Arizona republican., 1911-12-11
Murderous Dynamiters Are Safely Behind the Walls of Grim San Quentin, Which They Reached Yesterday.
ACCEPT FATE
 WITH STOICISM
Both Are Apparently Con vinced That They Served Well the Cause of Labor and Believe They Are Misjudged.

SAN QUENTIN, Dec. 10-The Me prison. James B. to spend the remain der of his life as a confessed murderer, and John J. to stay fifteen years. The
 men entered the penitentiary believing ! they achieved much for tine cause of 1 labor, and are cruelty misunderstood i ih their efforts and the results they | obtained. Whirled from Los Angeles i on a fast night train, the men were taken from it at sunrise today. placed aboard a river steamer and landed two and a half hours later at the San Quentin prison wharf. Shaclles that bound them together were slipped off and they toiled up the hill beside Sheriff Hammel of Los Angeles coun- ! ty. walking as free men. As the clock struck ten. John J.. preceded by War den HOyie. stepped over the threshold and J. B. followed. Five minutes later James E. became convict 25.3l4 and John J. 25,315 They were measured for jail clothing. photographed in two positions. given a carbOlic tinctured bath. put into stripes. shaved. cropped and raphotographed within an hour.
 They were taken to cell AIS. in a stone tier looking out over the prisons upper yard" great flower garden. The cell adjoins the tier of cells in which condemned murderers are kept. Fur ther down the row is the cell of Abe Ruef, serving fourteen years for brib- cry in connection with the san Fran cisco graft cases. Cell II in the tier belongs to Henry Dalton. for seven teen years assessor of Alameda coun- l ", recently convicted of accepting brbe offered by q public service cor poration. Soon after the McNamaras entered the jail the prison band played 1 and continued until l o'clock. At } l o'clock the Sunday dinner was served. ]
 The McNamaras were furnished with 1 a prison made dinner card. done in | three colors and marked san Quentin I Grill"
 The prisoners. who devised it, had l taken occasion to point out the at | fractions of the place. It has a list !! of house rules, and likewise testing ! illlS the back page.
 The first dinner consisted of corn l beef. brown gravy steamed potatoes, l boiled beans. stewed dried fruit. coffee | cake. bread and coffee.
 The brothers passed the rest of the | day in their cells. Tomorrow they will | begin work in the jute mill. Warden l Hoyle said, but J. R.. on the advice | of Sheriff Hammell. will be examined | for tuberculosis. and if he shows | given other work.
 A half dozen passengers. craning | their necks from the car windows. dis | covered they had travelled all night | with the McNamaras as train com panions. Scores more walked through | the combination observation cOmpart- | ment car without hint the brothers | were within reaching distance. At | Carquinese Straits the men were taken | aboard the little steamer Caroline. For | most of the trip the men stood hand | cuffed together on the after deck. The | sheriff pointed out the points of in
 terest but elicited no comment from | the men.
 The sight of the penitentiary failed | to move them. and when they passed l the giant powder works. where J. B. | bought dynamite for the bombs he | placed under the home of Gen. liar | rison Gray Otis. proprietor of the | Times. and Felix Zechandelar. secre tary of the Merchants and Manufac turers association of Los Angeles. the ! brothers backs happened to be turned | that way, Although the men were | silent as images today John J. lay | in his stateroom berth last night and | talked for half an hour with Deputy | Sheriff James Gathers. to whom he took great liking during his inn prisonment. To Gathers he showed a pair of plain gold cuff links. "One | of my brothers gave me those" he | said "I value them more than any thing It seems to me lfe's little kind nesses are the things which we do value for the effort or intent behind 1 them. and they should mean more to us" When searched at the peniten tiary. he said. "I don't care about the other things but please be sure and save these for me-
 The McNamaras' first sight of their prison comrades might have occurred as the Caroline came toward the bluff on which the prison stands. but it is said the men in gray watch ing the approach of the steamer were not observed. Two prisoners standing at the door of the prison stables drove home to the McNamaras the 1