Show II U S. S PENAL HEAD SEES BREAK TRY SAN FRANCISCO April 28 Tho The first convict to attempt an antl es escape escape es- es cape cap from Alcatraz Island bland prison lay In the San Francisco morgue to tody today to to- day dy his flight and life lIte ended by bya a guard guards bullet Guards opened fire firo when Joseph Bowers Bowell year old mall mail robber with many aliases scaled a wire wiro fence on the rock Island In San Francisco bay y yesterday Struck In the right shoulder houlder and thigh he h. plunged from the fence down a foot 60 cliff to the shore of the Island bland Death was wu caused by bya a bullet which pierced his shoulder shoulder shoulder der and lodged in a lung Transferred to Alcatraz from Leavenworth prison to servo out a sentence for tor a Butte Butto county Cal robbery Bowers made his hi mad mILd break as AI the prison was being Inspected by Sanford Bates federal director of prisons Warden arden James A A. Johnston who was Ru U showing howin Bates through the prison said laid Bowers Bower Ignored shouts and warning shots shou from guards His body ody plunged to the jagged rocks of ot the Islands Island's shore hore with more than a mile mUe of ot swirling water be between between between be- be tween him and the mainland His death cut the the prisons prison's population population pop pop- of ot Incorrigible convicts to but bat this number was increased a short hort time later by the arrival of ot 11 new inmates I |