Biography
Mary Donovan Hapgood, a labor activist who had been a leading figure in the Sacco-Vanzetti defense, was arrested with her husband Powers Hapgood on March 4, 1928 at Pittston, Pennsylvania during the anthracite miners' revolt on a charge of "inciting to riot," of which she was later acquitted.
A fuller account, per the curator: Mary Donovan Hapgood (1886-1973) was a union organizer, a Socialist Party candidate for governor of Massachusetts, and a leading member of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee. After the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti she was arrested outside the funeral parlor where their bodies were held, on charges of advocating anarchy and inciting a riot, for carrying a placard quoting the judge who had sentenced the men: Did you see what I did to those anarchist bastards? - Judge Thayer. A year later, for speaking at a meeting of striking miners in Pittston, Pennsylvania, she was jailed four days - March 4 to March 8, 1928 - in the Luzerne County jail at Wilkes-Barre, on charges of disorderly conduct, inciting to riot, and a peace-bond proceeding, and released on bond of $2,500 individually, $5,000 combined.
