Biography
Martin Darkow was from Easton, Pennsylvania. Stephen M. Kohn's prisoner roster dates the start of his prison service to December 30, 1918. The Senate presidential-clemency table lists a five-year sentence in the eastern Pennsylvania prosecution for false statements to obstruct recruiting and a pardon granted June 10, 1920. His exact physical release and total time served remain unverified. A previously attached account of C. W. Davis and the Chicago IWW prosecution described a different prisoner.
The presidential-clemency table in the 1921 Senate amnesty hearings records a sentence imposed December 18, 1918: Five years for false statements to obstruct recruiting. Pardon granted June 10, 1920; the recommendation discusses a dissent by Justice Brandeis and the trial judge's conclusion that actual imprisonment was not required. A pardon, commutation, nominal expiration or parole eligibility is not itself evidence of the day of physical release; the imposed or reduced term is not a measured time served. Duration audit: Kohn printed page 93 gives only Darkow's Easton locality and December 30, 1918 service start. The following ten-year term, $30,000 fine and multiple prison intervals belong explicitly to C. W. Davis. Darkow's Senate row gives five years and June 10, 1920 pardon. No measured twelve-month total is supplied. Unsupported exact counters are removed; no completed total is inferred from the imposed or commuted sentence.
Amnesty and Pardon for Political Prisoners, 1921 Senate hearings, printed page 190.
Kohn's separate Darkow entry on printed page 93 gives his Easton locality and December 30, 1918 prison-service start. The next entry begins C. W. Davis and contains the Chicago IWW conviction, ten-year term, $30,000 fine and multiple custody intervals; those details are not Darkow's history.
Stephen M. Kohn, American Political Prisoners, printed page 93, entries 70–71.
