Edward "Eddie" J. Adams
- A
Kansas bootlegger, car thief,
and murderer,
Adams was eventually
captured and sentenced to life imprisonment. He escaped custody twice
and was killed in a shootout with police in Wichita,
Kansas on November 22, 1921.
See full article HERE.
 John
William Anglin (1956-??) - Georgia bank robber who was arrested in
1956 and ultimately sent to
Alcatraz. He
escaped in the June 1962 was never seen again. He was born on May 2, 1930
in Donalsonville, Georgia and as a youth worked as a farmer and laborer.
However, when he and his brother, Clarence got older they began to
rob banks in Georgia. Both were arrested in 1956, given 15-20 year
sentences, and and sent to Atlanta Penitentiary (where they first
met Frank Morris and Allen West), Florida State Prison, and Leavenworth
Federal Penitentiary. When the pair tried to escape from Leavenworth, they
were sent to
Alcatraz with
John arriving on October 21, 1960 and Clarence arriving on January 10,
1961. Inside of a year, they began to plan an elaborate escape attempt
with Frank Morris and Allen West.
By late May, 1962, the
four had all finished cutting through the walls of their cells and on June
11th, Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers climbed the a ventilation shaft
through one of the chimneys and reached the top of the roof. Allen West,
who was believed to have been the mastermind in the escape plot, did not
escape as planned for unknown reasons. The three men who escaped then
climbed down the rooftop and paddled away on home-made rubber rafts. A
full-out search was conducted the next morning, but the three were never
found. Four days after their escape, a small pouch of photographs linked
to Clarence Anglin was found floating near the foot of the Golden Gate
Bridge. Officially, it was presumed that all three had drowned, but just
in case, the three men were placed on the FBI's
Most Wanted List. Some have said that at least one survived, as a man
claiming to be John Anglin had called a lawyer in San Francisco the day
after the escape. He wanted the lawyer to arrange a meeting with the US
Marshals Office, but when he refused, the man hung up. The escape was made
famous in the 1979 movie Escape from Alcatraz, starring Clint
Eastwood.
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