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Alcatraz Escape — Part 7
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the next few days he would pick up a raincoat when it was
placed down by another inmate and when this individual was not
looking. In the evening he would take these raincoats and cut
them up and paste them together with some glue which had
possibly been obtained from the glove factory at the institution.
He would also sew some of the material together. He made a yoke
life preserver out of this. He made vaives out of pieces of i
tubing which he could pick up at various times. At night the iKiZ,
raincoats and the residue were hidden of the cell block
near the roof in the ventilator pipe. de all four yoke bY
life preservers, JOHN ANGLIN was using é same type raincoat
in making the raft they proposed to use. Upo ons, bits
of this material were handed into the back of cell so he
could splice and glue the pieces together.
A raft was made which was approximately six (6) feet
by fourteen (14) feet and which had fifteen (15) inch pontoons
around the edge and to the underneath section of the raft.
— Originally, JOHN ANGLIN had said that he had made a wooden type
a valve arrangement for one of the sections of the pontoon but
had discarded it in the ventilator pipe near the roof in favor
of making the pontoon with a rubberized type valve.
About a month and a half ago, FRANK MORRIS bought a
Concertina, which type instrument is allowed inmates at Alcatraz.
The keys to the Concertina were taken out and a vaive type
arrangement was made with it so that you could put your foot
in one of the straps of the Concertina and with your hand push
the other portion of the strap down so that the Concertina would
act as a bellows.
Monday night, June 11, 1962, MORRIS had +o de
that they still had to complete taking the top off of the ;
ventilator leading to the reof and to separate the bars on the -
roof, In addition, he indicated there was a little work left to
complete the raft. FRANK MORRIS: said that the ANGLINs were
talking about completing the work and breaking out that night.
CLARENCE ANGLIN and FRANK MORRIS left their cells and went up oo
the utility corridor to the roof about 7:00 p.m. on June 11, 1962.
MORRIS came down at about 8:45 p.m. that a: and said the
bars were out of the hole on and gave him
some water as he was thirsty. ven o the utility corridor
was still not quite completed, since his job as to making the
life preservers and assisting with the raft did not call for
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