Biography
Abraham L. Sugarman was from Mankato, Minnesota. Abraham L. Sugarman was convicted of "obstructing military service" and sentenced to three years in prison. The State Secretary of the Socialist Party, he served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from April 25, 1919, to November 22, 1920. Sugarman contracted pulmonary tuberculosis and a "psoas abscess" in prison. Although the abscess was "incised and drained through the right groin, " it was "still discharging" pus after the operation.
Footnote 6 identifies A. L. Sugarman as arrested on June 7, 1917 for allegedly obstructing the draft despite carrying a registration card. The article supplies no physical discharge date or complete detention duration. William R. Douglas, The Germans Would Court-Martial Me, Too: St. Paul’s World War I Socialist Draft Resisters, Minnesota History 55(7), Fall1997 pp286–301, original PDF page 5. Source: https://storage.googleapis.com/mnhs-org-support/mn_history_articles/55/v55i07p286-301.pdf#page=5
1920s date review: The September 1917 International Socialist Review reports the arrest of Minnesota Socialist Party secretary A. L. Sugarman on a war-obstruction charge. The arrest is entered at year precision only; the issue date is not treated as an arrest day. A separate June 1917 draft-registration encounter has not been substituted for this prosecution. Existing 1919 prison-entry and 1920 release dates are unchanged. International Socialist Review, September 1917, printed page 188.
