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Dave Ingar

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#13160
State:Michigan
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Dave Ingar

Biography

Dave Ingar, an ironworker from Detroit, Michigan, was convicted at the mass YWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to five years in prison and fined $20,000. He served in the Cook County Jail and Leavenworth Penitentiary from September 1917 to March 1918 and from September 1918 to May 14, 1922, when he was released at the expiration of his sentence.

Case

United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth
Charges: Federal prosecution under the Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918.
Sentence: 5 years.
Institution State: Kansas