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-~— g- = ncn > , a . pr. * erm roam 0. cy “ SI . . ee r oxrrep STATES GO}""RNMENT i ) . ” Memorandum * to : DERECTOR, FBI (76-26295) DATE: * 10-15-63 _ : S40 Sam wRawcrsco (76-0887) <Pu “ ww : OAV MAR Fnanvanyy | Smeeul fj +s \ SUMMARY OF INVESTIGATION a “a At 7:15 AM, June 12, 1962, officers of the United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz, California, discovered that FRANK LEE MORRIS, JOHN WILLIAM ANGLIN and CLARENCE ANGLIN, all inmates, had escaped from their eells, leaving flesh-~ colored dumsy faces in their beds. The escape route consisted of holes dug through the back of their cell walls near the , Ventilator area, Climbing plumbing pipe in the utility eorridor behind the celis to the top of the cell block, where they broke through the bars and ventilator lid onto the roof. They apparently climbed dow from the roof by way of the bakery smokestack at the rear of the cell house, went over the chain-link fence and to the northeast shore ° of the island. Investigation indicated that the escape RS b ta Vee, evidently occurred around 10:00 PM the preceding evening. A similar hole was found in the cell —_ as well as a flesh-colored | dummy face, 6 that Escapees had left him at about PM on June 11, 1962, supposedly to return and [4 hele in the rear hehhs cell, but he had not seen veber thet ntehe sesleted the bole 45 hts Later that night Omp~sted thse Hole in his ceil, proceeded to the roof, and ascertained they had gone. He returned to his cell and went to bed, aimed that the Escapees had taken a six~ foot by rourteen-foot raft made from rubberized raincoats of inmates and three yolk life preservers similarly made. These articles had been made and stored on top of the cell Dlook immediately under the cell house roof, and Escapees had worked on same in the evening after breaking out of oelis., They planned to escape to Angel Island in San Francisco Bay and then to the mainland, where they would commit b urglary to obtain guns and clothing, a Pa sod teave toe tres." E102. neo Sh 6 -2ta¢s-/5 Bureau 2-S8an Francisco we (—_ - aay mien