Joseph Bowers

For the rugby league footballer, see Joe Bowers. For the Roman Catholic bishop, see Joseph Oliver Bowers.
Joseph Bowers
Born(1896-12-13)December 13, 1896
Rohrbach, Austria[1]
DiedApril 27, 1936(1936-04-27) (aged 39)
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Other namesJoseph "Dutch" Bowers
Known forBeing the first prisoner to attempt to escape from the Alcatraz prison.

Joseph "Dutch" Bowers (December 13, 1896 – April 27, 1936) was the first man to attempt an escape from Alcatraz prison. He was born in Rohrbach, Austria. Bowers was arrested for robbery of mail with a firearm.[1]

Alcatraz

Bowers arrived at Alcatraz on 4 September 1934.[1]

On 27 April 1936, convict Henry Larry[citation needed] claims to have watched Bowers, who was feeding seagulls, stack some empty barrels and climb up next to the fence so he could retrieve a bit of food which had fallen on the barbed wire. He stood there feeding the birds for several minutes until a tower guard turned, saw him atop the fence, and fired on the convict. Bowers fell sixty feet to his death on the rocks below.

As documented in "The Desperate Escape of Joseph Bowers" at AlcatrazHistory.com:

Joseph Bowers was by all accounts a desperado and loner, unable to come to terms with the conditions of Alcatraz. Imprisoned during the toughest and most strict era on Alcatraz, Bowers, serving a 25-year sentence for Postal Mail Robbery that netted a mere sixteen dollars and thirty eight cents. He held an expansive criminal record and as one report highlighted: 'If at large, he probably would engage again in criminal activities and constitute a serious menace to the public safety and society.' He had claimed, and it was also supported in belief by fellow inmates that his crimes had resulted from a lacking ability to support himself. He claimed that he was completely desperate and out of funds, hungry and mostly unable to afford food or proper lodging.[2]

The incident termed Bowers's "Desperate Escape" was variously deemed by inmates to have been an actual escape attempt, a deliberate suicide (Bowers had made multiple suicide attempts, and was deemed by some prisoners to be criminally insane), an attempt to climb up to grab garbage wedged in the chain link fence (Bowers was assigned to the garbage incinerator detail), or an attempt to climb the fence to feed a seagull. However, regardless of Bowers's initial motive, it is indisputable that Bowers ignored the guards' forceful signals to halt and he kept climbing even after the guards began firing, such that he fell on the outside of the fence.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ a b c NARA Microfilm Publication 458, Series: Alphabetical Index of Former Inmates of U.S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz, 1934–63. Pacific Regional Office, San Francisco: Records of the Bureau of Prisons, 1870–2009, Record Group 129, NARA.
  2. ^ a b "The Desperate Escape of Joseph Bowers". AlcatrazHistory.com. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
  3. ^ "Alcatraz: Greatest Prison Escapes: Crazed Postal Worker". investigation.discovery.com. Investigation Discovery Videos. 2008. Archived from the original on 2012-05-12.

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