Biography
John Bernabei, a former miner and Cheswick notary and real-estate worker, described police arresting him at home at ten o’clock on the night of the Cheswick Sacco–Vanzetti meeting. The Daily Worker’s October 13, 1927 account reports that police took him to jail and that he remained held under $5,000 bail.
Printed John Bernbei, he is individually named in the August 25 Oakmont account among Cheswick defendants actually released after bail was furnished before Justice of the Peace Blair. The charge was unlawful assembly and inciting to riot, with $5,000 bail for him and Allen Davis appearing for the defense. Seven hours describes the hearing, not his total confinement. This establishes an initial August 1927 bail release; the later October description of detention remains unresolved and is not combined into uninterrupted August–October custody. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1927/1927-ny/v04-n192-NY-aug-26-1927-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
John Bernabei, a former miner and Cheswick notary and real-estate worker, described police arresting him at home at ten o’clock on the night of the Cheswick Sacco–Vanzetti meeting. The Daily Worker’s October 13, 1927 account reports that police took him to jail and that he remained held under $5,000 bail.
His account describes police violence and threats against his family; those allegations remain attributed to him. The meeting’s exact day is not independently fixed by this article. The body prints Bernabei and the drawing caption Barnabei. No particular criminal count, physical release or completed custody duration is established.
