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we for Boys by the District of Columbia Juvenile Court and sentenced to six years, nine months and eighteen days. He was paroled and violated same and was remanded to the Federal Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio, on January 22, 1943. From November 19, 1945, to July 12, 1948, he served time for burglary at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. On January 11, 1949, he was received at the Florida State Penitentiary to serve four years for breaking and entering. He was received at the Toulsiand State Penitentiary on June 13, 1952, to serve a ten- year sentence for possession of narcotics and armed robbery. At the time of MORRIS’ escape from Alcatraz, he was serving a sentence of fourteen years for bank burglary, which sentence he received on September 19, 1956. He was received at Alcatraz on January 18, 1961, as a transferee from the United States. Penitentiary at Atlanta. The bank burglary for which MORRIS s. time We at Alcatraz was tted in the company o. and nk oO They burglarized th deli, > ulsiana , ring the night of November 24-25, 1955. They obtained $6,165.00 in coins which weighed a total of 1,200 pounds. Entry to the bank was gained through a hole in the wall in back of the first floor. They attempted to come down through the ceiling through the office upstairs but did not succeed. A hole was burned in bank vault No. 1, but they did not gain access to 1t. They were successful in burning a hole in bank vault No. 2. Tear gas located in both bank vaults was discharged. MORRIS and his two accomplices were taken into custody by Sheriff and Deputies of Terrebonne Parish at Houma, Louisiana, in september 1956. ey were acc ‘and urned over to lrederal au burglary. MORRIS an entered guilty pleas on . September 19, 1956, IS was sentenced to fourteen years - on one count and five years on a second count, to run con- currently. 8S last known_to be at the United States Penitentiary, nta, Georgia, as incarcerated at the anied es and charged with bank Federal Medical Center, Springfi vy ssourl, for approximately ~ three years and was then afforded a mental competency hearing. He was subsequently remanded to the Louisiana State Penitentiary on April 25, 1961, where he is presently incarcerated with a Federal warrant filed as a detainer. -he ue ey were subsequently