Biography
Bert Kyler was from Sacramento. Bert Kyler received a three-year prison sentence for giving testimony in court on behalf of a fellow member of the IWW and served in San Quentin from August 28, 1923, to January 31, 1926. (See also the entry for J. A. Casdorf.)
The International Labor Defense holiday roster in the December 29, 1925 Daily Worker lists this prisoner, printed as Bert Kyler, at San Quentin California. Its printed identifier is 38307; this is a prison number or mailing designation, not a year or a custody date. This documents confinement at the roster’s reporting time, without establishing an admission, transfer, release, new conviction or complete duration. Existing independently sourced custody chronology remains separate. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1925/1925-ny/v02b-n297-NYE-dec-29-1925-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5
The June 14, 1922 report identifies the Casdorf–Firey defense witnesses as actually arrested after testimony and still held in jail despite a proposed$60,000 Liberty-bond bail offering. The May 23, 1923 LaRue opinion places the earlier trial in late March/early April 1922. This supplies pretrial custody within the already identified California prosecution, without replacing later prison-receipt dates or extending a specific penitentiary-service counter. Court source: https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5914a839add7b049346f983e Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Glendale_Daily_Press_1922-06-14_%28IA_cgl_001835%29.pdf#page=1
Date review: Arrested in 1922 after testifying in the Casdorf-Firey trial. The sources place the witness arrests in spring, without an individual exact day; year precision is used. This was a California criminal-syndicalism prosecution, not a federal Espionage Act case. Glendale Daily Press, June 14, 1922, page 1; People v. La Rue, 62 Cal.App. 276 (1923).
The February 26, 1924 Daily Worker political-prisoner roster individually prints Bert Kyler with historical prisoner number 38307. Its continued Walla Walla heading appears to run into California prisoners, while this individual’s existing record documents San Quentin. The printed identifier is transcribed; no transfer to Washington or institution change is inferred from that heading. This is a contemporary institutional identifier, not a federal BOP register number. No admission or release date, individual sentence length, actual duration, organizational membership or present status is inferred.
