Pietro Nigra

Released
Age:100
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#13704
State:Illinois
Support
Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Pietro Nigra

Biography

Pietro Nigra, a miner from Chicago, Illinois, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago and sentenced to eighteen months in prison. He served in the Cook County Jail and Leavenworth Penitentiary from October 1917 to April 1918, from March 1919 to April 1919 and from April 1921 to May 19, 1922.

Case

Charges: Federal prosecution under the Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918 (mass IWW trial in Chicago).
Sentence: 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.

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