John Pancner

Released
Age:63
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#13136
State:California
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year 8 Months 11 Days
Support
Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
John Pancner

Biography

John Pancner, from Chicago, Illinois, joined the IWW in 1905 and worked as aunion organizer in Nevada, California, Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois. He was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to ten years in prison and fined $30,000. He served in the Cook County Jail and Leavenworth Penitentiary from September 8, 1917, to May 19, 1919, and from April 30, 1921, to December 23, 1922.

Case

United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth
Charges: Federal prosecution under the Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918 (mass IWW trial in Chicago).
Incarcerated: Sep 8, 1917
Released: May 19, 1919
Sentence: 10 years. ADMITTED TO BAIL, APRIL 2, 1919. The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ordered thirty-eight of the men convicted in the Chicago mass trial released on bail pending its review of the case; the bonds ran from $5,000 to $10,000, with Haywood alone required to provide $15,000. Fifty-five others convicted in the same case did not seek bail. The order is not the release: each man left Leavenworth when his bond was actually furnished, which for those whose dates are recorded here fell between April 28 and September 28, 1919. Reported in the New York Times and across the wire services, April 3, 1919.
Institution State: Kansas

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