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Alcatraz Escape — Part 4
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’ ) dune iiificers recoverell..”
‘ rebbers their $19,008 loot. *
Acting Warden Arthur Doi-i
tison~said the men got out'
of their grounddier eells by
digging through - vaihegnin
surrounding ven 0 oper
-@ Tnaxinun security in that
Federal penitentiary in 1934. =. were covered by
least one and possibly
similar escape attempts. -
ini
Hh
il trom the vent, about 8 by 12
*\inches, then used sharpened
spoons to enlarge the holes.
The spoons were found in
the abandoned celks. -
Blackwell said the men had
painted c to look ilke
metal and used it te cover up
Pe ee ee
ie 20168 when wicy Were Go
ewld water. Fhe nearest land
it the San Francisco shore, a
nglle and a half away, and
Amgel Island, two miles in the
[ober direction.
4a “The FBI was questioning a
Yeurth convict who was sup-
pbsed to have joined the es-
nned to go | to Angel
i@and. ;
Ye et uy of ore ee ie a
‘{ excitement i we Aigél le ing,
SES area when crewmen of) bars and esceped through an
“> av Coast Guard helicopter exha uc
They went across the top of
») thought they had sighted a
about 40 feet down a kitchen
empty fish basket.
he convicts were last seen| Veo pipe to the stound. It
. * Dae o'clock Iast night ang|Wey Teached the bay, they
" wgre mined at 7:18 a. m. to iso climbed a 12foot wire
- dhy when -prisoners were
. Thea up outside their cells], nO remanens Ot Pe
te go to breakfast. cells tor the day.
rTheir diseppeararice touched! 4 szed whether deterioration
| OG a Land, foe and a Meare jot the old prison baltdings
. e
didn’t ne
1The missing Men were John| The main buildings were
Wiliam Anglin, 32, and his|constructed in 1900. The con-
beother Clarence 231 hath af! auinn af the nriann and ax.
See, Wee eee, eg ee TEU UL ee a
‘Montgomery, Ala.; and Frank/penge of its operation have
lye ‘Morris, 35, New Orleans. been an issue in Washington
The Anglin brothers Were|recently. Opponents. its
arrested in Hamilton, Ohio, Tootinued Use way ft would be
Tobbing a bank at Colum-|cheaper to move the facility
Se reehine a bane 1958. Of-/than to rebuild it, ="
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pipe tunnel, the men c
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‘Warden Olin D. Blackw ;
three convicts haye drowned | called ten, Oia D. prison fron, ‘
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