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Nicholas Schillaci

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1920s
State:New Jersey
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year 0 Days
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Biography

Nicholas Schillaci was one of the 1926 Passaic, New Jersey textile strikers prosecuted in the "bomb plot" frame-up that followed the great strike of 15,000 mill workers — charges the defense showed rested on firecrackers and paid testimony, brought as the mills' answer to the year-long strike. Convicted in early 1927 and sentenced to one year, he was held in the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton and the Bergen County jail. The ILD's Labor Defender carried the defendants' cases and their families' relief through 1927.

Case

New Jersey State Prison
Charges: Bomb plot (Passaic textile strike frame-up prosecution, 1926–27)
Incarcerated: 1927
Released: 1928
Sentence: one year; held at the New Jersey State Prison, Trenton, and the Bergen County jail.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: New Jersey