Biography
Tom Trent was election manager for a workers’ aldermanic campaign in Chicago’s Third Ward. Page 3’s February 3 dispatch reports that American Legion men beat him and then brought assault-and-battery charges against him, and that he was in jail. The article places the attack within Democratic-machine intimidation of workers’ candidates, including George Racz. It does not establish an arrest day, verdict, sentence, release or actual detention length. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n030-Nat-sect-1-feb-04-1935-DW-LOC.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 348. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
