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Joe Trumble

AKA: Joe Trunble
Released
Gender:Male
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#10613
State:Texas
Time Imprisoned:
8 Months 19 Days
Support
Anti-Militarism Draft Resistance
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Biography

Joe Trumble was a Rains County, Texas farmer, brother of E. A. Trumble and uncle of John William Trumble, convicted with them at Tyler in September 1918 of federal seditious conspiracy connected to resistance to the Selective Service Act. The case grew out of anti-draft meetings held in the county in the summer of 1917 after local farmers complained their draft quota was unfairly high; rumours of a planned uprising proved baseless, but about fifty people were seized in raids beginning on the night of August 8, 1917. He received the lightest of the family sentences, one year and one day, remained at liberty through the appeal, and entered USP Atlanta on January 31, 1920 as prisoner 10613. His sentence was commuted on October 13, 1920 and he was released a week later, on October 20. He was granted a full presidential pardon on June 19, 1923. The National Archives prisoner index appears to misspell his surname as Trunble.

Case

USP Atlanta
Charges: Seditious conspiracy (federal) — conspiring to resist the Selective Service Act.
Arrested: August 1917
Sentenced: Sep 20, 1918
Incarcerated: Jan 31, 1920
Released: Oct 20, 1920
Sentence: One year and one day for seditious conspiracy. Sentenced on or about September 20, 1918 but at liberty throughout the appeal; entered USP Atlanta on January 31, 1920 as prisoner 10613, age recorded as 41. His sentence was commuted on October 13, 1920 and he was released on October 20, 1920 — 263 days. He received a full presidential pardon on June 19, 1923. Verdict as recorded: Yes — one of twenty-three convicted at the federal court in Tyler, Texas after a trial that opened September 9, 1918; affirmed by the Fifth Circuit on November 25, 1919, mandate issued January 6, 1920. Charges as recorded: Seditious conspiracy (federal) — conspiring to resist the Selective Service Act, arising from the anti-draft meetings held in Rains County, Texas in the summer of 1917.
Convicted: Yes
Plead: Not guilty
Institution State: Georgia