Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-12-11
Identity Is Lost and They Here
after VIII be Known Merely
As ConvictS Nos, 25,314 and
25,3t5,
BROTHERS WILL OCCUPY
ONE CELL TOGETHER
Trying Ordeal Incident to Being
Measured and Photographed
Had No Visible Effect on the
Prisoners,

Prisoners,
IBy Morning journal Special LEASED wlre.l
san Quentin. Cal, Dee. 10.-The
Mcnamara brothers today entered
San quentin penitentiary where
James b. is condemned to spend the
remainder of his life for his CONFESS
ed crime Of murder and John j., sec
retary- treasurer of the International
Association Of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers is sentenced to fifteen
years imprisonment for dynamiting.
II was James b. who blew up the Los
Angeles Times building October l.
1910. with the loss of twenty-One
lives. and John j., who abette0 In
wrecking part of the Llewellyn Iron
Works in Los Angeles the following
Christmas day. The pleas oil guilty
entered by these men, closed these
two cases and opened up a nation
wide investigation, including probes
by two federal grand juries, into
series Of dynamiting reaching 1ifom
coast to coast and perpetrated gener-
ally where labor differences existed,
to a marked degree
The men entered the prison IL is
fairly authenticated, believing that
they had achieved much for the cause
of union labor. and had been cruelN
misunderstood in their efforts, and
the results they obtained.
John j. Mcnamara, those who have
talked with him for many hours say,
donned his convict garD a devoted adj
mirer of ifos little, simple, kindly
deeds and a firm believer IN the
psychological efficacy Of dynamite.
James b. habitualy believes a
good deal as his brother believes. For
themselvs the mea would say noth
ing at all.
Whirled from Los Angeles on a fast
night train, the men were taken from
il as sunrise today, put on little riv-
er steamer and landed two hours and
a half later at san Quentin prison, on
the shores of san Pablo bay. the
shackles which bound them together
on the boat trip were slipped off and
they tOiled up the prison hill beside
Sheriff Hammill of Los Angeles
county, walking as free men, AS the
prison clock struck 10, John ]. Me-
Namara proceeded by Warden John
4oyle. stepped over the threshold Of
the Jail door. with his brother di-
reetly behind him.
In five minutes James b. McNa-
mara had become Convict No. 25.314.
and John J. Mcnamara Convict No.
g5,315.
They were measured for Jail
clothing photographed in two posi-
tions, given carbOlic tinctured bath,
put into stripes, shaved and cropped,
and photographed within an hour
and turned over to John Murry, lieu
tenant of the yard, who took them TO-
cell 8 in a stone tier looking out
over the PRISONS upper yard, great
flower garden. Cell rs adjons the
tier of cells in which condemned
murderers are kept and the balcony
outside Is cut off by a little gate.
Further down the row, toward tho
other end is the cell of Abraham
Ruei who is serving a fourteen-year
sentence Tor bribery in connection
with the so-called San Francisco
graft cases Ruef is in cell three. In
cell Of the tier is Henry Dalton,
for seventeen wears assessor of Ala
media county and recently convicted
Of accepting a bribe offered, accord
Ing to the evidence. by public SER
vice corporation at Dalton's solieita-
ton
Soon after the men entered the jail
the prison band began to play ana
continued until p. m.
AT o'clock Sunday dinner was
served. The McNamaras were fui r.
nished with a prison made dinner
card, done in three colors, and mark
ed san Quentin Grill" The prison
ers who devised 1t had taken occas-
SION to point out the attractions OF
the place.
Never since the opening in 1862
mas the San Quentin Grill enjoyed n
better reputation or greater patron
age than under the present manage
ment, wrote the wag in stripes.
There are at present over l,94O reg
u'ar boarders taking their meals at
the grill. The cuisine and service are
unsurpassed. Some of the boarders
return six, eight and even ten times
after trying other establishments.
The Location and climate are the fin
est In the world situated at the foot
OF Mount Tamalpas, basked in the
grand and glorious California sun
SHINE, famed by the breezes of san
Pablo bay, the grill is an ideal re-
SORT the year round"
list of house rules likewise JEST
ing, fills the back page.
The dinner the McNamaras ate
consisted of corned beef, brown
gravy, steamed potatoes, boiled beans
steWed dried fruit, coffee cake, bread
and coffee.
The brothers passed the rest Of the
Jay in their cells. Tomorrow they
VIII begin work in the jute mill, War
uen Hoyle said. but James b., on adj
vice of Sheriff Hammill. will be ex-
amined for tuberculosis, and if he
SHOWS symptoms of it will be given
other work.
half dozen passengers, craning
thelr necks from car windows. dis
covered today that they had travelled
al night with the McNamaras as
ualn companions. Scores more hac
walked through the combination OBJ
serVation and compartment car with
OUT a hint that the brothers wert
within reaching distance. At Gar.