Biography
Frank Travis was arrested in California and jailed awaiting trial in the Sacramento IWW case. He was held in the Sacramento County Jail, where he died in November 1918.
The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly roster, printed as TRAVIS , FRANK, reports: Federal . Indicted Sacramento , Feb. 8 , 1918. Con piracy to violate Sections 6 , 9 , 19 and 37 and Section 4 of Espionage Act . Died in jail of Spanish influenza while awaiting trial . The roster is a contemporary labor-defense account. Its indictment, bail and imposed-term information is kept distinct from actual admission/release and complete time served; no missing gate date is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v02n03-mar-1920_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=20