Biography
Identified as Mrs. Teresa Avita, mother of one child and member of the International Labor Defense and Unemployment Council. Page 12 individually lists this person among three women and one man held on the accusation of aiding a prisoner to escape, under $500 bond, in the Gallup proceedings of 1935. This four-person list is separate from the murder defendants. The source does not establish an individual arrest day, conviction, actual bond release or duration. Source: Louis Colman, Night Riders in Gallup, International Labor Defense, third printing June 1935, https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/pamphlets/night-riders.pdf
The April 20, 1935 Daily Worker named Terese Avitia among the Gallup defendants facing first-degree murder proceedings in Santa Fe after the early-April confrontation at the courthouse. The April 19 report described a preliminary hearing, with forty-five defendants appearing and three unavailable through wounds or illness. The report establishes charges and hearing participation, but does not individually establish continued physical detention for every person in its roster. No complete term or exact arrest date is established. This source prints the variant Terese Avitia; the existing canonical profile is Teresa Avita. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n095-NAT-apr-20-1935-DW-Q.pdf#page=1
