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ene MI ee 4 Se ALA NS | -ot fad () UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FD-204 (Rev. 3-3-59} Copy to: 1 - USA, SAN FRANCISCO bh) a. Repent ob mo] Ofc: SAN FRANCISCO" Date: June 29, 1962 Field Office File #:70—-2087 Bureau File #: 76826295 » \q PRANK TRE MORRT: wrt AOSTA MORRIS; _ JOHN WILLIAM ANGLIN; CIARENCE A ; Choracter: ESCAPED FEDERAL PRISONER ~ CONSPIRACY Synopsis: At 7:15 a.m., 6/12/62, officers of the United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz, California, discovered that FRANK LEE MORRIS, JOHN WILLIAM ANGLIN and CLARENCE ANGLIN, all inmates, had escaped from their cells, leaving flesh-colored dummy faces in their beds. The escape route consisted of holes dug through the back of their cell walls near ventilator area; climbing plumbing pipes in utility corridor behind cells to top of cell block, where they broke through bars and ventilator 11d onto roof. Apparently climbed down from roof on the bakery smoke stack at rear of cell house, over the fence and to the northeast shore \. of the island. Investigation indicates escape evidently 7) occurred around 10:00 evening. A similar hole found in cell as well as a flesh- colored dummy face. they had left him :37 p.m. on Supposedly to return a sh hole, and not seen since. Later that night’ ed the hole in his cell, proceeded to roof, a rtained they had gone. He returned to his cell and to bed. Claimed Escapees had taken a six foot by fourteen foot raft made from- rubberized raincoats of inmates and three yoke life preservers Similarly made. These articles had been made and stored on top of cell block under cell house roof, and E 3 had worked on same in evening after breaking out of cel stated they planned to escape to Angel Island in San Fran Bay and then to~mainland, where they would commit burglary to obtain guns and clothi teal a car and leave area. Search of cells of Escapees and covered hack saw type blades, spoon This document contains neither recommendations not conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your ageney; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. bb]