Biography
Lillian Brewster was an Oklahoma City maid and repeated target of the vagrancy campaign described by Jack Spanner in July 1931. The report says she had faced nine vagrancy arrests and convictions, paying fines. It separately describes a Friday arrest while she sat in a car with a male companion, who paid both fines, followed by a second arrest later that evening. Unable to pay the second eleven-dollar fine, she was jailed to serve it out. Governor William Murray sought her release by telephone; police refused a telephone pardon, and Murray then issued a written pardon, delivered while she was still confined. The report does not state an exact physical discharge day or measured completed duration. It attributes to Murray the accusation that the campaign punished political opponents and attempted to banish residents; that allegation is not adopted as a court finding. Brewster said she turned to occasional solicitation when hungry and unable to find work. The writer also reports that, at sixteen, she drove the car from which her father shot her brother-in-law, and that her father was later killed in Pauls Valley; these are attributed biographical claims without dates or further judicial findings. The nine-arrest count is not turned into nine individually reconstructed case rows. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/new-masses/1931/v07n02-jul-1931-New-Masses.pdf#page=30
