Biography
L. Kramer was from New York, New York. L. Kramer was convicted of conspiracy to violate the Selective Service Act. Kramer was sentenced to two years in prison and served in Atlanta Penitentiary between June 1917 and May 1919. Kramer, an anarchist, had been active in the birth control movement prior to his arrest and had been fined in 1916 for speaking publicly on birth control. In prison the authorities considered Kramer "extremely abusive" and, at one point, ordered him manacled with handcuffs to his prison cell. He was confined in the "isolation building."
The Senate hearing compilation lists L. Kramer in the southern district of New York under section 5, sentenced July 30, 1917 to one year. This is consistent with the separately recorded additional year for failure to register. It is not substituted for the June 13, 1917 date of the conspiracy sentence, and no additional period of actual custody is inferred.
Amnesty and Pardon for Political Prisoners (1921), printed page 145 (PDF page 152).
