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Page 3 reports that Helen Lynch, John Murphy and ten other Lower Bronx Unemployed Council members were released August 7, 1935 on suspended sentences at the Magistrate’s Court on 161st Street. They were arrested the preceding week at Home Relief Bureau officials’ instigation during a demonstration for relief and charged with disorderly conduct. The sentence length and exact arrest day are not printed. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n189-NAT-aug-08-1935-DW-Q.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 528. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
A separate August 1934 report describes Lynch’s fifteen-day sentence and actual confinement in the Female House of Detention on Greenwich Street. It says protests secured her release from solitary confinement on Tuesday. The proposed August 7 prison release was still future, so no actual discharge date is set. This is not the separately recorded 1935 relief-demonstration prosecution.
The September 8, 1932 Daily Worker reports Lynch’s confinement in the Women’s Detention House following a ten-day sentence for protesting the jailing of children demanding milk. It says threats of a prisoners’ hunger strike secured release from solitary confinement. Its same-day prison-discharge announcement remained prospective. This 1932 episode is separate from the existing 1934 and 1935 cases.
