Biography
Emidio Gaspari, a Harwick miner, described being beaten by police during the Cheswick Sacco–Vanzetti protest, hospitalized, and then taken to the county jail in Pittsburgh on September 6, 1927. In his first-person account published by the Daily Worker, he said he was held there for five days and six nights before release; the article says no charges were filed.
Emidio Gaspari, a Harwick miner, described being beaten by police during the Cheswick Sacco–Vanzetti protest, hospitalized, and then taken to the county jail in Pittsburgh on September 6, 1927. In his first-person account published by the Daily Worker, he said he was held there for five days and six nights before release; the article says no charges were filed.
September 6 is a hospital-to-jail transfer, not a proven first arrest or initial custody day. The hospital stay is not automatically counted as imprisonment, and the phrase five days and six nights is preserved without forcing an exact elapsed-day counter or deriving a release day. The caption spells his first name Emido, while the article text says Emidio. The portrait is a Don Brown drawing, not a photograph.
