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3 6-283 aay He commented that any noise that might have occurred by reason of working on the walls probably would have been deadened by prisoners in the cells beating their beds, i.e.; raising the beds and dropping them on the floor, which he said wa8 a frequent practice at the prison and which the guards could not do anything about. 672 respect to the frequency and reliability of guard checks amills stated that each prisoner had to be in front of 570 his cell door at 6:00 p.m., after the meal hour, when the cell door was locked. At 9:00 or 9:30 p.m. the lights were ex- tinguished and the rule required that thereafter the guards check 1 with a flashlight and observe a form in the cell. aid that he had quite often read in his bed until 1:30 or 2:00 in the morning and had heard the guards c a prisoner count to the sergeant of the guard, and had never seen the guard come by his cell during the eveniig. a 4 rf eee C= ane . ' 4 ¢ QB cescrived MORRIS as a quiet individual. In WEEE opinion, he thought that if the three had had a leader in planning the escape, it would have been the older ANGLIN brother who did the planning. With respect to the use of raincoats to make a raft, which Misa he had observed in a newspaper account, he said that a lot of the prisoners maintain raincoats in their cells and that it would be a simple matter for one prisoner to obtain a raincoat from another inmate. Thereafter, the other prisoner could easily obtain another raincoat from the stock at the prison. RR 21: said that 1t was a simple matter at the prison for a prisoner to request that his cell be changed and such a request would be granted by the prison authorities. ey) Z ano tne a as scheduled to He mentioned | this name not with any intention vha would have any more or bett owledge about the Escapees than he had, but simply that d also recently been released from Alcatraz. - 35 ~