Biography
Robert W. Sisson was a railroad striker convicted with Maurice J. Sullivan on December 7, 1922, in Washington, D.C. He received five years for an assault on men working during the strike and spent over eighteen months at Lorton reformatory. After co-defendant Earle D. Dean cleared both men in a confession, President Calvin Coolidge pardoned Sisson and Sullivan on July 12, 1924.
Case
District of Columbia Reformatory at Lorton
