Biography
Frank Geizler was an Austrian member of the Industrial Workers of the World. He was held at Grand Forks, North Dakota by September 1, 1917, prosecuted at Fargo for threatening President Woodrow Wilson, and sentenced to two years, which he is reported to have begun serving on March 9, 1918 at the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth as prisoner number 12495.
On October 18, 1919 he was re-arrested by police immediately upon his release from Leavenworth and held for deportation. The final deportation disposition and the detention facility are unresolved.
The interval from March 9, 1918 to October 18, 1919 is 588 days. That figure is calculated from the two reported dates rather than taken from any statement of time served, and it excludes the unresolved pre-trial custody at Grand Forks.
