Biography
Luis Ángel Correa was a Puerto Rican Nationalist arrested during the investigation of the March 21, 1937 Ponce Massacre. District Attorney R. V. Pérez Marchand reported his arrest on charges of riot, carrying weapons and violating Law 14 of July 8, 1936, with bail set at $500. Correa was later one of the Nationalists charged with the murders of two policemen killed in the massacre. He was confined at La Princesa in San Juan while that case was pending and was a defendant in the February 1938 trial.
The district attorney’s March 24, 1937 report printed on page 17 says the preceding two days’ investigation resulted in Luis Angel Correa, alias Chiguan, being arrested for riot, weapons possession and violation of Law 14 of July 8, 1936 under $500 bail. This confirms the existing Ponce custody episode by March 24 without turning bail amount into actual release or imposing an exact arrest day. Source: https://www.congress.gov/75/crecb/1937/06/03/GPO-CRECB-1937-pt5-v81-11.pdf
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