Biography
Baldy Stewart was an IWW prospector whom Fred W. Thompson recalled being imprisoned.
Thompson recalls an older IWW prospector known as Baldy Stewart actually imprisoned with him in San Quentin during his 1923–1927 confinement. The memoir’s prison-breakfast anecdote individually establishes historical custody, but does not give a legal first name, individual charge, sentence or release. The nickname is retained without inventing a full identity.
