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Page 2 identifies Arthur Blair as severely beaten and arrested in the July 26, 1935 Bremen anti-Nazi demonstration. He and Edward Drolette were held in Bellevue Hospital prison ward, where defense lawyer David Levinson visited them July 29 after being retained. The report says both were recovering; it supplies no release, disposition or exact total custody. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n181-NAT-jul-30-1935-DW-Q.pdf
Pages 1–2 report the August 7 West Side Court proceedings: existing felonious-assault charges and a prosecutor’s request for an unlawful-assemblage complaint alleging a plan to board the Bremen and remove the swastika. Attorneys Joseph Tauber and Edward Kuntz protested, and no additional bail was set. The cases were adjourned until August 14, without a verdict or established discharge. The five appearing defendants are distinguished from hospitalized Edward Drolette and separately charged station protesters. Page 4 announces the five as future cruise guests; that announcement alone supplies no release date. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n189-NAT-aug-08-1935-DW-Q.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 527. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
Daily Worker, August 8, 1935; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
