Biography
G. J. Terrill was one of the Los Angeles Industrial Workers of the World defendants known as the "Twenty-Seven", prosecuted under California's Criminal Syndicalism Act. Contemporary prisoner rolls give his name as G. J. Terrill, San Quentin number 38132; this record previously carried the shortened form "G. Terrill".
He was released from San Quentin State Prison with Joe Varella on December 12, 1926, the report identifying the two as the last prisoners still held from the Twenty-Seven case.
His admission is PROBABLE BUT NOT DOCUMENTED: the cohort was admitted on July 12, 1923, and the named prison roll confirms his custody but not that admission date, so no incarceration date is entered.
This was a state prosecution. An earlier version of this record classified it as a federal Espionage or Sedition Act case.
POSSIBLE DUPLICATE, flagged and not merged: this database also holds a record for "C. J. Terrill", likewise an Industrial Workers of the World member from Los Angeles at San Quentin from July 12, 1923. C and G are easily confused in transcription and the two may be one man, but nothing found here establishes it.
