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Fred Suttle

Released
Date of birth:August 1884
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#WSP 9176
State:California
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year
Support
Communism Anti-War Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Biography

Fred Suttle was given a five- to ten-year prison sentence for violating the state's criminal syndicalism law because he belonged to the IWW. While in prison Suttle suffered a mental breakdown and was transferred from Walla Walla Prison to the state hospital for the insane. He was released after nearly seven years in prison on September 24, 1928.

Case

Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla
Charges: Washington prosecution under the state criminal syndicalism law of 1919.
Released: Sep 24, 1926
Sentence: Five to ten years imposed
Convicted: Yes
Plead: Not guilty to criminal syndicalism
Institution State: Washington