Biography
Sam Sadler was a Seattle socialist and longshoremen organizer arrested May 28, 1917 over anti-draft literature. The Seattle Star of March 19, 1918 reports that he received a two-year sentence the preceding afternoon and was held in King County jail when unable to furnish appeal bond. He later served at McNeil Island, but the transfer date remains unresolved. Stephen M. Kohn lists October 27, 1920 as the end of his imprisonment.
1920s remaining-entry review: The July 1917 International Socialist Review, printed page 11 (PDF page 16), explicitly captions the left-hand portrait Sam Sadler; the accompanying article identifies the Seattle socialist and longshoremen organizer. The profile photograph is an original-pixel rectangular crop, with no retouching, enhancement or generated details. The Morning Oregonian, May 29, 1917, page 1, carries a Seattle May 28 report explicitly saying Sam Sadler was arrested today and held at the detention station. The arrest is therefore May 28, 1917. Both original pages and the final crop were visually checked. Later sentencing, prison admission, intermediate bail and final release remain separate events requiring further reconciliation; the arrest is not substituted for a McNeil Island admission date.
Caption-identified original photograph; Contemporary arrest report
1920s remaining-entry review: The Seattle Star, March 19, 1918, page 1, as transcribed by We Never Forget, states that Wells was sentenced Monday afternoon, that Sadler and the Pass brothers received the same two-year sentence, and that Sadler was held in King County jail because he could not furnish bond. Monday was March 18. University of Washington historical research independently corroborates the two-year sentence. The inherited ten-year term is corrected. March 18 remains a county-custody date, with sentencing stored separately; the institution link is cleared because it falsely represented that date as McNeil Island admission. Kohn page 128 describes a term ending October 27, 1920, retained here. The original Seattle Star link was identified but could not be fetched in this follow-up; evidence is explicitly a contemporary-report transcription, not a newly inspected original scan. No Wells admission date is transferred to Sadler.
The presidential-clemency table in the 1921 Senate amnesty hearings records a sentence imposed March 18, 1918: Two years. Commuted October 26, 1920 to expire at once after over sixteen months served. A pardon, commutation, nominal expiration or parole eligibility is not itself evidence of the day of physical release; the imposed or reduced term is not a measured time served.
Amnesty and Pardon for Political Prisoners, 1921 Senate hearings, printed page 192.
The Seattle report individually identifies him among four antiwar leaflet defendants, alongside AaronFislerman and R.E.Rice, with trial still prospective. The individually captioned photograph identifies Sadler and Wells, but threatened long terms are not sentences already imposed. Existing identified portraits are retained.
International Socialist Review, July1917, vol.XVIII no.1, PDF page 16.
