Biography
I. T. Boutell appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions and Mob Violence" among people convicted and jailed under World War I–era free-speech statutes — chiefly the Espionage Act, the Sedition Act, draft-obstruction charges, or wartime state and local laws. Per that record, on June 16, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas, he was sentenced: Socialist, 6 months for distributing leaflets "A Good Soldier,''' by Jack Londpn, to drafted men. ". The NCLB — the direct predecessor of the American Civil Liberties Union — compiled these cases from April 1, 1917 to March 1, 1919 as a public record of the wartime suppression of free speech, a free press, and peaceful assembly.
