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Henry Hackberth

Released
Era:1930s
State:South Dakota
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Biography

Henry Hackberth was one of seventeen Sisseton farmers actually jailed on rioting charges after a United Farmers League delegation restored Henry Nieland to his foreclosed farm. The article explicitly says all seventeen were subsequently out on bail raised by the league. A threatened minimum ten-year sentence is not a conviction or completed term; exact custody dates and duration are not supplied. Labor Defender, April 1934, original PDF page 6. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1934/v10n04-apr-1934-orig-LD.pdf#page=6

Case

Charges: Rioting during organized resistance to a farm eviction.
Sentence: Jailed and released on bail pending trial; final disposition not supplied by this report.