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Show -MYSTERYBOAT . Ill ISLE PRISON ' BREAKPROBED Launch Is Reported Seen Near Wharf Off Alcatraz SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18 (AP) Government agents today to-day announced a grim resolve to capture if still alive the two convicts who fled from Alcatraz prison, and investigated the presence of a mystery boat near the federal penitentiary. "We are going to catch everyone every-one connected with thla escape," declared Nat 1. U Pteper, agent in charge of the federal bureau of investigation here. Thoee wha harbor the eonvirta will- be prosecuted pros-ecuted Juat aa hard aa tha eon-victa eon-victa themselves." The two convicts. Ralph Rot, 2, Duncan, Ok la, bank robber, and Theodore Cole. 33, Stroud, Okie-, kidnaper, sneaked from the grim Island prison Thursday under cover of tha winter's worst fog. Authorities Author-ities believed they perished in Saa Francisco bay. Investigate Report The agents investigated a report that a 30-foot launch and a row-boat row-boat were teen near an abandoned wharf at Richmond, a abort distance dis-tance from Alcatras Island. George Jones, special patrolman, eighted the craft and summoned his father. Chief of Police L. E. Jones of Richmond. Chief Jones and other officers be- nevea the boats were engaged In illegal fishing, but the younger Jones declared the larger craft was a cabin cruiser and its presence near the old wharf waa a mystery to him. Pieper said his agents were investigating in-vestigating the boats and many other bita of information. Checking Clue "None of the leads yet have established es-tablished that any persons saw traces of the missing men," Pieper added. "We are not ssying whether they have or have not escaped, but until we know defiintely we are checking every possibility." He said J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the F. B. I., was watching the case very closely. Officers who have searched San Francisco bay and its shores since the two men vanished said they were without the slightest clus as to whereabouts of the prisoners or their bodies. Warden James A. Johnston, directing di-recting the dogged search, expressed ex-pressed again his belief the men met death in cold bay waters, swept by the strongest ebb tide in months when they vanished. "If they tried swimming without any makeshift contrivance they must have drowned within a few momenta," ha said. "At tha time they disappeared the tide waa SO swift it tossed drift. wood around like matches I don't aee how they even could hav stayed on a raft" Another inspection of waters around towers of the Golden Gate bridge, aome two milea west of Alcatraz. Al-catraz. waa planned today on the theory that strong eddiea set up by the piers might hav swept bodies of the psir inshore. Search FrnlUeea A search of the area and adjacent San Francisco shores yesterday was fruitless. Officials also pointed out that bodiea of several workmen, catapulted into the bay during construction con-struction of the bridge, never were found, apparently having been swept out to sea by the swift tides. Guards on the island maintained a close watch on tha possibility tht convicts still were in hiding on the 12-acr rock, where tide hav gouged numerous caves along the steep shoreline. But they admitted little hop of finding th men on the island- v |