Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-01-02
WRECKERS BEGIN
TERMS IN PRISON
At LEAv[NWORTH
''Dynamiters' Special" Reaches
Federal Penitentiary After
All Night Run From
Indiana.
COMVlCTs ARE ENROLLED
Iron Workers Will Follow Their
Trade-Prisoners Greet New
Year With Songs and
Cheer.
coMvlcTs ARE ENROLLED


I.cavenworth, Kan. Jan. . The ss
labor union officials sentenced at In
dianapois for completely in the Nc
Namara dynamite plots. arrived at the
federal prison here ut T.15 a. m, We'd
nesday. They Immediately We're photo
graphed. dressed in penitentiary clothes
and formally enrolled as conNicts.
AS Frank NJ RYAN, president OF the
Iron Workers international Union, who
WAS sentenced tn seven years olaf A.
'rveitmoc the Pacific coast labor lead
er Herbert S. Hockin John Il. Butler
and the others who received sentences
varying from six Years To one year and
one day. stepped from the special train
which brought them from indianapolis
they We're taken in charge by the prls-
on authorities
No Happy New Year
New Year's day thus found the 80
labor leaders beginning in the federal
penitcntiarS here punishment for their
connection with crimes for which the
McNalnara brothers. confessed dyna-
mitcrs. are serving terms in the state
penitentiary III san Quinten. Cal.
Rushed from the scene of the historic
trial in Indianapolis in a special train
which was barricaded and under
guard. the prisoners were taken by rail
directly into the prison grounds. Their
first view of the interior was from the
windows of the train.
Within AN hour after the arrival
each prisoner had been subjected to a
llair cat and had been garbed in the
prison uniform. On account OF its be-
ing holiday the details of assigning
the men to work Was delayed until
tomorrow. Most of the new prisoners
are iron workers and 1t is understood
sls5J garden ts IN pat f!tcts stsst hef cen
a tenTti6n bf buildings. teS
Ryan in Bad State.
Tveitmoe who is secretary of the
California Building Trades council is
the only one of the convicted men not
affiliated with the iron workers union
and it is expected that he will be given
clerical work. Ryan. president of the
iron workers union. may be given
similar work because of his age and his
apparent collapsed condition.
IL Was memorable trip which
brought the prisoners over the SO
miles from Indianapolis ON New Years
eve. Once started United States
Marshal ladward Schmidt i'm charge
| of the prisoners, decided not to reach
| Le:,Nenworth before daylight so that
| almost 20 hours We're passed on the
| train The train Was guarded at win
| dows and doors AS a rolling adjunct
| of the penitentiary. all the curtains
| being drawn and no one being per-
,' t;ame. nv isn,. .,s 10 tha ha,ns,i,.r.
r.i4%i,
Prisoners Send Greetings.
\ The trip across Indiana. Illinois,
Mlssourl ana my" Kansas was TO nave
pee.'i htp. secret. T.. p'!t ~ every statlon
rroMus sreelea we lrain avs the dNn-
| Ahlters specia,. ana cheers ana sing
l inS q. iuihhi5i. SA"Meu 'he "lslosi-
| tion OF the prisoners toward y new
| !e"f Wi'iIh Il aor llfeh' VAS 10 pesih WIN
passing ''eiiefs"h 'lly MO. Marsnai
| nehiiiet PASS" "lo''hu coIIee Whleh
M,s o.a.N r,i,ta % l ~, ,, .1af .i,, PITS
| write out New Wear messaees tn
| members of tbei, families
Beyond that outburst of cheer it was
| !, long nonoYonous ride for tba cnn
| vict.d men ea,h of whom was reu,,ired
| to sit throughout the night face To fa,.e
| with a, armed guard
| Frank j. Higgins Boston former
| New England organizer for the iron
| workers union became unconscious
| on the train lnd was placed in a phv
sican.s care. He is sentenced to serve
| two wears.
| When the prisoners were Registered
| i, was found that Ryan. aged 5S wears
Was the oldest and Frederick sherman
| aged 2S is the Youngest T,van is th.,
| only prisoner sentenced ia a term as
| long AS seven wears while sherman 10
sentenced to two wears.
| Charles Wachtmeister Detroit with
eight children. has the largest family
He is sentenced to two years.
\ Near Kansas CITY the prison train
passed within the sight of the raiIroa,i
\ bridge across the Missouri river whicI,
| Ortie +. McManigal confessed hc blew
| mn II had not long been daylipht
when the train pulled into the peni-