Biography
Adam Moleski was one of the three progressive Pittston, Pennsylvania anthracite miners framed with Sam Bonita for the killing of Frank Agati, a gunman for district president Rinaldo Cappellini, during the 1927-28 anthracite union civil war — though, the defense insisted, he never fired a gun. He was held in the Wilkes-Barre county jail and prosecuted in the case the ILD's Labor Defender fought through 1928.
1920s arrest review: The February19 newspaper dispatch reports his rearrest the previous day, after an earlier release on recognizance as a material witness. February18 is the criminal-case rearrest, not the initial witness detention. The earlier custody and release days remain unknown.
Sources: Daily Worker, February20,1928, page2 (February19dispatch); Commonwealth v. Mendola,294Pa.353,144A.292 (1928). Existing portraits retained; missing release dates are not calculated from sentences.
The July15 report says Moleski was out on bail and expected to face trial in the September criminal-court term. The trial was prospective; this establishes interim freedom on bail, not acquittal or a completed sentence.
