Leo Laukki

Released
Date of birth:22. 11. 1880
Date of death:15. 09. 1938
Age:57† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#13108
State:Minnesota
Time Imprisoned:
7 Months 23 Days
Support
Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Leo Laukki

Biography

Leo Laukki, a university professor and editor of the IWW's Finnish language newspaper from Smithville, Minnesota, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to twenty years in prison and fined $20,000. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from September 7, 1918, to April 30, 1919, when bond was posted. Laukki jumped bail, became a fugitive from the law and fled to Russia.

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 7, 1918
Released: Apr 30, 1919
Sentence: Twenty years in prison (Espionage/Sedition Act conviction). 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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