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Alcatraz Escape — Part 7
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After taking out the ventilator grille then
had an area to the left and below the ventilator grille
to knock out. Thie was also approximately three inches in depth,
however, with the ventilator grille out ould place his
arm throu; six inch by nine inch opening and get better
leverage. as of April 25, 1962, had practically
completed OC. out the small remaining portion of cement.
He decided not to disturb the side of the cement adjacent
to the utility corridor any further since, if any one checked
the plumbing, they might notice same.
JOHN ANGLIN had knocked his completely out by this
time and one evening had crawled into the utility corridor.
ANGLIN made a false cement back to cover the area he had knocked
out of the wall leading into the utility corridor so it would
not be noticed. JOHN then did work from the utility corridor
side and assisted CLARENCE ANGLIN in completing his hole.
JOUN and CLARENCE ANGLIN then made a smail dummy
face out of cement and gave it a flesh color. They put hair and
eyebrows on it with glue and they named it "Oink."
After CLARSIICE broxe through his hole in the wall,
they made a cummy back for the hole which couid be removed.
This was made out of cardboard and painted. One evening
CLARENCE ANGLIN went up the utility corridor to near the roof,
using the network of plumbing in the corridor as a ladder,
He crawled on top of the cell blocks. He used a screw driver
and tried to take the screws out of the eighteen and one-half
inch diameter metal coupling which was between the roof
ventilator and the roof. He could not acc sh this by
himseif and needed help. About this time in connection
with his work detail, had to paint one da: he utility
corridor and above the cell block area in the vicinity
roof ventilator, While painting in that area that aay ala
took the screws out of the ventilator coupling. He had taken
clamp from his bed and bolted them together and used them as a
clasp, thus succeeding in loosening the screws of the coupling.
The coupling, although unscrewed, was still in place so no one
would notice anything amiss, .
About this time, CLARENCE ANGLIN made a second dummy
head of cement which was stored on top o2 the cell biock next
to the roof, This one was called "OSCAR" and was to be given to
FRANX MORRIS, Then CLARKIICE ANGLIN and FRANX MORRIS went up
the utility corridor next to the roof on about three evenings and
She
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