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to see his passes. As Giles disembarked from the launch, Miller and Bergen approached him and without any struggle, they handcuffed him and took him aboard the Warden Johnston to head back to the island. “You really felt kind of sorry for him once you saw the look on his face” Captain of the Guards Phil Bergen would later recall ...“He really should have won some sort of an award with that uniform.”

Giles was immediately returned to the island and was placed directly into the solitary strip cell. The FBI investigated the escape and put together an inventory of the items that had been found in Giles’s possession.

Warden James A. Johnston

United States Penitentiary

Alcatraz Island

San Francisco, California

Re: John Knight Giles

Dear Warden Johnston:

Pursuant to your request the following to your request the following personal effects which were found in the possession of the above captioned subject at the time of his apprehension at Angel Island on July 31, 1945 are being listed below:

One set of prison underwear.

One pair of prison socks.

One pair of brown prison shoes.

One regulation Army tie.

One pair of regulation U.S. Army pants labeled Kane Manufacturing Company, 1/19/43.

One Khaki Army overseas cap, red bordered #K-9699.

One regulation Army shirt bearing laundry mark #P2587.

One U.S. Army field jacket, size 38 L, bearing no identification marks, with Technical Sergeant’s chevrons on sleeve.

One white pouch containing small comb.

One navy blue pouch containing two flashlight bulbs, one Texaco touring map of San Francisco and the Bay Area, one State Auto Association map of Marin County, one small taped ball containing odd change.

One navy blue pouch containing shoulder patch U.S. Army, Pacific Coast Frontier Defense Sector.

One navy blue pouch containing two glass cases, one case containing subject’s silver rimmed glasses, the other containing a white powder believed to be stomach powder.

One handkerchief, brown striped border.

One small memo book approximately three by five inches, contents blank.

One small piece of white cloth.

One U.S. Army official dog tag in the name GEORGE F. TODD, #38409746 T43.

One enlisted man’s temporary pass issued in the name of TODD dated 0730 July 31 to 0730 August 2, ’45 “to visit Bay Area”. The above described tag and pass were used by subject in an ineffectual attempt to elude detection at Fort McDowell.

One white cloth pouch containing U.S. Army dog tag in the name of ARTHUR L. WADE #34506347 T43, Army dog tag in the name of ERNEST D. BENNETT, #33573388, one broken tube Barbasol shaving cream containing $1.38 in change.

One Pall Mall cigarette package containing seven assorted shoulder patches, U.S. Army, two chevrons U.S. Army Staff Sergeant, one new U.S. Army Air Corps shoulder patch wrapped in tissue paper.

Four undated enlisted men’s temporary passes in the name of A.L. WADE, Staff Sergeant, #34506347, Hq. Btry. A 256 AAA, granting permission to visit Bay Area.

Six blank enlisted men’s passes.

Three blank temporary passes bearing the stamped signature of WILLIAM B. BURCH.

One fountain pen, gold colored.

One gray flashlight marked “USM” containing two Every-Ready batteries marked for use before June, 1944.

One small cardboard box containing blank furlough paper form #31, War Department,... G.O.

One metal Bayer Aspirin box containing sixty cents in assorted change and several strands of what appears to be human hair.

One small Colgate toothpaste tube painted green containing a brown substance believed to be glue.

One seed envelope containing unidentified white powder.

One Army tie.

One pair regulation Army socks.

One traced insignia of Pacific Coast Frontier Defense Sector.

One small cardboard box containing two wooden objects both carved in the shape of a “U” approximately one inch in length, covered with waxlike substance.

One small tin box containing piece of broken mirror.

One small medicine bottle containing ink.

One small cardboard box containing razor,