1940

Events Docu-Links
Roy Gardner is found dead in a San Francisco hotel room. He has killed himself using poisonous gas.
A fire in the mat shop is believed to have been started by an incendiary. Fire in Mat Shop
Theodore "Blackie" Audett leaves Alcatraz on conditional release as 208-AZ.
Hunger strike
Joe Vigorous attacks John McGlone for no apparent reason.
Joseph Paul Cretzer and Arnold Kyle arrive on Alcatraz after attempting escape from McNeil Island Penitentiary.McNeil Island Report
on Cretzer
Theodore "Blackie" Audett returns to Alcatraz to begin a new sentence for "entering a bank to commit larceny" as 551-AZ.
Henry Young stabs Rufus McCain.Memos On Stabbing
General Strike.
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