Ed Burns

Date of death:November 1918
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:California
Support
Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Biography

Ed Burns was arrested in California and jailed while awaiting trial in the Sacramento IWW case, the federal Espionage Act prosecution of the union's California membership. He was held in the Sacramento County Jail, where he died in November 1918 — one of the five Sacramento defendants who died in the county jail, most during the influenza epidemic, before the case ever came to trial in January 1919.

He is not the Ed Burns of the April 1920 Seattle Globe Building raid, who was arrested with W. E. Spear and Alicia Rosenbaum and has his own record in this database.

Case

Sacramento County Jail
Charges: ["Federal prosecution under the Espionage Act of 1917 and\/or the Sedition Act of 1918 (Sacramento IWW case)."]
Released: November 1918
Sentence: Died in the Sacramento County Jail in November 1918, awaiting the trial that began without him in January 1919. His previously stored arrest date of February 1, 1924 — five years after his death — was removed as impossible; his actual arrest date is not documented and none is entered.
Convicted: Never tried — died in custody awaiting trial
Institution State: California

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