Biography
Mary Paige was a young American-born Detroit woman arrested in a dawn FBI raid on February 6, 1940, one of the 'Detroit 16' charged under a revived 1818 anti-recruiting statute for aiding the recruitment of American volunteers for the Spanish Loyalist forces. Held in solitary in a cold cell at the Wayne County Jail with $10,000 bail, she saw the indictments dismissed by Attorney General Robert Jackson amid national protest.
The official Schweinhaut report printed May 7, 1940, fixes the actual Detroit arrest on February 6 and dismissal with release on February 16. Attorney Ernest Goodman states Paige remained in Wayne County Jail for ten days, held in solitary confinement; he observed her wearing a coat in a cold cell, later found her in an excessively hot cell, and reported her complaints of vermin and continued illness. He states that her parents obtained a visit only on the eighth or ninth day. Schweinhaut disputed aspects of her treatment account, so the complaints remain attributed. Bail was $10,000 and was never supplied. Source: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1940-pt5-v86/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1940-pt5-v86-14.pdf#page=9; https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1940-pt5-v86/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1940-pt5-v86-14.pdf#page=23; https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1940-pt5-v86/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1940-pt5-v86-14.pdf#page=24
