Biography
Mrs. Tim was a Black Brooklyn woman arrested while seven months pregnant. The Daily Worker, August 23, 1934, page 2 reports testimony that a policeman assaulted her and accused her of disorderly conduct to cover the attack. Magistrate O’Dwyer convicted her in Pennsylvania Avenue court on August 22, 1934, and suspended sentence. The account’s allegations remain attributed to the paper and witnesses. Her first name, arrest day and duration of any detention were not supplied.
Page 2 identifies the pregnant Brooklyn defendant as Mrs. Claudine Tim, also printing Tims once, and dates her arrest and alleged beating by Patrolman Henry Werner, shield 16235, to April 20, 1934 outside Prospect Market. It reports her free on $500 bail and announces an assault-on-an-officer hearing for Monday. This fills the formerly unknown given name and arrest day in the existing Brooklyn case. The early assault accusation and later disorderly-conduct conviction are preserved as different stages of the prosecution, not duplicate cases or an invented served sentence. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n186-aug-04-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
Page 3 prints Mrs. Tim and announces postponement of the pregnant Black Brooklyn defendant’s trial to Monday morning, August 20, at Pennsylvania Avenue court. The item attributes the prosecution to a policeman’s alleged assault on her. This is a scheduled-hearing announcement; it does not replace the separately documented August 22 conviction, establish another arrest or supply an actual release. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n190-aug-09-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
Page 3 prints Mrs. Tims and calls for workers to attend the Brooklyn Pennsylvania Avenue court on the following Monday for her assault prosecution. It attributes her arrest to Patrolman Henry Werner after allegedly beating the pregnant Black woman at Prospect Place Market. The report says Magistrate Alpern refused to try the case August 6 because workers' presence supposedly intimidated the court. This supplies an earlier postponed hearing and defense mobilization; it does not replace the later August 22 disorderly-conduct disposition. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n198-aug-18-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
Page 2 prints Mrs. Tims and describes a May 10 Brooklyn protest of 400 Black and white workers against her alleged beating and arrest by a policeman. It announces her assault hearing at Liberty Avenue court for May 17. This is an earlier defense mobilization and projected hearing in the existing Prospect Market case, not a completed May 17 adjudication or new arrest. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n114-may-12-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
Daily Worker, August 4, 1934; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
Daily Worker, August 9, 1934; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
Daily Worker, August 18, 1934; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
Daily Worker, May 12, 1934; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
