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Alcatraz Escape — Part 11
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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
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