Biography
Ed Theriault and his brother were held incommunicado for a week in the Oroville, California jail on a criminal-syndicalism accusation. A March 19, 1924 dispatch in the March 20 Daily Worker reports that they were kept in separate tanks, repeatedly interrogated, and released after the charge was dismissed for lack of evidence. The report establishes a week of actual custody, without exact admission or discharge dates.
Ed Theriault and his brother were held incommunicado for a week in the Oroville, California jail on a criminal-syndicalism accusation. A March 19, 1924 dispatch in the March 20 Daily Worker reports that they were kept in separate tanks, repeatedly interrogated, and released after the charge was dismissed for lack of evidence. The report establishes a week of actual custody, without exact admission or discharge dates. Contemporary report explicitly describes one week in actual jail custody and subsequent release after dismissal; exact endpoints unknown.
