Biography
Edith Washburn is individually identified as one of eighteen defendants in the recent Atlanta Red arrests and as Walter Washburn’s wife. The article’s detailed July 12 kidnapping concerns Walter, Nathan Hurd and Clyde Crammer, not a separate kidnapping of Edith. Her individual charge, arrest day, confinement facility and physical release date are not given. Her actual political arrest is reported expressly; no prison term or family member’s injuries are transferred to her. Daily Worker, August 11, 1936, page 6. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n192-NY-aug-11-1936-DW-Q.pdf#page=6
Pages 1–2 individually name her in the Thursday May 28 raid on an interracial private-home workers’ meeting in Atlanta. The prosecution charged inciting to insurrection and disorderly conduct, citing political newspapers and interracial attendance. The $90,000 bond is collective for eighteen defendants, and June 5 hearing remained prospective. This sharpens her existing Atlanta case, without assigning her husband’s later kidnapping to her or treating death exposure as an imposed sentence.
