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Alcatraz Escape — Part 17
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< Photograph of the tools and equipment fashioned from”: .y
“peaaily-avattabie objects by the Subjects... The ones. that
are identifiable aré a8 follows: lower center, sharpenéd
_Bpoon handles which were used in penetrating cell walls; — 3
center, the object which looks like a radio speaker is a: {
motor removed from a vacuum cleaner and utilized as.a drill; 2 °
the round object immediately above the drill is a housing -
which was apparently fitted over the vacuum cleaner motor = ¥'.
to quiet the noise when it was in operation; upper right, —-”
piecesof electrical cord; middle left, these bolts with nuts,°
shafts and sleeves may have been used as means of applying :
pressure in spreading bars; extreme upper left, this is a t
: . homemade two-cell flashlight using two penlight batteries, b
1 ‘2 the case is made out of plastic and illumination obtained —
by making contact with the exposed portion of the bulb and ne
the small piece of metal immediately above and to the right <° /
of the bulb. The other items apparently are scraping, digging, '
cutting and gouging tools. Of added interest is the fact
that all of these objects had been discarded by placing them
in a five gallon paint bucket filled with liquid paint cement
and allowed to harden, thus hoping to avoid detection. .
This bucket was located in the Subjects' "work shop".on top.
of the cell block. Tone, . -
(Photo by Qaim 6/isi/62)
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