Biography
Mary Gossman was a young worker arrested at the Ford Hunger March in Dearborn, Michigan on 7 March 1932 — "Bloody Monday," when police and Ford security killed four marchers. Interrogated at the Detroit detective bureau and held incommunicado for three days, she was released on a writ of habeas corpus and subpoenaed before the grand jury.
In her signed account of the Ford Hunger March aftermath, Mary Gossman says Detroit detectives questioned her about the march’s organizers and attempted to question her about her private life. She alleges that an interrogator grabbed and pinched her arm and threatened to cut up Joe York’s body, after she had accompanied wounded marchers to hospital. The continuation confirms her three days of incommunicado confinement and release on habeas corpus already recorded here. The mistreatment allegations are her first-person account, not an independently adjudicated finding; no additional custody episode or calendar release day is inferred.
