Biography
Louis Haas was the Westchester County secretary of the Communist Party and an Assembly candidate arrested at Mount Vernon, New York for distributing election circulars. The Daily Worker of December 25, 1936 reports that Acting City Judge Vernon F. Murphy sentenced him to twenty days on October 29 and that he actually remained jailed seven days before $1,000 bail was set. County Judge Gerald Nolan reversed the conviction, ruling the distribution ordinance unreasonable and oppressive. Attorney Irving Klein announced a planned false-imprisonment and malicious-prosecution suit; the report does not establish that the suit was filed or decided.
Louis Haas was the Westchester County secretary of the Communist Party and an Assembly candidate arrested at Mount Vernon, New York for distributing election circulars. The Daily Worker of December 25, 1936 reports that Acting City Judge Vernon F. Murphy sentenced him to twenty days on October 29 and that he actually remained jailed seven days before $1,000 bail was set. County Judge Gerald Nolan reversed the conviction, ruling the distribution ordinance unreasonable and oppressive. Attorney Irving Klein announced a planned false-imprisonment and malicious-prosecution suit; the report does not establish that the suit was filed or decided. Twenty days nominal sentence. Report explicitly states seven days actually jailed before bail of $1,000 was set. Reversal already reported by December 24, 1936, but its exact date is not supplied.
