The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-01
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was permitted to get on or on
throughout the trip.
Some OF the prisoners carried their
Joking attitudes up to and even inside
1.-The prison walls.
Red smythe Of Peoria, said he
was going to demand his nitroglycer-
Inc cans Of the district attorney when
he gets out of prison SO he can put
one on each end OF the mantel at his
Peoria homo.
Everyone ON the secret special
Icheered up at midnight and exchang.
ed New Years greetings.
A bit OF worry, none Of the thirty
three prisoners missed. was the sight
o. Ed Clark, their indicted associate
from Cincinnati. who pleaded gully
and was released on suspended sem
tence. standing near the Union sta
ton at indianapolis, smiling after the
prison special,
The special passed through the
home towns Of four of the defend.
ants. VIM. J Mccain and W. Bert
Brown 1--we at Kansas City, which was
passed about o'clock, and Paul J..
Morrin and John H. Barry live in st.
Louis, which was passed at s o'clock
last night
When some one remarked to Barry
he was passing through his home
town, he answered:
No, my former home. you mean"
AS the old year died, the prisoners
declared, almost to man, they would
be model prisoners.
Frank NJ Ryan said his New Year
resolution was the golden rule. When
told Bernhard of Cincinnati had re-
solved to write no more letters, he
said, poor Bernhardt and many of
the others are purely victims OF cir
cumstances."
E. A. Clancy Of San Francisco, had
a slight attack of heart trouble dur
ing the night. but was fully recovered
today.
In Three Minutes.
FORT LEAvENWORTH, Kans. Jan.
Three minutes after the "dyna-
mite special" the moving prison Of
thirty-three labor union officials for
twenty hours, pulled up at the gates
of the government penitentiary today,
all of the convicted dynamite conspira-
tors had ceased to be American citi-
zens and became numbered prisoners.
Tears were on the cheeks OF every
man who marchd through the iron
gates into the prison.
The faces OF all Of the prisoners
we're haggard and waxy as they stepped
from the train. All Of them had seen
the huge pile OF stone from far down
the railroad track, as the train APP
preached the end of its journey. The
half testing manners that some of the
more cheerful had retained through
out the trail and the trip from In
disappeared and gave
place to solemnity. One or two OF the
prisoners attempted a smile, and .Big
Red" Smythe of Peoria made one of
his characteristic witty remarks, but
It received no responsive laugh.
Early morning haze was fading up
ward into the sunbeams that slanted
down across the gray prison walls
and glinted In opal and blood red
-ints on the cold, CLASSY flows OF the
river as, one by one, the
men stepped with part
ing look at this riot of color in the
great outdoors. into their prison
home.
Frank NJ. Ryan was the most brok-
IN man Of them all as he faced the
prison door His step was halt. his
Eye dull, his hair almost entirely |
yray and his flesh wore a deathly |
,olor
Frank K. Painter OF Omaha did not /
appear the same man as he looked
When the trial began. His face was
elbow and his big gray eyes were
unken and heavily ringed. i
As the big prison doomed into view
Olaf Tveitmoe leaned forward in his
eat and peered long and intently at +
ne big stone pile and a look of sad
.ess crossed his big face as he con-
emplated his diciplined home for the
ext six years.
When Tveitmoe was searched he
rev from his pocket and begged to
e allowed to keep Latin and Eng.
sh copy of Omar Khayam, bound in I
Gather and inscribed by Anton Jo-
annsen, labor associate OF his who
under indictment in California.
barged with conspiracy. The men
ere searched by TRUSTEES before the
equity warden. They were permitted +
keep cigars, but no cigarettes. Mike
Dung reluctantly gave up his rosary
cum OF Minneapolis cried like a /,
ably when being searched.
The men were taken one by one he.
re the deputy warden, given an OBJ
'rtunity to put everything off his