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W. Srogi

Era:1930s
State:Connecticut
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Biography

W. Srogi was an unemployed young League member arrested in Granby, Connecticut while looking for work with two companions and arranging camping equipment outside a schoolhouse. A worker’s letter printed July 5, 1930 names all three and describes personally visiting them in Hartford County Jail. The men were tried the next day and given thirty-day vagrancy sentences. No exact arrest day, final release or complete actual duration is supplied; the nominal thirty days is not entered as time served. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v07-n161-NY-jul-05-1930-DW-LOC.pdf#page=4

Case

Charges: Vagrancy after stopping outside a schoolhouse while seeking employment.
Sentence: Thirty days imposed; actually visited in Hartford County Jail. Exact custody endpoints and total service unknown.