Biography
Car Gerulla of Nokomis, Illinois, was individually named among ten leaders arrested June 3, 1934 during the Montgomery County campaign against restrictions on assembly, speech, strikes and picketing. The June 4 dispatch reports an accusation of plotting to overthrow the government and protests against a proposed secret hearing. It supplies no individual release, final verdict or actual custody total. The printed name is retained without an invented expansion or alias. Daily Worker, June 5, 1934, page 3. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n134-jun-05-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
The individually ordered Hillsboro Eleven photograph in the June 28 issue captions this Nokomis defendant as Carl Gerulla, seated first from the left. This supplies the missing final letter in the earlier printed Car spelling and identifies an authentic portrait. The adjoining collective hunger-strike report says nine of eleven ended six days without food on Saturday June 23 after a doctor’s warning; it does not individually specify which nine and is not used to assign every defendant a measured fast. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n154-jun-28-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
The Journal-News retrospective of July 1, 2019, printed page 7A, names this person among fourteen arrested Hillsboro defendants and describes the January 7, 1935 negotiated disposition: all fourteen stipulated to guilt on the lesser charge of conspiracy to do an illegal act and were placed on nine months of parole. The original Illinois 1919 syndicalism indictment alleged advocacy of violence by speech and writing, without charging specific violent acts. George Hall prosecuted; Judge Paul McWilliams heard the December 1934 proceedings after transfer from T. M. Jett. Pretrial bail must be distinguished from the January parole disposition, which does not itself prove uninterrupted jail custody through January 7. The retrospective summarizes the arrests as June 1934; existing individual May/August chronologies are not overwritten. Source: https://cdn1.creativecirclemedia.com/journalnews/files/20190630-202614-HJN%207-1-19.pdf#page=7
