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Harold Brown (New York newsboy, 1931)

Full name:Harold Brown
Era:1930s
State:New York
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Biography

Page 2 reports twelve-year-old Harold Brown beaten and arrested while selling the Daily Worker in the BMT Union Square station the previous day, November 10, 1931. The report says a judge refused to hear his account of self-defense and he was later actually released. The officer allegedly threatened to break his neck if he sold the paper again. The article provides no formal count, conviction or measured custody total. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n271-NY-nov-11-1931-DW-LOC.pdf

Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 887. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.

Case

Charges: Arrest for selling the Daily Worker; statutory charge unprinted.
Arrested: Nov 10, 1931
Sentence: Released by the report; no judicial term, exact physical discharge time or complete custody duration established.