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Alcatraz Escape — Part 17

80 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Prisons & Escapes · Topic: Alcatraz Escape · 77 pages OCR'd
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” ee : an < 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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