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Alcatraz Escape — Part 11

151 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: Jul 17, 1962 · Broad topic: Prisons & Escapes · Topic: Alcatraz Escape · 150 pages OCR'd
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( 4 , i, ” 76=-2887 bs C_ a Liaison with police asencies, searches, neighborhood investigation and various inquiries in the San Francisco Bay area have developed no information indicating that Escapees arrived on the mainland. Authorities indicated that bodies of Escapees possibly carried out to sea by the outgoing tide which was existent during vertinent period and recovery of same remote. Interviews of relatives of Escapees, prison inmates, associates and acquaintances developed no information indicating Escapees had contacted them. yan fe Sing of penitentiary at Alcatraz, d taU. S. Penitentiary, HeNeil Island, to.U. S. Penitentiary, Leavenworth, came on recen®” transfe Sshington 5 Kansas; arid 7. S. Penitentiary, Atlanta, Geor zi v iam te RS AND -Pp-e- SUMMARY OF INVESTIGATION At 7:15 a.em., June 12, 1962, 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 the ventilator area, climbing plumbing pipe in the utility corridor behind the cells to the top of the cell block, where they broke through the bars and_ ventilator lid onto the roof. They apparently climbed down from the roof by way of the bakery smokestack at the rear of the ceil house, went over the chain-link fence and to the northeast shore of the island. Investication indicated that the escape evidently occurred around 10:00 p.m. the preceding evening. yw 2. A similar hole was found in the cell o wu sae: well as a flesh-colored dummy face. old F gents -?- Xa |
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