Biography
Jerry Furlough was a Burlington, North Carolina textile worker charged in the prosecution arising from the September 1934 dynamite plot at the E. M. Holt Plaid Mill. He entered a plea of nolo contendere to conspiracy, which the state accepted, and the prosecution dropped the other counts against him. Furlough then testified for the prosecution against the union defendants. Contemporary reports described him as back at work for the company by March 1935.
W. T. Couch, The Carolina Magazine, December 1935, printed pages 21-25 (PDF pages 101-105), reports that prosecution witness Jerry Furlough received one year on the chain gang and served seven or eight months, then obtained mill employment. This conflicts chronologically with the earlier report that he was back at company work by March 1935 after a late-1934 prosecution. Both accounts are retained; no exact release date or numerical custody duration is adopted. Couch says he held an affidavit alleging that Furlough solicited dynamiting at least two days before September 15, 1934, although Furlough testified that his first dynamiting discussion with Anderson came after that explosion. This is an attributed evidentiary allegation, not an adjudicated finding. Couch also attributes an earlier six-month military auto-theft sentence and dishonorable discharge to a relative, contrary to Furlough's sworn denial; that unrelated allegation is not added as a political case. Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Carolina_magazine_%28serial%29_%28IA_carolinamagazine65univ%29.pdf
