Biography
Gustave H. Jacobsen of Chicago was convicted in a 1917-1918 federal World War I-era prosecution and pictured in Butterick's Delineator (July 1918) in the magazine's gallery of Huns, Spies and Traitors. Surviving public records of his case are sparse; he is listed in the magazine alongside the San Francisco Hindu-German Conspiracy defendants and the New York / Labor's National Peace Council munitions-strike conspirators, but the specific charges, sentence, and place of incarceration have not been located in readily available secondary sources. This entry is a stub for further research from primary court records (likely U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois) and contemporaneous Chicago newspapers.
