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Clarence W. Waldron

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:Vermont
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year
Support
Anti-War
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Biography

Clarence W. Waldron was a Pentecostal preacher from Windsor, Vermont. Clarence W. Waldron was convicted in part for distributing a pamphlet entitled "The Word of the Cross" and in part for stating that "A Christian ought not and should not fight." He received a fifteen-year prison sentence and served in Atlanta Penitentiary from April 1, 1918, until his sentence was commuted on April 1, 1919. Waldron had one child.

The Los Angeles account names Sklar and Waldron as defendants who represented themselves in the trial running April 3–14 following the March 6 arrests. Defendants returned to jail pending $1,000 appeal bail. The article gives a group distribution of sentences, without identifying each defendant’s term; no individual term is assigned from that distribution. Daily Worker, May 12, 1930, page 4. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v06-n368-NY-may-12-1930-DW-LOC.pdf

Case

Charges: Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918
Incarcerated: Apr 1, 1918
Released: Apr 1, 1919
Sentence: 15 years.