Biography
Stanley Moore was a Brooklyn youth whose July 1935 arrest and detention prompted an International Labor Defense response to reported police beating and a coerced guilty plea.
The July 5, 1935 Daily Worker reports that police picked up Stanley Moore on Wednesday night, July 3, at Ralph and St. John Streets in Brooklyn and took him to the 77th Precinct. He appeared at the Gates and Marcy Avenues magistrate’s court on July 4. The newspaper alleges police beat him and pressured him into pleading guilty to a rape charge; it also reports that Unity Hospital doctors said the alleged victims had not been assaulted. These are the newspaper’s reported allegations, not independently established findings. Moore was ordered held for sentencing the following Tuesday. The International Labor Defense assigned Irving Schwab to his defense, and neighborhood workers sought his release. The scheduled sentencing date does not establish an accomplished sentence or release. No complete custody total or verified release date is supplied.
