Biography
Julio Pinto Gandia was a leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in 1937 in the wave of repression around the 21 March 1937 Ponce Massacre, when police fired on a Palm Sunday march at Ponce, killing some twenty and wounding hundreds; the ILD defended the jailed Nationalists.
The September 21, 1937 New Masses editorial individually lists this defendant among ten Nationalists then facing the Ponce murder trial and reports that the group had been imprisoned for six months in La Princesa under collective bail totaling $250,000. This is a contemporary approximate custody-to-date report, not a completed six-month sentence, exact admission date, individual bail amount or final conviction. Its description of a hand-picked jury and government campaign is the editorial’s allegation. The existing prosecution is retained without a duplicate case. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/new-masses/1937/v24n13-sep-21-1937-NM.pdf#page=18
The Cuban committee’s April 12, 1939 manifesto individually lists him as actually confined at Leavenworth. This is contemporary prison-location evidence, not an admission date, a completed sentence or a new arrest. The pamphlet was published in December 1939 and reprints documents of several different dates.