Biography
Tito Ligi was an Italian anarchist born in Sassoferrato who immigrated to the United States in 1912 and associated with Luigi Galleani’s circle. Federal authorities arrested him in Scranton, Pennsylvania on April 12, 1921 for alleged draft evasion and held him in default of $10,000 bail. Investigators also treated him as a suspect in the 1920 Wall Street bombing, although witnesses failed to identify him consistently and the government ultimately acknowledged it lacked evidence connecting him to the bombing. A federal court sentenced Ligi to one year for draft evasion on May 6, 1921. He was deported on August 3, 1922. The exact end of his criminal imprisonment and any subsequent immigration detention have not been located.
1920s custody review: The April 1921 report identifies Ligi as held on the draft-evasion charge. His immigration record had reused that admission date and calculated 478 days through deportation, despite the unknown end of criminal imprisonment and unknown beginning of immigration detention. The duplicated admission and unsupported exact total have been removed; the independently documented draft-evasion arrest is retained in its own case.
Sources: The County Record, April 28, 1921, page 1; Kenyon Zimmer, Tito Ligi biography.
