Biography
Ercole Morreti was one of the Cheswick protest defendants whose Oakmont hearing before Justice of the Peace Blair was reported in an August 25 dispatch in the August 26, 1927 Daily Worker. Fourteen workers faced unlawful-assembly and inciting-to-riot accusations. The article names Ercole Morreti among those actually released after bail was furnished, with bail of $2,000. Allen Davis represented the defendants. The hearing’s seven hours describe legal proceedings, not their total confinement. The report does not supply a secure personal arrest day or completed custody total. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1927/1927-nat/v04-n192-NAT-aug-26-1927-DW-Q.pdf#page=2
The New York edition’s Oakmont account further describes Morreti as a wounded World War veteran who had challenged the ban on the Cheswick meeting. His already recorded actual release on furnished $2,000 bail is not a second custody episode; the seven-hour hearing is not his detention total. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1927/1927-ny/v04-n192-NY-aug-26-1927-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
