Biography
William Simons was the director of the Chicago Workers School. The January 27, 1926 Daily Worker reports his arrest during an East Chicago, Indiana memorial meeting, initial detention without a disclosed charge, and attorney David J. Bentall learning of an accusation of advocating overthrow of the government. It explicitly reports his release after a $4,000 real-estate bond was supplied. The preliminary hearing was scheduled for January 25; that scheduling is not a conviction. Exact physical arrest and release days and completed custody are unknown. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n013-NY-jan-27-1926-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
Sources
The January 26 Daily Worker carries a January 25 East Chicago dispatch documenting Simons’s arrest at the Lenin memorial meeting and actual release on a $4,000 real-estate bond. The dispatch establishes January 1926 for both events without identifying either day.