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Alcatraz Escape — Part 6

120 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: Jun 27, 1962 · Broad topic: Prisons & Escapes · Topic: Alcatraz Escape · 119 pages OCR'd
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LEI ni. + a 8. emis ee ee eee MD tie ee - soe ee Sn Renken ae wee . i handles with sharpened edges, four flesh-colored dummy faces, "Popular Mechanics" and "Sports Illustrated" magazines contain- ing photographs and description as to making rubberized rafts and lifesaving type vests, paint, paste, tape, and twine between cells, evidently used as a signal device. Search of area on top of cell block indicates same used as workshop by Escapees, A life preserver made from olive drab rubberized material cut from inmates! raincoats, a partially completed raft of similar material, electric drills fashioned through use of a motor from the prison vacuum cleaner and one through use of motor from barber clippers, liquid plastic, a homemade periscope and miscellaneous items located there. A homemade wooden paddle and about 100 feet of heavy black extension cord located on cell house roof, and similar type cord located on beach. On 6/12/62, a wooden paddle was picked up near Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, and on 6/15/62, a homemade life preserver observed to wash ashore on Fert Cronkhite Beach, which is on ocean side of Golden Gate Bridge. On 6/22/62, another homemade life preserver picked up 4n San Francisco Bay some 50 yards @as$ of Alcatraz. All items similar in appearance and materlal to those recovered at prison. On 6/14/62, waterproof package, apparently made of inmate raincoat material and containing names, addresses, photographs and personal property identifiable ‘$1 a with ANILIN brothers, picked up in Francisco Ba n ly a) Angel “sland and Alcatraz. Inmate Stated so FBI Agents that he initially in on escape plot. i arver " digging tew holes in cell io MME cus, severs1 holes in his cell but stopped along with Escapée avoid detection while plumbing being installed, and not told by Egceapees to start digging again. ncovered in’ some 36 holes pyeovere - - ookout ror about one week each and then - t. Sa: ANGLIN in February 1962 showed him two files ch ANGI wmed obtained from an inmate, ui pe Ol Daly a: . : complaint was filed 6/13/62 before USC, San Francisco, charging Escapees MORRIS and ANGLIN brothers with violation Title 18 Section 751, U. S. Code. Federal warrants issued and bond recommended in the amount of $50,000.00 each. on 6/20/62, USA CECIL F. POOLE, San Francisco, advised he would consider prosecutive action at ~2- bb%
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