Joseph Bowers Joseph Bowers Joseph "Dutch" Bowers (December 13, 1896 – April 27, 1936) was the first man to attempt an escape from Alcatraz prison. On 27 April 1936, convict Henry Larry 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 seventy feet to his death on the rocks below.
Escape from Terror: The Teresa Stamper Story unsuccessful, as he finds them there and leaves Teresa flowers. Sheriff Douglass tries to recapture Paul at the hotel room of the inmate who had helped him escape from prison, but the recapture was also unsuccessful. Chris encourages Teresa to break up with him so she can start a new life, to which she kisses him and accepts. Five years later, on Katie's fifth birthday at their new house in Nashville Tennessee, Paul calls Teresa and tells her to wish his daughter a happy birthday for him. Teresa tells Paul to leave her and Katie alone. Teresa reports this incident