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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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0-19 (Rev. 3-2-82) ’ ) 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, =" 0 pipe tunnel, the men c matal mash # ‘Warden Olin D. Blackw ; three convicts haye drowned | called ten, Oia D. prison fron, ‘ a £4 osen u uve — ee Trotter Tele Room r\ Lalenae _ 1 \ BVI —_—_—————————— br Gandy Sey a re” tiGt ca 3 The Reatard Post et Timee Herald The Washington Daily News ue The Evening Star ——____ = f New York Harald Tribune H = ew York Journal-American New York Mirror WY ieee York Daily News fa ret Bor OSERE- ‘Limes md tied, of) The Newt y The won aa he Wall Street Joumal The Natiofhi dilbrvd
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