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Vladimir Lossieff

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#13109
State:New York
Time Imprisoned:
9 Months 23 Days
Support
Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Vladimir Lossieff

Biography

Vladimir Lossieff, an editor from New York, New York, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to twenty years in prison and fined $20,000. He served in the Cook County Jail and Leavenworth Penitentiary from September 1917 to April 1918 and from September 7, 1918, to June 30, 1919, when he was released on bond. Lossieff jumped bail andbecamea fugitive from the law. In 1925, Lossieff was reported to be in Russia.

Case

United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth
Charges: Federal prosecution under the Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918 (mass IWW trial in Chicago).
Incarcerated: Sep 7, 1918
Released: Jun 30, 1919
Sentence: Twenty years in prison (Espionage/Sedition Act conviction). 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.
Institution State: Kansas