By Robert Livesey
ISBN-10: 0919788173
ISBN-13: 9780919788176
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M. shift wakes me. "Come on Karpis, get up. " He smiles before replying. " "Everyone is waiting downstairs," announce the two mar- shals to the FBI agent outside my cell. " 1 ask and all three of them laugh with me. When we step out of the elevator downstairs McKee is waiting along with four marshals and two FBI agents. " He is referring to the $5 which I am allowed while in jail for commissary purposes such as candy and cigarettes. As I run out of money, I can ask for another $5 from my funds which are kept in the jail office.
A lcatraz Friday, August 7, 1936 The shrill ring of the bell shocks me into my first morning at Alcatraz. The icy water in the wash basin burns against my skin. I hate this place already. M. I hate the hollow clanging of metal doors being rolled open. I hate the slow moving chow line as it inches toward the breakfast steam table and I hate the insipid pile of cooked cereal dumped on my tray without milk or sugar. waterW. The coffee helps to wash the mush down. The mess hall is an uneasy place. The eyes of the screws flick nervously across the section of tables assigned to them, ready to pounce abruptly on violators breaking the rule of silence.
The attendant finishes his job and starts up the stairs. " All the clothing is size XL. Mine would fit a six-footer with a forty-inch waist. If they were trousers rather than coveralls they would fall around my ankles. The "long johns" of heavy wool seem out of place for sunny California. Once we dress an officer begins to lay down the rules to the line of uniformly clad cons. "We have a silent system here! At no time are you to talk or make a noise while in the cell house or mess hall at Alcatraz!