Biography
Nicholas Schillaci was one of the 1926 Passaic, New Jersey textile strikers prosecuted in the "bomb plot" frame-up that followed the great strike of 15,000 mill workers — charges the defense showed rested on firecrackers and paid testimony, brought as the mills' answer to the year-long strike. Convicted in early 1927 and sentenced to one year, he was held in the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton and the Bergen County jail. The ILD's Labor Defender carried the defendants' cases and their families' relief through 1927.
The January 28, 1927 Passaic report identifies this existing bomb-case defendant among five still held at Hackensack awaiting trial under $15,000 bail each. The five were not among the six sentenced that afternoon. This corroborates actual pretrial detention without replacing the later individual disposition or copying the other cohort’s parole date. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1927/1927-ny/v04-n014-NY-jan-29-1927-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
The May 1927 account individually identifies Schillaci as one of the Bergen County defendants who actually obtained property bail before his later guilty plea and sentence. The pretrial detention and later sentence service must therefore not be treated as one uninterrupted span. The report's then-future sentencing date is not proof of an accomplished admission day. His complete custody total remains unknown. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1927/v02n05-may-1927-LD.pdf#page=6
1920s custody review: The contemporary report names this defendant in the eleven-person Passaic bomb-prosecution group arrested in September 1926. Arrest is recorded at month precision, not as an exact September 1 date. The exact prison-admission date is not established by this report. Sources: Daily Worker, page 3, January 28, 1927 dateline (scan catalogued January 29); Daily Worker, May 11, 1928, page 5.