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Alcatraz Escape June 13, 1962 On the day he obtained the motor from the vacuum cleaner, one of the inmates was hit over the head an r inmate in the kit- | ghen area and“during the confusion he was able to smuggle the motor to hig celI without anyone noticing him. hid Wotor was given to Morris and the ns, and they took it to the roof to use as a : drill. They said that it madg¢_too much noiee and they could not | use it much. They were finalty able to [oosen the tampins in the lid covering the ventilator to the roofing. After getting thems ~- out} they replaced them so they could be easily removed. Some time before this, Clarence lin mad head out of cement ‘ which was to be used by when and he Te 6 cell an wZ . which was to be stored on top of the cell block near the roof. re] iy About the first part of May, 196 obtained an olive’ colore® rubberized raincoat Yaincoat from one 24 - inmates who was trans- - f Tom this Ss ution and over the next few days obtained -a couple of more of such raincoats. In addition, over the next few days he would pick up a raiacoat when it was placed down by another inmate and when phie indivigeet was not looking. In the evening he would take these raincoat and cut them up and paste them together With some glue which had possibly been obtained from the Zlove factory at the institution. He would also sew some of the material together. He male a yoke life preserver out of this,and-hed/ fade valvea out of pieces of tu’ WHic. 6 could pick up at -various tines - At night the-raincoats and ther d_the residue were hidden top 0. e cell biock near the roof in the ventila- tor pipe. ade all four yoke life pres John Anglin was using the same type raincoat in making the retk. they proposed to use, By eet bite of this material were handed into the back of cell go 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 o the underneath section of the raft. Originally, John Anglin had said that he had made a wooden type valve arrangement for one of the sections of the Pontoon byt 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 La valve type arrangement was made with it so that you could put #ae 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 bellow . . . oad . ; . a June 11, 1962 Morris had told we that we still ; had in had the top off of the ventilator leading to the roof and 38