Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-01
HAIR CUT AND IN UNIFORM
Because of New Year Assigning of
Work Postponed Until Tomorrow.
MESSAGES SENT TO FAMILIES
Coffee Passed Around on Train at
Midnight While Prisoners
Write Notes.

LEANENWORTH. Kan, January l.
The thirty-three labor union officers
sentenced at indianapolis for completely
in the Mcnamara dynamite plots ar
rived at the federal prison here at 1:15
o'clock today. They Immediately were
photographed, dressed in penitentiary
clothes and formally enrolled as con-
VictS.
AS Frank NJ. Ryan, president of the
International Ironworkers' Union; Olaf
\. Tveitmoe, the Pacific coast labor
leader; Herbert S. Hocllin, john L.
Butler and others stepped from the
special train which brought them from
indianapolis they were taken in charge
by the prison authorities.
New Year day thus found the labor
leaders beginning in the federal peni-
tentiary here punishments for their
connection with the crimes for which
the Mcnamara brothers, confessed
dynamiters, are serving terms in the
state prison at San Quentin, Cal.
Hair Cut and CARRIED.
The prisoners We're taken by rail di-
rectly into the prison grounds. Their
first view of the interior was from the
windows of the train. Within an hour
after arrival each prisoner had been sub
jected to hair cut and garbed in the
prison uniform.
On account of it's being a holiday, the
details of assigning the men to work was
delayed until tomorrow. Most or the new
prisoners are ironworkers. and 1t is un-
derstood the warden is to put them on
the construction of buildings. Tveitmoe
Is the only one of the convicted men not
affiliated with the ironworkers' union,
and it Is expected he will be given cleri-
cal work. Ryan may be given similar
work because of his age and his ap-
parent feeble condition.
1t was memorable trip which brought
the prisoners over the SO miles from In
dianapOlIs on New Year eve. Once start
schmidt decided not to reach Leaven-
worth before daylight. so that almost
twenty hours were passed on the train.
Train Closely Guarded.
The train was guarded at windows and
doors as a rolling adjunct of the peniten-
tiary, all the curtains being drawn and
no one being permitted to give out any
word as to the happenings within.
The trip across Indiana, Illinois. Mis-
souri, and into Kansas was to have been
kept secret, but at every station crowds
greeted the train as the 'dynamiters
special and cheers and singing at mid
night showed the disposition of the pris-
oners toward new year which for them
was to begin with Imprisonment.
At midnight, while passing Jefferson
City, Mo-, Marshal Schmidt passed
around coffee which was drunk from tin
cups. Each prisoner was permitted at
that time to write out New Year messages
to members of his family.
Beyond that outburst of cheers it was
a long. monOtonous ride for the men,
each Of whom was required to sit through
the night facing an armed guard.
Higgins Becomes Unconscious.
F. G. Higgins. Boston. former New
England, organizer for the ironworkers
union, became unconscious on the train
and was placed in a physicians care. He
is sentenced to serve two years.
When the prisoners We're registered it
was found that Ryan, aged fifty-eight
years. was the Oldest, and Fred Sherman,
aged twenty-eight years. is the youngest
Charles Wachtmeister, Detroit with
eight children. has the largest family
He is sentenced to two years.