Biography
Charles White was a Western Worker salesman arrested in San Francisco after an armed confrontation on November 24, 1934. The newspaper reported that a man attacked White with a gun, that White took the gun while defending himself, and that police then arrested him. White was held under $5,000 bail on robbery-with-a-deadly-weapon, vagrancy and resisting-an-officer charges; a physician documented serious injuries.
Sources and evidence limits
Exact release, later verdict and time served are unknown. The separate OctoberJeffersonPark item with the same name is not merged without a bridge.
Historical claims are attributed to the contemporary newspaper. No present-day custody status, demographic classification or precise date is inferred.
The November 26 dispatch reports $5,000 bail set by Judge O’Brien and charges of assault with a deadly weapon, vagrancy and resisting an officer. Dr. Quin’s November 25 affidavit describes injuries and fever after a police beating; these are attributed observations. PDF page 21 describes the preceding Saturday’s Mission Street arrest. PDF pages 14 and 16 separately name White in an earlier Jefferson Park meeting prosecution, scheduled for December 4 trial.
