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...wanted to challenge the supposition. Sweeping the floors in A, B and C cell blocks, he watched Guard Bert Burch walk the gun gallery behind steel bars. The unarmed floor guards were out of sight. Guard Burch, on routine patrol, passed on along the gallery into D block...
...Killers. D block is Alcatraz' "solitary." There Coy freed Joseph Cretzer; bank robber and murderer; Marvin Hubbard, kidnaper; Sam Shockley, Oklahoma badman; Miran Thompson, murderer; 18-year-old "baby" Clarence Carnes. They pounced on Guard William Miller, beat him, took his keys. They threw other guards in a cell. Cretzer, armed with Burch's .45, stood outside yelling and firing at the guards through the bars. He wounded several, killed Miller...
...Rock's siren wailed across the Bay. Outside the cell block, James J. Johnston, 71-year-old warden, known to the inmates as "Saltwater" Johnston, radioed for help to San Francisco police and the Coast Guard. Johnston's remaining guards herded 150 prisoners out of prison shops and into the yard. Other prisoners crouched in their cells...
When bloodhounds (antisyphilitic "magic bullets") are set upon Corky, he realizes that he must make a mad dash through the body, decides that the quickest way is to get into the heart and get pumped around. So he latches on to the first blood cell that floats by and puts an outboard motor on it. At Mucosa, where he finds his cohorts blasting out a skin eruption, he embarrasses them by using the naughty, half-forbidden word, syphilis. He is reminded: "We don't mention the word among ourselves, and brother, we get around...
First Frank had been hysterical. When the U.S. Army brought him to Mondorf Interrogation Center, he was clad only in lace panties and sobbed: "I am a criminal." Later he tried to commit suicide. After the Nurnberg trials opened Frank became a Catholic, prayed daily in his cell. On the witness stand he was fervent: "I have at last gained an insight into the terrible atrocities. ... I can't allow it before my conscience that responsibility . . . should be handed over to ... small people alone.... I have used words which I am sorry now I used." Only once...