Biography
Robin Staples of Nokomis, Illinois, was individually named among ten leaders arrested June 3, 1934 during the Montgomery County campaign against restrictions on assembly, speech, strikes and picketing. The June 4 dispatch reports an accusation of plotting to overthrow the government and protests against a proposed secret hearing. It supplies no individual release, final verdict or actual custody total. The printed name is retained without an invented expansion or alias. Daily Worker, June 5, 1934, page 3. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n134-jun-05-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
The Journal-News retrospective of July 1, 2019, printed page 7A, names this person among fourteen arrested Hillsboro defendants and describes the January 7, 1935 negotiated disposition: all fourteen stipulated to guilt on the lesser charge of conspiracy to do an illegal act and were placed on nine months of parole. The original Illinois 1919 syndicalism indictment alleged advocacy of violence by speech and writing, without charging specific violent acts. George Hall prosecuted; Judge Paul McWilliams heard the December 1934 proceedings after transfer from T. M. Jett. Pretrial bail must be distinguished from the January parole disposition, which does not itself prove uninterrupted jail custody through January 7. The retrospective summarizes the arrests as June 1934; existing individual May/August chronologies are not overwritten. Source: https://cdn1.creativecirclemedia.com/journalnews/files/20190630-202614-HJN%207-1-19.pdf#page=7
The June 25, 1934 Daily Worker individually names Gordon Hutchins, John Holland and Robin Staples among the Hillsboro prisoners on hunger strike. It reports that doctors warned them on June 21 that they could not withstand more than two additional days of starvation, and says nine prisoners were still refusing food on Saturday. The two days is a prospective medical warning, not a measured hunger-strike period, custody duration or report that anyone died. The article gives no exact individual admission or release day, and its Sunday strike-start reference is not used to construct a date or counter.
Daily Worker, June 25, 1934, original PDF pages 1–2 and page 6 editorial.
