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Alcatraz Escape — Part 12

125 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: Apr 18, 1962 · Broad topic: Prisons & Escapes · Topic: Alcatraz Escape · 125 pages OCR'd
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WI 7 =. former inmate w74 c) a e U. Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and alleged >y to be the outside participant in the escape, was dete } een in Oklahoma City during the pertinent period. d other sources at Oklahoma City indicated that d no knowledge of the whereabouts of the Escapees a no contact with then. TR end sor the ss spores join, 5) Ge & Norwegian ship, on July 17, 1962, saw a body floating in the Pacific Ocean some 20 miles northwest of the Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco. This body was floating face downward with hands and feet dangling 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 Escapees, they advised that the body they saw floating could have had prison garb trousers on it; however, they did not make a close enough inspection to arrive at such a actermination. They said they dia not report sighting the body until a later date since they were not in radio commnica- ae tion with the United States facilities and they were en route to a foreign country. Records of the United States Coast Guard, San Ne Fa) Francisco, an which concern drownings in the San Francisco Bay area an ces from the Golden Gate Bridge, contained no missing body clothed in white- appearing trousers other than Escapees during the pertinent pe ° be corer ye ecm sama former inmate at Alcatraz and |? presently inc e United States Penitentiary, yy) Leavenworth, Kansas, advised that he had no information relative to the escapees and he had not participated in the escape, At various times articles, including dead bodies, craniums, jawbones, etc., washed ashore in the San Francisco Bay area, but none of these have been identified with the ~ On March 21, 1963, the last of the inmates. incarcerated at the United States Fenitentiary, Alcatraz, California, were transferred to various institutions 7 -5- \375
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