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Jack Caffray

AKA: John Caffrey
Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:Kansas
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year
Support
Anti-War Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Biography

Jack Caffray was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Wichita. He went insane in Shawnee County (Kansas) Jail.

The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly roster identifies John Caffrey and reports: Federal. Indicted Wichita, March 14, 1918, for conspiracy. The roster reports that he was held in an asylum; no clinical diagnosis is independently established. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v02n03-mar-1920_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=8

Case

Charges: Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918
Indicted: 1918-03-14