Biography
Dan Agosti was among miners arrested and held without bail after the June 27, 1922 killing of John Majors near New Lafferty, Ohio. The February 17, 1923 Worker says he and Dominick Venturato were the first tried and both convicted; Agosti’s case was being appealed. The report does not specify his individual term or discharge. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/theworker/v04n262-feb-17-1923-Worker.pdf#page=4
Salzman reports a first jury disagreement, a later conviction and life sentence, followed by a pardon attributed to illness. One condition required return to Italy. He says Venturato alone remained imprisoned. This establishes Agosti’s freedom by the report, but neither a precise pardon/discharge day nor actual completed departure for Italy.
The follow-up recalls Governor Vic Donahey’s pardon of Agosti as a contrast to co-defendant Venturato’s continued imprisonment. It corroborates the earlier pardon account without establishing a new discharge day or actual deportation.
Daily Worker magazine supplement, August 8, 1925, PDF page 8.
