Skip to content

Robert Connellan

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#13653
State:California
Support
Anti-War Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Robert Connellan

Biography

Robert Connellan was secretary of the IWW local in Stockton, California. He was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Sacramento and sentenced to ten years in prison. He served at Leavenworth Penitentiary from July 1918.

Case

United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth
Charges: Federal prosecution under the Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918.
Arrested: Jul 1, 1918
Sentence: Ten years in prison.
Institution State: Kansas