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Alcatraz Escape — Part 7
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him to leave his cell. Also, if he had completed his, it
would have been necessary to make the false rear to it to possibly
% detection. JOHN ANGLIN had cemented up a portion of
ee ee to the rear where he had cracked the side of the
eement to the utility corridor so no one d notice it.
In addition, while working in his cell, had helped make
the paddles they intended to use He made four paddies,
they were of plywood, twelve (12) inches by eight (8) inches
and with a wooden handle. He put about two or three bolts
through the paddle and handle to hold them together. These
paddles were stored up on top of the cell block and inside the
ventilator pipe.
MORRIS indicated that they could go that evening if
they got the lid off of the top of the ventilator. He said
that the bars below it were out of the way and he felt that they
would get that off by 9:30 p.m. He left and went up to the
roof. Shortly thereafter, eard some noises and started
making noise to cover it up so no one would notice it At
9:22 p.m., that date, CLARENCE ANGLIN tapped o:
ventilator and said that they could see the moon tried
to kick the rest of the cement out of the hole at the back of his
cell. He could not do it. ANGLIN tried to help for a minute or
so, but could not do anything. He then went up and got MORRIS.
MORRIS came down and put the dummy in his bed. The lights were
out at 9:30 p.m. and MORRIS went up and got a two
inch piece of pipe and handed it to ried to push it
out but could not do it without making oO muc ee
ho:
left to go get CLARENCE ANGLIN to help clear out’
This happened at 9:37 p.m. that evening. This is the last
or saw of them, As there was no dummy head for his bed,
was afraid at that time to break through his cell until
after the 3:00 a.m. count.
At about 1:45 a.m une 12, 1962, after waiting sone-
time for them to come back, ecame anxious and broke through
his hole and went to the roor, way, e utility corridor.
There was no dummy for his bed. When! got into the uti]ity
corridor he noticed that they had 1 "laying there and
he used this dummy head in his bed. took his blue dungarees,
undershirt, and blue serge pea jacket the roof with h:
could see that they had gone as the material, etc. which
had worked on, and Which they had described to him, was gone.
In addition, there had been some one hundred (100) feet of a
heavy electrical cording which had been laying on the floor of
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