ROYAL C CLINE
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Officer Rank: Correctional Officer
Memorial Panel: 15-E: 7
Department: Federal Bureau of Prisons
End of Watch: May 23, 1938
Cause: BEAT
Age: Unk
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Officer Cline was beaten to death with a hammer by three inmates who were attempting to escape from Alcatraz Prison in California. Following Officer Cline's murder the inmates attempted to take over a guard tower. The officer in the tower, Harold Stites, shot and killed one suspect. The other two were sentenced to life for Officer Cline's murder. Officer Stites was shot and killed in 1946 during another escape attempt.
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