Biography
William Turner was a young Detroit worker whose arrest after an altercation at a fire station prompted a local defense campaign. A September 1935 account described firemen and police beating him, treatment at the receiving hospital and transfer to jail. It said he was released on bond the next day. Maurice Sugar defended him at a five-day trial; the jury convicted him and the judge imposed thirty days. The account does not establish whether he subsequently served that whole sentence or give exact calendar custody endpoints.
Sources and evidence limits
The full original Southern Justice in Detroit feature individually identifies Turner, a garage odd-job worker, physically arrested, treated in hospital, transferred to jail and put on bond next day. It then recounts a five-day jury trial scheduled September 13 and thirty-day sentence. The relative month-since-arrest wording is not a reliable exact month/day. Only the reported initial bail release is represented at year precision; the full lifetime/case total stays unknown and the sentence is not counted as thirty actually served days. The printed age is 22; no birth date or race field is inferred.
Birth and death dates are unverified. No race or organizational affiliation is inferred. Historical detention does not imply present custody.
