Character Quotes
Finn O’Leary Quotes
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Sal DeLuca Quotes
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Billy ‘Handsome’ Quotes
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Al ‘Weasel’ Arlington Quotes
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Brutus Quotes
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Stanley Ferguson (Guard Tour Tapes) Quotes
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- My name is Stanley Ferguson, I was a guard at Alcatraz from 1933 to 1942. Today, I'm going to give you some insight into one of the more interesting tales of the prisons history.
- Over the decades, Alcatraz has seen more than its fair share of daring escape attempts. However, few were as audacious as the one undertaken by four inmates, on New Years Eve, 1933.
- Thought to be the brainchild of an inmate by the name of Albert Arlington, the outrageous scheme was as unlikely as its mastermind.
- It's believed that Arlington, aka The Weasel, somehow convinced three other inmates that he had devised a fool-proof plan to escape "The Rock." It was a plan that would seek, literally, taking to the skies on a makeshift aircraft of Arlington's own design.
- Just how The Weasel managed to convince these hardened criminals that such a plan was even possible, remains a mystery to this day.
- What is known, is that no such plane was every built. Instead, the groups plans for freedom soon descended into bitter argument, and infighting.
- With the plan falling apart, anger and frustration would ultimately lead to a brutal altercation between the misguided Arlington and his former co-conspirators.
- Armed only with makeshift weapons, Finn O'Leary, Sal Deluca, and Billy Handsome lured the unsuspecting Arlington to the roof, where they intended to exact a bloody and violent revenge.
- And so it was here, beneath the dark and stormy winter skies, that the hapless Arlington met his grizzly end, bleeding to death on the cold, concrete roof.
- For their participation in the murder, the three collaborators were set to death by electric chair. Justice came swiftly. On the morning of January 19, 1934, the execution order was carried out.