer fron Alcatraz. BLACKWELL believ this additional information was merely t imagination and when same did not obtai: refused to disass it furth at Alcatraz, and advised Bureau fgents that manner. GREED «ox tencns city, oklehona, yg former inmate acquaintance of JOHN ANGLIN at the U. $5 aq Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and allered ‘by to be the outside participant in the escape, was deter ave been in Oklahoma City during, the pertinent perj other sources at Oklahona City indicated that knowledge of the whereaboits of the Uscapees an contact with them. a f the SS, "Norerjell, WIS a Norwegian ship, on July 156 saw a body floating in the UT) Pacific Ocean some 20 miles northvest of the Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco. This bedy was floating face downward with _ hands and feet dancline down into the water. The body was clothed in dirty white ~appearing full-length trousers. Upon viewing portions of trousers similar to that worn by the Escapecs, they advised that the bedy they saw floatiny could have had : pris6n garb trousers on it; however, they did not make a close enough inspection to arrive at such a determination. They said they did not report sighting the body until a later date since they were not in radio communication with the United States facilities and they were en route to a foreign ccuntry. hey nad not assisted Escapees in any -6- “A
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