In my display cabinet there is a piece of stone from the most famous prison in the world: Alcatraz. It is a lump of concrete from the infamous cell complex, including the rusted remains of an iron grille. If you take the object in hand, you simply feel the history of the former prison island in America.
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Alcatraz appeals to the imagination enormously in many people. Every year the island, which served as a prison between 1934 and 1963, attracts nearly one and a half million tourists. This is mainly due to the special stories in the prison island, which lies in the bay of San Francisco.
Alcatraz is considered the heaviest secure jail of all time. Only the biggest criminals were stored there, such as Gangster Al Capone, the unscrupulous murderer James Joseph Buler and the notorious bank robber George ‘Machine Gun’ Kelly.
Escape from Alcatraz was impossible, the government knew. The prison was completely surrounded with heavily armed guards. They had the order to take a targeted shooting at anyone who even gave the impression of breaking out.
And then there was the location of the prison island, in the middle of the bay of San Francisco. The island was too far away from the mainland to reach it swimming and the current was extremely dangerous. Moreover, the water of the bay of San Francisco is icy cold.
For that reason, Alcatraz, as the only prison in all of America, had hot showers. There was a smart strategy behind that. If there is unexpectedly a prisoner on Alcatraz escaping from his cell and swimming to the side, he would die from lower cooling in no time, because his body was only used to warm water.
Yet three prisoners managed to escape: bank robbers John and Clarence Anglin and the violent revolving door criminal Frank Morris. The three of them managed to break out in a spectacular way.
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The crooks had stolen tools during a cleaning job, with which they cut a hole into a ventilation shaft. In the night of 11 June 1962 they placed nephoofs on their pillow, made of toilet paper, water and soap. On the counterfeit heads, the three crooks had even stuck real hair, which they had secretly taken from the hair salon.
After the trio crawled out through the shaft system, the most exciting part began. Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers had saved fifty raincoats very cleverly. They crafted them quickly together into a primitive, rubber smoothly. Then they paddled to the mainland in the dark.
Although the Gate Bridge footsteps were found later, the authorities refused to admit that the escape attempt had been successful. The FBI has always maintained that the three would have drowned. Nothing was heard of the three crooks.
Until … 2018. News channel CBS had managed to lay hands on a letter from 2013 by John Anglin to the San Francisco police. John Anglin, who would be sick, wanted to close a deal with the judiciary. In exchange for medical assistance, the escaped prisoner would reveal his address. John Anglin was willing, once healed, to spend another year behind bars.
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The story of the successful escape is one of the many mysteries of Alcatraz. For example, the management of the prison island with the prisoners would have formed a music band that practiced on Sunday. The banjo would have been played by nobody but … Al Capone itself.
But how does the Kramer get that the nickname that piece of Alcatraz in his display case, you will think. Well, in the 1990s the prison building on Alcatraz was thoroughly renovated. To pay for it, the American monument care has sold chunks of the building to souvenir hunters. Including bars and authenticity certificate.