Biography
Anna Leisman, a member of the Communist Party, served a sentence in the New York Women's Prison at Auburn. She was later pardoned by Governor Smith. She died of pneumonia almost immediately after her release from prison. According to Elizabeth Flynn, Leisman's pneumonia was the result of her being released from prison "in the freezing cold of January 1923" without any winter clothing. She was "not allowed to wait till her family arrived with heavier clothing. As a result she contracted pneumonia and died."
