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Alcatraz Escape — Part 4

125 pages · May 08, 2026 · Broad topic: Prisons & Escapes · Topic: Alcatraz Escape · 124 pages OCR'd
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- together. , c :) : Alcatraz Escape June 13, 1962 On the day he obtained the motor from the vacuum cleaner, one of the inmates s hit over e head @r inmate in the kit- | chen area and“during the confusion he was able to smuggle the motor to hig ceJT without anyoné noticing him. i motor was given to Morris and the Anglins, and they took it to the roof to use as a drill. They said that it mad¢_too much noise and they could not use it much. They were finally able to Toosen the tampins in the lid covering the ventilator to the roofing. After getting them= ~- out} they replaced them so they could be easily removed. Some . time before this, Clarence Anglin mad d head out of coment which was to be use 'y when and he ief 8 ce TS 7a which was to be stored on top of the cell block near the roof. LID About the first part of May, 1962Q9M obtained an olive ~- o colore@ rubb 480 neoa rom one o e inmates who was trans~- - rom this f ution and over the next_few days obtained -@ couple of more of "auch h raincoats. In addition, over the next few days he would pick up a raiacoat when it was placed down by another inmate and when this individual was not looking. In the evening he would take these raincoats afd cut them up and paste them toget With some glue which had sibly been “obtained from the glove factory at the institution. He would also sew some of the material together. He male a yoke life preserver out of this, H#fmade out of pisces of tublig which hé could pick up ot_various times. At night the raincoats and the residue were hidden on to e 0 e cell biock near the roof in the ventila- tor pipe. Gaps all four yoke Tife prase John Anglin was using the same type raincoat in making the raft they proposed to use, Upon asions, bite of this material were handed into the back of a cell so he could splice and glue the pieces A raft was made which was approximately six_(6) feet by fourteen (14) feet and which had fifteen tis) inch Ponteons_around the edge and to the underneath section of the raft. Originally, John Anglin had said that he had made a wooden type valve arrangement for one of the sections of the Pontoon byt had discarded it in the ventilator pipe near the roof in favor of making the Pontoon with a rubberized type valve. About a month and a half ago, Frank Morris bought a Concertina, which type instrument is allowed inmates at Alcatraz. The keys to the Concertina were taken out a valve type arrangement was made with it so that you could out aes foot in one of the straps of the ; Concertina and with your hand push the other portion of the etrap . down so that the Concertina would act as a. beliows. “I Mpnday night. June 11, 1962 Morris had toid me that 9 ‘we still had ~ the top off of the ventilator leading to the roof and eee ne ee oe nen a)
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