Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1918 — CONVICTED I. W. W.S REACH PENITENTIARY [ARTICLE]

CONVICTED I. W. W.S REACH PENITENTIARY

William D. Haywood, secretary of the Industrial Workers of the World, and ninety-two other members of the organization, (convicted in Chicago on charges of violating the espionage act, have arrived at the Federal penitentiary at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. The trip, which was made by special train from Chicago, was without incident, and on their arrival in the prison yard, the ninety-two prisoners left the coaches, formed in line and marched into the penitentiary building. After the formalities the prisoners were assigned to ceils. Haywood, chewing gum and apparently at ease, declared the recent bomb explosion rh Chicago was unfortunate and inopportune for the men under sentence and that because of the occurrence they had been hurried to prison.