Biography
Henry C. Evans, recorded in contemporary sources as H. C. Evans and Henry Evans, was among the Industrial Workers of the World defendants arrested in the Sacramento crackdown that began in December 1917. He was jailed in the Sacramento County Jail and federally indicted on Espionage Act-related charges. His individual arrest and admission day were not located.
HE DIED OF INFLUENZA AND DOUBLE PNEUMONIA WHILE AWAITING TRIAL, and so received no sentence and had no release. THE DEATH DATE IS IN CONFLICT: the Sacramento Bee reported his death on October 31, 1918, while a cemetery-derived record gives October 30. October 31 is recorded and the conflict is noted rather than silently resolved.
A cemetery-derived record says he was born in 1873 in Mississippi and was 45; the exact birth date and locality are unresolved, so the year is stored as approximate.
THIS RECORD WAS FILED AS "ED EVANS", which appears to conflate him with his fellow prisoner Ed Burns. He is not to be confused with Henry Evans the Oberlin abolitionist, a separate record in this database.
