Biography
Aurora Samson was a waitress and supporter of the Colorado coal miners’ strike. A Lafayette dispatch dated December 11 in the December 12, 1927 Daily Worker reports that she had been held in jail for three weeks without a charge. The article cites a Denver Sunday News editorial criticizing her treatment. This establishes actual extended detention reported as ongoing, not a completed three-week sentence or a known final custody total. Her exact arrest, admission and release dates and later outcome are not supplied.
A Lafayette, Colorado dispatch dated December 11 in the December 12, 1927 Daily Worker identifies Aurora Samson as a waitress and strike sympathizer held in jail for three weeks without a charge. It refers to a Denver Sunday News editorial on habeas corpus comparing her treatment with that of Senator Frank L. Smith. This account supports actual extended confinement connected with the coal strike. It does not name her jail, print an arrest or admission day, or establish her release. The three weeks describe confinement already endured while the report still presents her as jailed; they are not an imposed term, a completed custody episode or a reconstructed twenty-one-day total. No date is backcalculated from that approximate period.
Daily Worker, December 12, 1927, original page 1, Militia Raiding Homes; Arrest Colo. Miners.
