The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-03
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 riot started were rescued. They were wounded and weak from loss ol blood. They had lain on the floor more than seven hours feign- lng death to escape the convictS bullets, before their rescue shortly before midnight. A fifth escaped uninjured.
 Another guard still was directing fl1e attack by telephone from a position in the cell block from where he could not retreat for fear of be- iu1 cut down by the convicts' fire.
 Despite the fact that they no longer stand a chance of getting off the island alive, the band of mur- derers, bank robbers and kidnapers continued to fire sporadically early today.
 They were locked into the west wing of the main cellblock, sur- rounded and outnumbered.
 Six Are Ringleaders
 Warden Johnston early today named six convicts !"as the ring leaders who seized arms and shot officers who were hostages in their plot to make a mass escape"
 He Identified them as Joseph Paul Gretzer, 35, bank robber and mur- derer: Bernard Paul Coy, 46, armed robber; Miriam Edger Thompson, 29, kidnaper-murderer; Sam Schockley 36, kidnaper-bank robber; Marvin Franklin Hubbard, 34, kidnaper, and Clarence Carnes, 19, kidnaper.
 Two destroyer escorts and five Coast Guard cutters and patrol boats maintained tight blocklge around '@The Rock" to prevent any convicts from escaping across the Ik mile wide channel to the main land.
 The detachment of more than 20 Marines, many of them battle-hard- ened veterans of the Pacific war, went ashore from patrol boat at 6:18 p.m., PST., last night QO:18 p. m., EDTD more than four hours after a convict overpowered a guard, seized his submachine gun and ral- lied other inmates in an attempted break.
 Apparently Fight to Finish
 Marine Major Albert Arsenault, Greenfield, Mass, who went ashore on Alcatraz late last night, said the guard who was overpowered in the initial outbreak still was trapped in the cell block.
 Arsenault identified the guard as Bert A. Burch. He said Burch, un- injured except for a blow on the head, had knocked over a telephone and was directing the fire against the lvicts with nasty converse ton while lying on the floor.
 'The convicts are shooting, not talking, and apparently it is a fight to the finish" Arsenault said.
 The majority of the 300 prisoners did not participate in the attempt ed break. They were herded out of their cells and into yard where, under the watchful eyes of armed Marines, they spent the night in the cold.
 Started at 2 p. m.
 Arsenault, who talked to Warden VdAA1Co A. OO1u4oIOA Co14y CJQdy, said the riot started shortly after 2 p. m. CPST, (6 p. m. EDT) yesterday when convict, believed to be Coy, serving g years for bank robbery, jumped Burch and seized his sub-machine gun, pistol and keys to the cell block.
 Five other prison officers noticed the commotion and rushed to the gun gallery. They were cut down by fire from Coy and several other eonvicts whom he had gotten out of their cells.
 An unknown number of women, believed to be wives of guards, nurs- es and clerical workers, were re- ported to have taken refuge in an air raid shelter on the island.
 The wounded were brought ashore in patrol craft at Fort Mcdowell pier on the San Francisco water front an dwere taken immediately to the Marine Hospital.
 Assured MenfOlk Okay
 Sobbing wives and children of prison employees crowded the pier at Aquatic Park far into the night awaiting word of their husbands and fathers.
 Civilian workers evacuated early m the fighting treasured them that nav TN