Biography
Alphonse Buyle, described as one of the Modesto labor defendants, was held at Marin County Jail while awaiting sentence on a charge of stealing dynamite. The January 10, 1937 San Rafael dispatch reports that he and John Rodger were denied probation and sentenced to one to fifteen years. Buyle had been allowed to visit his invalid wife from jail. An appeal was planned, not decided. The article gives no exact initial arrest, physical release or complete custody duration. Daily Worker, January 11, 1937, original PDF page 5. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1937/v14-n009-jan-11-1937-DW-Q.pdf#page=5
The holiday column identifies Alphonse Buyle as a San Francisco longshoreman among the prisoners at San Quentin. This supplies a later institution for his existing Marin County dynamite prosecution; it does not date the transfer or physical release.
Page2’s prisoner address list places this person at San Quentin, prisoner number 59738. This is contemporary location and correspondence evidence, not a new sentence or exact transfer date.
The Stanfield release notice says Ciambrelli and Buyle were the two Modesto-associated defendants still to be freed. This confirms ongoing confinement by the October13 issue; it supplies neither a new sentence nor an exact later discharge.
The March 11, 1937 Voice of the Federation reproduces a San Francisco Labor Council resolution stating that a California Assembly committee completed its Modesto investigation hearing on February 27. The resolution attributes the convictions to perjured testimony from James Scrudder, a Standard Oil agent, and asks Governor Frank F. Merriam to pardon Robert J. Fitzgerald, Reuel Stanfield, Victor Johnson, John Souza, Patsy Ciambrelli, Henry Silva and John Burrows. It separately seeks leniency for John Rodger and Alphonse Buyle, alleging entrapment. These are the union resolution’s findings and demands following a legislative investigation, not a judicial reversal, granted pardon or new physical discharge. The newspaper’s description of seven men as cleared does not establish that their convictions were vacated.
Z. R. Brown identifies Alphonse Buyle as still at San Quentin and says he will be handed to immigration officials for deportation on February13,1939. This is a future forecast, not a completed physical release, actual deportation or beginning of exile. The report establishes continued San Quentin imprisonment by publication without supplying an initial admission or final discharge day.
