Friday, 9 August 2013

Eastern State Penitentiary Escape

Eastern State Penitentiary Escape April 3rd 1945.

At the Eastern State Penitentiary in 1945 from cell 68 in cell block 7. The cell of Clarence Klinedinst, he escaped with 11 other inmates though a hole in the wall of his cell, that had a fake panel. This went down to a tunnel that came out, just outside the outside wall of the prison.
 The tunnel extended 15 feet down and then 97 feet outward.

Six of the inmates were recaptured the same day.

Each day the inmates worked on the tunnel, they slwly tricked down the toilet the dirt that was cut away.

Some of the other the other inmates that esacaped that spring day were:

William Sutton.
Fredrick Tenuto.
James Van Sent.
David Aiken.
James Grace.
William Russell.
Robert MCKnight

One of the escapes James Van Sent wrote a poem about the escape, titled " The Leaky Pen"
Here are a few lines It begins.

" Twelve of the boys in Easten Pen
were serving their time that had no end
When out of nowhere there appeared a  hole,
which Khney had dug just like a mole."

Does anyone know the rest of this poem?
Also I don't have the last three inmates names that took part in the escape.
Can anyone help with this so I can fill in the gapes of this .
Thank you. 

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