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Alcatraz Escape — Part 7

114 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Prisons & Escapes · Topic: Alcatraz Escape · 113 pages OCR'd
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5 cna be they took the coupling out of the roof hole and from the ventilator. They put grease around it so it would slide out easily and replaced it so that no one would notice anything aniss. a While working around the cell block. area painting, a GED 2: i020 that bolts in certain instances were screwed in a 0 tap and were not braddéed. He thus believed that this type of polt could be loosened and, therefore, since this was a type on a lid covering the ventilator o the roof, they would be able to remove that lid. When was painting near the Barber Shop he grabbed some electric barber clippers, placed them in a plastic bag and droppe¢ them into his paint bucket, He removed them later the same day and secreted them in his cell. About that time, one of them was able to obtat mn é6rill bits, the source of which was unimown t hen set up the motor of the barber clippers so that could be used with the aid of tae drill bits as a drill, MORRIS and one of the ANGLIN brothers tried to use this aa a drill in removing the bolts of the lid covering the ventilator to the roof. They said the motor was too small and would not do the job. About ime the vacuvm cleaner in the cell area broke down and ad a chance to examine it to see if it could be repaired. noted that it had two motors in it. He took one of the motors out and then he wired the other motor up so that it would run the vacuum cleaner, On the day he obtained the motor from the vacuum cleaner, one of the innates was hit over the head by another inmate in the kitchen area and during the confusion he was able to smuggle the motor to his ceil without anyone noticing bin. This motor was given to MORRIS enc the ANGLINs, and they toox it to the roof to use as a drill, They said that it made too much noise and they could not use it much. They were finaily able to loosen the tapins in the lid covering the ventilator to the roofing. After getting them out, they replaced them so they could be easily removed, Some time before this, CLARENCE In made a dummy hea? out of cement which was to be used by when, and if, he let his cell and which was to be stored on top of the cell block near the roof. . About the first part of May, 1962, obtained an olive colored rubberized raincoat from one of the inmates who was transferred from this institution and, over the next few day obtained a couple more of such raincoats. In addition, over -55= 73
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