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 Attempt Escape Attempt Escape Attempt (Russian: Попытка к бегству, "Popytka k begstvu") is a 1962 science fiction novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky set in the Noon Universe. The English translation was published in a single volume with the other Noon universe stories "Space Mowgli" and "The Kid from Hell". The novel tells a story of two young men from Earth, "Anton" and "Vadim", who decide to go for a trip to Pandora, but are persuaded rather to travel to an uncharted planet by a mysterious man whom they know as Saul Repnin. Their choice is an unnamed planet in EN-7031