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In [[Robot universe#1946|1946]], inmate number 548, [[Joseph Cretzer|Joseph 'Dutch' Cretzer]], led a mutiny with five other men. Two warders were killed, but Cretzer's plan was to treat them as living hostages to exchange for their freedom. Military troops were brought in as reinforcements; after Warden Johnston commented his belief the hostages to be dead, the troops breached the criminals' stronghold. Cretzer and two of his cohorts, [[Coy]] and [[Hubbard]], were shot dead during the assault.
The surviving mutineers were tried, their lawyers paid for by donations from fellow prisoners. After a unanimous guilty verdict, [[Judge Goodman]] sentenced [[Shockley]] and [[Thompson]] to death in the gas chamber, and life imprisonment for [[Carnes]], a Native American
In [[Robot universe#1963|1963]], the high council of the penitentiary administration decided that, between the prisoners and the families of warders living on the island, the upkeep of Alcatraz was financially untenable. By the 15th of May that year, the [[A2 1041|last prisoners on Alcatraz]] were transferred elsewhere. Despite plans, the buildings were left unoccupied.
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