Osip Orloff

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:West Virginia
Support
Labor Organizing National Miners Union
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Biography

Osip Orloff was a Russian-born coal miner arrested with a comrade near Farmington, West Virginia in July 1932 during a mine-organizing drive; the company "found" a planted knife and he was charged with murder after a fight, facing life, held in the Morgantown county jail.

Case

Charges: Charged with murder on a planted-knife frame-up.
Arrested: Jul 25, 1932
Sentence: Held in the Morgantown county jail. Charges as recorded: Charged with murder on a planted-knife frame-up during a West Virginia mine strike.
Convicted: Held facing life, 1932

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