Biography
Thomas Hammerschmidt was from Ohio. Thomas Hammerschmidt was convicted for circulating a leaflet against registration and sentenced to fifteen months in prison. He served in Atlanta Penitentiary.
The Ohio account individually reports a fifteen-month custodial sentence for conspiracy to violate the Selective Service Act by urging others to refuse registration: Burke at Missouri State Prison, Hammerschmidt and Geier at Atlanta. The printed April30,1917 indictment predates the May18 statute and may be a source error; it is not entered as an arrest date. No complete actual-service total is supplied. [PDF64]
Government Prosecutions under the Espionage Act, Senate Document159 (March1922), PDF page 64.
