Escape from Alcatraz: The Mystery of the Three Men Who Escaped From The Rock
By Eric Braun
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Eric Braun
Eric Braun has written dozens of books for readers of all ages and edited hundreds more. He is a McKnight fellow and a nice fellow, and he likes to ride his bike really far and really fast. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two sons, some of whose antics have found their way into his books (unbeknownst to them).
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Escape from Alcatraz - Eric Braun
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CHAPTER 1
SOUND THE ALARM!
At the crack of dawn, Cellblock B in the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was silent and dark. Clarence Carnes, a longtime prisoner, lay on his bunk, already awake. He’d barely slept all night. Suddenly, the wake-up bell rang out, just as it did every morning, and the prisoners began to stir. They had 15 minutes to get out of bed, go to the bathroom, and get dressed. Some stayed in bed to grab a few extra minutes of sleep.
After 15 minutes a whistle pierced the air, and the prisoners walked to the front of their cells. It was time for the morning head count.
Carnes was one of the first inmates at the front of his cell. He stood eagerly at the bars and looked around. He listened as the guards walked down the aisle and counted prisoners one at a time. He had reason to believe that the count might be short this morning. His friends had planned a daring overnight escape from the escape-proof
prison. He hoped they had made it.
What Carnes heard next made his heart leap. One of the guards called for a recount. It was possible that the guard had simply made a mistake and needed to count again. But Carnes didn’t think so. His friends were smart, and they had a good plan. They had been working on their escape for months and had been painstaking about every last detail. Right now, Carnes imagined, they were breathing fresh outside air. He suppressed a smile as Officer Lawrence Bartlett, the guard on duty, counted again.
Officer Bartlett soon noticed that prisoner John, J.W.,
Anglin had not gotten up. He walked over, reached between the bars, and tapped the prisoner’s pillow. But Anglin did not respond. Bartlett called Lieutenant Bill Long down for a look. He told Long that Anglin was either dead — or he had been replaced by a life-sized dummy.
Long poked Anglin’s head. Still, Anglin just lay there. He poked it again, harder, and this time his fingers pushed right through. Startled, he swatted the head, and it rolled off the bunk onto the floor. It was a dummy! Long jumped back.
Long reached through the bars, yanked the blanket down, and saw rolled up blankets and clothes that Anglin had placed there to look like his body. He quickly went to the next cell, that of Clarence Anglin, John’s brother, and pulled off his blanket. Clarence’s bed was also filled with blankets and a fake head. There was one more prisoner missing from the head count — Frank Morris. Long dashed over to Morris’s cell and pulled the covers off his dummy head and blankets. He was gone too!
A call was made to acting Warden Arthur Dollison. He lived in a duplex on the island with his family. When the phone rang in his home, Dollison felt a chill of dread go through him. It could not be good news to get a phone call right after the morning count. As he and more officers rushed to the cellblock, an escape alarm blared throughout the prison and all across the island, indoors and out.
Adding to the commotion, another prisoner was calling out to the guards from his cell.
I planned the entire escape,
Allen West cried out. In his hands he held what looked like a vent cover, only it was made of cardboard.
Meanwhile, officers climbed up on top of Cellblock B, which was constructed of prison cells stacked three-high. Looking up, they saw a roof vent that had its bars removed. The prisoners had gone through there. The vent shaft led to the roof and was capped by a rain hood. But when officers got to the roof, they saw that the rain hood had been knocked aside. On the north side of the building, barbed wire had been cut from the fence. Outside the fence, the grass was matted down as if people had been there. The officers could hardly believe their eyes. The Rock,
the impenetrable fortress of Alcatraz, had been breached.
Dozens of officers fanned out all over the island. They searched the cell house, the workshops, storerooms, and other buildings. They checked an old dungeon below the cell house. They scoured the beaches, tramped through shrubbery, and inspected the caves along the shore. By boat, they patrolled the water around the island looking for bodies in the cold, churning sea.
At this point, Alcatraz officers realized that Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin were most likely not on the island anymore. They called the San Francisco office of the FBI and informed them of what had happened. The FBI alerted the local police, the California Highway Patrol, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Coast Guard, and all the sheriffs’ offices in the area. A search was begun