Biography
Walter Carpenter was sentenced by Judge Weil to six months in jail for lingering in New York’s theater district and opening taxi doors for tips, according to Jorge’s page 4 column, which identifies Walter Carpenter as an unemployed twenty-year-old. The paper criticizes the punishment as class-based policing of an unemployed worker. It gives no statutory charge, exact arrest, prison intake or physical release. The six months is imposed punishment, not proven completed custody. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n034-NY-feb-09-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=4
