While working as garbage workers, robbers Burgett and Johsnon overpowered, bound and gagged an officer at knifepoint before attempting to swim from the island. September 29, 1958: Aaron Burgett, Clyde Johnson

His sudden absence ignited a nearly 12-hour manhunt that eventually found the escapee hiding inside the depression of a rock along AlcatrazвЂ™s shore. READ MORE: 10 Things You May Not Know About Alcatraz July 23, 1956: Floyd WilsonДЇloyd Wilson disappeared from his job one morning while working as a stevedore on the Alcatraz dock.

They were sentenced to death and eventually executed by lethal gas while Carnes, who was 19, received a second life sentence. In the aftermath, Shockley, Thompson and Carnes were charged with killing the two officers. As for the prisoners? Coy, Cretzer and Hubbard were killed. Marines were called in, left two officers dead and some 18 others injured. The standoff, which became so intense U.S. So instead of turning themselves in, the prisoners spent days battling against the officers. On May 2, six prisoners overpowered the cellhouse offices and gained access to their weapons and cellhouse keys.В A promising start fell apart, however, after the prisoners realized they didn't have the keys to the yard necessary to leave the prison. The most famous escape attempt, remembered as вЂњThe Battle of Alcatraz,вЂќ resulted from a bloody, three-day standoff between prisoners and the guards. Non rioting convicts had gathered in yard (3) to the left of where the main battle raged. Guards hurled tear gas bombs into cell block (5) from catwalk (10). This aerial photo of the island identify the principal buildings and location of violence during the incident: 1. Photo diagram of the Battle of Alcatraz that took place at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary from May 2nd-4th, 1946. By 11 a.m., he was apprehended and on his way back to the Rock. There was also the issue of GilesвЂ™s uniform-it fit badly and looked different from those of his вЂњfellow officersвЂќ on board. Officers on board the army vessel noticed they had one too many men while patrolmen at AlcatrazвЂ™s dock noticed one too few convicts. Almost immediately, things went downhill. Army technical sergeant, Giles calmly walked out of the prison and onto an army launch boat under the guise of being a military officer. One morning, at about 10:40 a.m., after spending several years piecing together a uniform resembling a U.S. While a prisoner at Alcatraz, GilesвЂ™s job was to unload dirty army laundry from the loading dock to be cleaned at the penitentiary. Technically speaking, John Giles did escape off the island. But like many before him, he didnвЂ™t even make it to the water, being apprehended by officers at the shoreline. Huron Ted Walters was working in the prisonвЂ™s laundry room when he made his break for freedom.

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