The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01
|, DOORS CLOSED
! BEHIND Them
All the Dynamiters Sentenced
TO Prison at Indianapolis
Are Placed in Federal Peniten-
tiary at LeavenwOrth.
THEIR TRAIN RUNS INSIDE
First View Interior Is From
the Car Windows.
Were Allowed to Send New
Year Greetings Home.


dianapolis for completely in the NC
Namara dynamite plots arrived at th'
federal prison here at 7:15 a. m. to-
dav. Thev mediately were photo
gra aphed, dressed in pen1tentlarA
i, clothes and formally enrolled as con
viets.
AS Frank M. Ryan, president of the
Iron Workers international union union
who was sentenced to seven years
Olaf A Tveitmoe, the PACING coast ID
Dor leader; Herbert ). Hocklli' 'ollA
T. Butler. and the others VINO re
ceived sentences varying from sly
years to one year and one day steppSC
from the special train whlch prous
them from Indianapolis they were @ @tdh-
en- in charge by the prison authorities
New Years day thus found the 81
%labor leaders beginning in the federa
Il enitentfary their punishment toI M
HEIR connection with crimes 1oI
k,nfessed dynamiters, are SERVING
i rms in the state prison at San
Rusbed from the scene of the his
torfcal trial at Indianapolis IN spe5
cial train which was barricaded anu
under guard, the prisoners were taken
bv rail directly into the prison
grounds.
In Prison Garb.
Their first view of the interior was
from the WINDOWS OIL lile Iiehhl
in an hour after the arrival each prls-
oner had been subjected to a ha1r cul
and had been garbed in the prison UNI
FORM ON account of its pelhs M Mho1i
day, the details of assigning the men
70 work was delayed until tomorrow
Most of the new prisoners are IRON
workers and it is understood the wal Waru- u
en- is to put, them on the constructIoii
of Suildings. Tyeitmoe, VINO Is 5 secIes e
ta,-v of the California Building 1raues
council is the only one of the con-
virted men not affiliated with the IRON
workers. union and it is expected ne
viii be given clerical work Ryan
president of the Iron workers l'9l,s unioIi,
I,,av he given similar work because
nj his age and his apparent collapsed
II was a memorable trip which
brought the prisoners over the oto nllles
from Indianapolis on New Years eve
once started, United States Marshal
Edward Schmidt in charge OF the prls-
oners decided not to reach LeaVen-
worth before daylight, so that almost
so hours were passed on the tram
Tho train was guarded at windows
,d doors as a rolling adjunt of the
nrison all the curtains being drawn
and no one being permitted to give out
at the railway stations any Woru as 10
t1a happenings within The trip across
Indiana, Illinois, missouri ana IIilo
kansas was to have been kept secret
bI1t at every station crowds greeted the
train as the dynamiters' special and
cneers and singing at midnight showed
the disposition of the prisoners toWal q
new year which for them was to De-
in with imprisonment. Al Inlon1s,se aIs,.l
-vhile passing Jefferson City, Mo-, Mar
shall schmidt passed around coffee Whlch
ae drunk from tin cups Each pr1S-
,ner was permitted at that time TO
.-,ite out a New Years message to his
family. .,..
psvond that outburst of cheer it was
q long monotonous ride for the con-
victeI men, each of whom was required
to sit throughout the night face to face
with an armed guard.
frank ]. Higgins of Boston, former
cSew England organizer for the iron
workers union, became unconscious on
+bor train and was placed in a physi-
o;a1,s care He is sentenced to two
years. .-.,,s
II was found that Ryan, aged % years.
tba oldest. and Fred Sherman, aged
% is the youngest. Ryan is the only
nrisoner sentenced to term as long
as seven years, while sherman IS SEN
fenced to two years
charles wachtmeister of Detroit.
LIN eight children, has the largest
fpiIv- He is sentenced to two years
Ilmost the first question asked pS
rr,-eitnoe- on entering the prison was
about the library
4 Among the treasures which INeltHoe
.sTed to be allowed to retain was a
,,onl of Latin poetry inscribed by An
N Iohannsen, another San FRANCISCO
,aso,. leader, who has been indicted in
Les Angeles , - 70
,;,1l,,ish any of his labor union affilla-
IONS on the Pacific coast, Tveitmoe
,.enlied. absolutely none
Naar Kansas City the prison train
sSAd wi hin sight of the railroad
t[;dae across the Missouri river which
ortie McAianigal confessed he blew
Came in at Sunrise.
IT Ind not long been daylight when
+be trim pulled into the penitentiary
ard The prisoners last view of the
outside was placid expanse of the
NissouEi river on the surface of which
was rnArored the golden glow of
I,riiliant sunrise.
From the train. within the prison
cafes thu prisoners We're called forth
a1nha betieally and stood two abreast
aReddinSand Ryan, read the United
states marshal "Cool,y and Clancy
or ..Reum and Butler
%Tt was the last time the men We're to
~ called by name
NThereafter Ryan, the head of a union
"a II 900 members: William e. RedtIin.
Milwaukee an iron workers business
Dent who stood behind, Philip A
e5oIey of New Orleans. Eugene a.
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