Biography
Sam Kurland was a needle-trades labour activist. "Samuel" is not independently documented.
A contemporary labour newspaper reported a fifteen-day sentence for disorderly conduct during a strike in 1926; the arrest, sentencing date, facility and actual time served are all unresolved.
In the 1927 fur strike he was accused of assaulting Sam Zanistomsky on April 4 and arrested on either April 5 or April 7, the sources differing. Contemporary labour papers called the case a frame-up, which is their allegation rather than an established fact. He was initially held without bail. He was convicted of second-degree assault on June 29, 1927, committed to the Tombs on July 1 while sentencing was postponed, and sentenced on October 7, 1927 to five years at Sing Sing.
He was listed as Sing Sing prisoner number 8273 by October 1928 and at Comstock by December 1929. THE SENTENCE IS IN CONFLICT: the Comstock directory describes a one-to-ten-year term against the contemporary report of five years, and the precise legal sentence should be treated as unsettled.
His release, discharge or parole, actual time served, appeal history and vital dates are unresolved.
