“Mr. [Pierpont] Morgan has more than once expressed the opinion that certain people would be still living had they maintained their activities, and that as soon as a man stops work, he starts digging his grave.”

Years later, a partner who earlier doubted Jack’s abilities would say,

he was a great gentleman, a cultured gentleman . . . He was a simple and just as sweet a man as you ever saw . . . never given credit, because he was shy . . . He wasn’t a buccaneer like his father, but he was a hell of a guy.

. Tunney would later write an account of the events: “This Pearce-Lester-Holt-Henderson-Muenter was becoming more interesting every minute. Wife-poisoner, dynamiter, gunman—what next?”