Tom Foster (Cripple Creek WFM defendant)

Era:1900s
State:Colorado
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Biography

Tom Foster is individually named in Bill Haywood’s memoir installment XLV among Western Federation of Miners defendants arrested over the Vindicator mine explosion in the Cripple Creek labor war. Haywood says the district attorney quashed those indictments for lack of evidence. He is also individually named as arrested and tried in a separate attempted train-wreck prosecution; Haywood describes a directed acquittal after prosecution testimony exposed a claimed detective plot. The memoir reports repeated earlier arrests but does not enumerate or date them; no numerical actual duration, exact custody endpoint or additional inferred episode is added. The source name is kept distinct from other Davis, Foster and Kennedy records unless further identity evidence emerges. Page 6. Source: Daily Worker, February 25, 1929, https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v05-n358-NY-feb-25-1929-DW-LOC.pdf

Cases

Charges: Accused in the Vindicator mine explosion during the Cripple Creek labor war.
Sentence: Arrested and prosecuted over the explosion; indictments quashed. No individual intake or release dates or measured duration supplied.
Charges: Accused of attempting to wreck a train near the high bridge in the Cripple Creek district.
Sentence: Arrested and tried on the train-wreck accusation; directed acquittal. No exact booking or physical discharge dates, or measured custody duration, supplied.

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