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Ernest Honeywell

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Kansas
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Labor Organizing
Ernest Honeywell

Biography

Ernest Honeywell was one of eleven CIO Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers charged with murder after a vigilante attack on their union hall at Galena, Kansas in 1937.

Contemporary Galena photograph

The original caption identifies Ernest E. Honeywell in the rear row and explicitly says nine of eleven union defendants are pictured. The biography’s defendant count is corrected from ten to eleven. This is not evidence of an exact custody endpoint.

The Midland Reporter-Telegram, April 30, 1937, page 1, “Nine Charged With Murder After Union Battle”.

Case

Charges: Charged with murder.
Arrested: 1937
Sentence: Held for trial; defended by the ILD.