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Alcatraz Escape — Part 7

114 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: Jun 12, 1962 · Broad topic: Prisons & Escapes · Topic: Alcatraz Escape · 113 pages OCR'd
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=Pa => 76-2887 KZ. T_T i } 7L 670 he dug approximately six holes in his cell in the vicinity of the ventilator. This was accomplidrd in about seven days of digging over a two week period. He decided against trying to break out and told the others of his decision. As he dug out each hole he would fill it with soap and then paint over it with cement paint s® that they would be well camouflaged. continued d After breaking through the cell walls they had planned to put a fake cell wall and ventilator in the area which they roken out of. About March 1962, the ANGLIN brothers and said that they were going to build two rafts out of olive green pubbertzed rain coats issued to prisoners. From their conversat toil believes that they were obtaining tape and paste from e or shop to assist in making the rafts. After the rafts were completed it was planned to place them in the ventilator pipe on top of B cell block and just under the roof. The ANGLIN brothers toid him that MORRIS had made a hand pump out of steel pipe, a leather type Munger and wood which would be used to inflate the rafts, They talked of wearing long under- wear which they might dye or paint black and sweatshirts similarly dyed or painted. This would be under their regular prison clothing and they would discard their prison clothing on the beach when they were ready to leave the island. They had talked about making paddles out of some wood, 1 x 8 inch board and each was to make his own, * for a few. weeks the ANGLIN brothers, MORRIS and that all of them had to stop digging since there was to utility gorridor of B cell . and — said that they were ¢ lage their holes so that no _ id “ 74 oR
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