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Jack Louis

Era:1930s
State:New York
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Jack Louis was arrested at an anti-Hearst open-air meeting at Augus Street and Southern Boulevard in the Bronx on August 13, 1935. Louis was a speaker. On Wednesday, August 21, Magistrate Thomas A. Aurelio sentenced Jack Louis and Louis Rothbaum to two days in jail. The police sergeant testified he broke up the meeting because they were libeling Hearst, whom he called America’s foremost patriot. International Labor Defense attorney Isidore Bassoff appealed. The two days is an imposed sentence, not a measured completed term; the statutory count and physical release remain unprinted. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n203-NAT-aug-24-1935-DW-Q.pdf#page=4

Case

Charges: Arrest during anti-Hearst speech and assembly; statutory count unprinted.
Arrested: Aug 13, 1935
Sentenced: Aug 21, 1935
Sentence: Jack Louis was arrested at an anti-Hearst open-air meeting at Augus Street and Southern Boulevard in the Bronx on August 13, 1935. Louis was a speaker. On Wednesday, August 21, Magistrate Thomas A. Aurelio sentenced Jack Louis and Louis Rothbaum to two days in jail. The police sergeant testified he broke up the meeting because they were libeling Hearst, whom he called America’s foremost patriot. International Labor Defense attorney Isidore Bassoff appealed. The two days is an imposed sentence, not a measured completed term; the statutory count and physical release remain unprinted. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n203-NAT-aug-24-1935-DW-Q.pdf#page=4