Biography
Frank Pansick was a member of the Taylor Springs village board and a defendant in the Hillsboro prosecution, according to the Daily Worker of February 7, 1935, page 3. The article names him alongside fellow board members Frank Mucci and Frank Prickett as endorsers of a united-front conference to repeal the Illinois criminal-syndicalist law. It establishes his connection to that prosecution but gives no individual arrest date, precise charge, verdict, sentence or actual detention. The printed spelling is retained without an unsupported alias. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n033-Nat-feb-07-1935-DW-LOC.pdf
The August 30, 1934 Daily Worker names him with George Reed as one of only three Hillsboro defendants who had obtained bail. It distinguishes eleven original May arrests from four later indictments and reports continuing jail conditions for the remaining prisoners. This confirms an actual bail release by the dispatch without establishing the precise day or complete duration. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n208-aug-30-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
The December 1, 1934 Daily Worker, page 3 individually identifies this Hillsboro defendant in the caption accompanying the unemployed-worker prosecution report. The December 4 issue, page 1 reports all fifteen defendants pleaded not guilty on December 3 and trial was postponed to December 7 before Judge McWilliams. This is an interim procedural plea, not a replacement for any later settlement or plea. Sources: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n287-Nat-dec-01-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3 ; https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n289-Nat-dec-04-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
The June 4 dispatch names him among ten Montgomery County leaders said to have been arrested the previous day after protests against local restrictions on speech, assembly and picketing. It prints Wittenberg, Pancsik and Prisckett for the corresponding established defendants. The June 3 group chronology differs from the existing May chronology for some defendants; it is preserved as a contemporary discrepancy rather than creating a second Hillsboro arrest or replacing an established date. Daily Worker, June 5, 1934, page 3. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n134-jun-05-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
The July 10 Hillsboro dispatch names Pansick as the first of the eleven prisoners released on bond, explicitly on Saturday, July 7, with $10,000 bond. This supplies an exact release day in the existing Hillsboro prosecution without resolving the conflicting May/June arrest chronology. Daily Worker, July 11, 1934, page 1. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n165-jul-11-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
The Journal-News retrospective of July 1, 2019, printed page 7A, names this person among fourteen arrested Hillsboro defendants and describes the January 7, 1935 negotiated disposition: all fourteen stipulated to guilt on the lesser charge of conspiracy to do an illegal act and were placed on nine months of parole. The original Illinois 1919 syndicalism indictment alleged advocacy of violence by speech and writing, without charging specific violent acts. George Hall prosecuted; Judge Paul McWilliams heard the December 1934 proceedings after transfer from T. M. Jett. Pretrial bail must be distinguished from the January parole disposition, which does not itself prove uninterrupted jail custody through January 7. The retrospective summarizes the arrests as June 1934; existing individual May/August chronologies are not overwritten. Source: https://cdn1.creativecirclemedia.com/journalnews/files/20190630-202614-HJN%207-1-19.pdf#page=7
Page 2 distinguishes Frank Panseik of the original Hillsboro group from his brother John, listed among the later arrests. This adds a reported family relationship and printed spelling to the existing Frank Pansick record without merging the brothers or changing the later settlement. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n198-aug-18-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 262. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
Daily Worker, August 18, 1934; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
