Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1911-12-12

WILL WORK IN JUTE MILL
Noted Prisoners in Line Of Cells in
Which Dynamiters Will
Live.

San San quentin, Cal, Dec. IL.
The Mcnamara brothers yesterday
entered San Quentin penitentiary
where James B. is condemned to
spend the remainder of his life for
his crime Of murder, and where
John T., secretary OF the Interna-
tional Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, is sentenc-
ed to fifteen years Imprisonment for
Idynamiting. 4
It was James B. who blew up, the
Los Angeles Times building Oct. 1.
1910, with the loss of twenty-one
lives, and John j., who abetted in
wrecking part of the Llewellyn
Iron works in Los Angeles the fol-
lowing Christmas day.
The pleas Of guilty entered by the
men closed these two cases and
opened up nation wide investiga-
tion including probes by two feder-
al grand juries, into series of dyn-
amiting which reached from coast
to coast and perpetrated generally
where labor differences existed to a
marked degree.
The men enter the prison, it Is
fairly authenticated, believing that
they had achieved much for the
cause OF union labor and had been
cruelty misunderstood, III their eff
fort and the results they obtained.
John j. Mcnamara, those who have
talked with him for many hours
say, donned his convict garb de-
voted admirer of life's little simple
kindly deeds and firm believer in
the psychological efficiency of dyna-
mite. James B. habitually believes
a good deal as his brother believes.
For themselves, the men would say
nothing at all
Whirled from Los Angeles on a
fast night train, the men were taken
from 1t at sunrise yesterday, put on
a little river steamer and landed
two hours and a half later at San
Quentin prison wharf on the shores
of San Pablo bay. The shackles
which bound them together on the
boat trip were slipped of and they
toiled up the prison hill beside
Sheriff William A. Hammill Of Los
Angeles county.
AS the prison clock struck 10,
John ]. McNamara, preceded by
Warden John Hoyle. stepped over
the threshold OF the jail door with
his brother directly behind him.
In FIVE minutes James B. McNa-
mara had become convict 25,314
and John j. Mcnamara was No. 25,-
315. They were measured for Jail
clothing. photographed in two posi-
tions. given carbolc tinctured
bath. put into stripes. shaved and
cropped and rephotographed within
an hour and turned over to. John
Murray, lieutenant OF the yard. who
took them to cell 18 in a stone tier
looking. out over the prisoners "up-
per yard" great flower garden.
Cell lS adjoins the tier of cells
where condemned murderers are
kept and the balcony outside Is cut
OFF by little gate. Further down
the row, toward the other end, is
the cell OF Abraham Ruef, who is
serving fourteen-year sentence for
bribery in connection with the so
called San Francisco graft cases.
Ruef is in cell 3. In cell II of the
tier is Henry Dalton, for seventeen
years assessor of Alameda county
and recently convicted of accepting
bribe offered, according to the ev-
idence. by public service corpora
tion at Dalton's solitation.
At 9 o'clock Sunday dinner was
served. The dinner the McNamaras
ate consisted OF corn beef, brown
gravy, steamed potatoes, boiled
beans, stewed dried fruit, coffee
cake, bread and coffee.
The brothers passed the rest OF
the day in their cells.
Today they began work in the
jute mill. Warden Hoyle said, but
James B, on the advice of Sheriff
| Hammill, will be examined for tu'