Adam Moleski

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1920s
State:Pennsylvania
Support
United Mine Workers of America
Adam Moleski

Biography

Adam Moleski was one of the three progressive Pittston, Pennsylvania anthracite miners framed with Sam Bonita for the killing of Frank Agati, a gunman for district president Rinaldo Cappellini, during the 1927-28 anthracite union civil war — though, the defense insisted, he never fired a gun. He was held in the Wilkes-Barre county jail and prosecuted in the case the ILD's Labor Defender fought through 1928.

Case

Luzerne County Jail
Charges: Framed with Sam Bonita.
Arrested: 1928
Sentence: Held in the Wilkes-Barre county jail; tried in the Bonita anthracite frame-up. Charges as recorded: Framed with Sam Bonita for the killing of a Cappellini gunman during the 1927-28 Pittston anthracite union war.
Convicted: Prosecuted for manslaughter, 1928
Institution State: Pennsylvania

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