Bisbee daily review., 1914-09-25
CHAPTER W. No. 6O.1oS.


 Montgomery six were sent to " Sing Sing, while the others
 went to Clinton and Auburn. The six Sing Sing men were manacled in couples, but as Montgomery was a "lifer" additional precaudon against attempted escape was taken by hand cuihng him to a guard as well as to his prison mate. There were three links in the chain of humanity and steel
 Montgomery found that the prisoner locked to bis right wrist was heavy, long armed man with the preparations jaw who had sworn heartily and bit terly the morning Of the lineup at pc lice headquarters.
 The six men and their guards piled into an automobile van in front of the pombs on Center street. Above the changing of the gong of the machine and the heavy roar of vehicular traffic as they were taken toward the Grand Central station Montgomery could hear the man beside him keeping up a low growl, as of a beast dreaming of bat tie Had be known the length of this mans sentence he might have enyied him. for he was to serve only fifteen years. His oflense was burglary.
 They boarded a train for Ossining at the Grand Central station.
 At Tarrytown. where the electric zone ended. the train was delayed while an engine was coupled to the coaches Here the tracks run on the very edge of the Hudson, the river splashing the ties during high winds from the west.
 Across the river Montgomery could see pretty cluster of houses half hid den in the trees # was the village of Eyack. Just over the skyline and be- yond the last peaked roof was a cot tage standing back from the broad au- tOmObile road which leads to Tuxedo. Within that cottage was the little mother with the faded eyes and tho heart that had turned to lead in the criminal courts building iu New York. His eyes peered hungrily through the coach window. He bad written to her from the Tombs. It was a brave letter of determination to some day prove to the world that he was innocent of the crime Of which he bad been convicted. He advised her to cast about for bOarder so that she could keep the taxes paid on the home His father had been a Mason in good standing, and the Masons had helped her before. They would help their dead brothers widow again, he told her.
 The boy pressed his forehead against the window pane and feasted bis eyes for the last time on the heavily wood ed farther shore.
 One Of the strongest swimmers among the sturdy country boys about Nyack, he had swum the river. a good three and a half miles, more than once, and this scene in all it's simple loveliness was old, and sweety old, to his young eyes The train paused at Scarborough and was off again in less than a minute. Suddenly the eyes of the boy at the window encountered total darkness and to his ears came the din of rail road tunnel The short tunnel was di- rectly under the entrance to Sing Sing prison In a few seconds the train cleared the tunnel and stopped at Os- sinlng station.
 A covered tumbril was ready to take them up the steep road from the sta ton to the highway running south and to the prison. The team of horses struggled upward stralning and pant ing, and, reaching the highway. stop ped to blow. The convicted men had few more precious moments in which they could feast their eyes with glimpses Of sky, river and hills through the open front and rear of the vehicle.
 At the end Of the road loomed a bar. rack-like building of gray stone. fast blackening with the years. 1t was the first of the prison structures and about it ran a high and wide wall Al regular intervals upon this wall were little octagonal sentry houses and fin each of these stood a man with a rife The building. rising high above the wall, had narrow sits in it's sheer stone sides. and these slits were criss crossed with steel bars.
 Within this structure cell awaited Montgomery. IL would be his resting place at night after the days work ir the shops of the walled city of silence gorrow sweat and ceibacy. Of the out eide world he would see only patch of sky squared by the steel bars. n, would be as the police thought a yegg nan should be-buried alive.
 James Montgomery was stripped of his clothes and finally stripped Of hll name. Both were thrown away. H' became No. OO.1O8
 He stood naked under the examina tion of the prison physician and wal then placed under a shower bath and washed clean Garments made by con victs were given him, ill Atting under wear, heavy shoes and a dull gray sui