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Arthur Boose

Released
Date of birth:12. 03. 1878
Date of death:1959
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#13150
State:Wisconsin
Time Imprisoned:
4 Years 8 Months
Support
Anti-War Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Arthur Boose

Biography

Arthur Boose was an IWW organizer from Abbotsford, Wisconsin. Arthur Boose was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to five years in prison and fined $30,000. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from September 1917 to May 14, 1922, when his sentence expired.

The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly prisoner roster, under the printed name BOOSE , ARTHUR, reports: Federal . Indicted Chicago , Sept. 28 , 1917. Conspiracy to violate Sections 6 , 19 and 37 and Section 4 of Espionage Act . Convicted , 5 year sentence , $ 5,000 bond . Leavenworth Federal prison. This is the contemporary labor organization’s account. Indictment, bail and imposed sentence are distinguished from physical admission, actual release and complete time served; no missing custody endpoint is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v02n03-mar-1920_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=7

The March1922 official report lists Arthur Boose in List1 of convicted prisoners or parolees. The government entry reports Conspiracy and violating the espionage act, ete. a sentence of August 30, 1918, 5 years, Leavenworth; fined $30,000.. Imposed terms, projected term-expiration dates, parole eligibility and intervals on bond are different measures; none is entered as a complete actual custody total. This attributed government entry is retained alongside the independently established individual chronology. [PDF4]

Government Prosecutions under the Espionage Act, Senate Document159 (March1922), PDF page 4.

Case

United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth
Charges: Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918
Incarcerated: September 1917
Released: May 14, 1922
Sentence: Five years in prison (Espionage/Sedition Act conviction).
Institution State: Kansas