Mrs. J. Irving Gross

Updated Boston custody dates

Updated Boston custody chronology: arrested and incarcerated February 24, 1919; sentenced February 25; released March 4, 1919. The dated stay is eight elapsed days. These dates follow the supplied record correction; earlier source notes are retained as historical background where accounts differ.

Stevens records a fifteen-day Lafayette Square sentence in August 1918 and an eight-day Boston sentence in February 1919. Adding these imposed terms does not establish twenty-three days actually served. The stored nominal-as-actual day override is removed; no unsupported admission or release endpoint is substituted.

Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, PDF pages 7.

Kenneally identifies Mrs. J. Irving Gross as Minnie Gross. His reconstruction reports that her charges were placed on file during the February 1919 Boston proceedings. He notes that Stevens’s eight-day Charles Street sentence is not supported by the other contemporary accounts he examined. These differing accounts do not establish a completed eight-day Boston term.

Kenneally, Historical Journal of Massachusetts 45(1), Winter 2017, printed pages 114 and note 33.

Stevens reports five Lafayette Square arrests in August 1918 and a fifteen-day District Jail sentence, distinct from the February 1919 Boston prosecution. The unenumerated arrests are represented as one qualified episode, not five invented case histories. Only the explicit arrest month is entered; no admission, release or complete actual duration is established.

Doris Stevens, Appendix 4, printed page 360.

Stevens identifies Gross as a charter member of the Massachusetts branch of the National Woman’s Party.

Doris Stevens, Appendix 4, printed page 360.