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Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday August 7, 1918
Canon City, Colorado – Poem from Imprisoned Anarchist Comrade
We have not forgotten our Comrade, Louise Olivereau, who is now serving a ten-year prison sentence at Colorado’s state prison. Miss Olivereau was convicted last November on charges of violating the Espionage Act due her her anti-war and anti-conscription writings.
From the Mother Earth Bulletin of April 1918:
Ten-Year Sentence
Miss Olivereau entered the Colorado state prison at Canon City on December 13, 1917, having been convicted of circulating anti-war materials. Sadly news regarding her imprisonment is hard to come by. This short report from El Paso Herald of December 4, 1917, is the last mention that we could find of her by the nations newspapers:
Woman Anarchist Sentenced.
Seattle, Wash., Dec. 4.-Miss Louise Olivereau, self declared anarchist, convicted last week on six counts of an indictment charging violation of the espionage laws, was sentenced yesterday to ten years in the state prison at Canon City, Colo., by judge Jeremiah Neterer in the federal court. She was charged with having mailed circulars to men of military age advising them not to register.
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SOURCES
Mother Earth Bulletin
“Child of Mother Earth [Magazine]”
(New York, New York)
Vol 1 No 1 – Oct 1917
Emma Goldman, Publisher and Editor
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015013434934;view=2up;seq=256
Vol 1, No 7 – April 1918
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015013434934;view=2up;seq=308
Poem: “3 A. M. In Jail” by Louise Olivereau
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015013434934;view=2up;seq=314
See also search of this text:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?q1=olivereau&id=mdp.39015013434934&view=2up&seq=314
American Political Prisoners:
Prosecutions Under the Espionage and Sedition Acts
-by Stephen Martin Kohn
Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994
https://books.google.com/books?id=-_xHbn9dtaAC
[Page 121-2:]
Louise Olivereau, a “philosophical anarchist” from Seattle, Washington, was sentenced to ten years in prison for circulating anti-war materials. On December 13, 1917, she entered a jail in Canon City, Colorado, where she served two years.
El Paso Herald
(El Paso, Texas)
-Dec 4, 1917
https://www.newspapers.com/image/81025497/
IMAGES
Quote Thoreau, L. Olivereau Trial Nov 1917
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101059427920;view=2up;seq=58
Louise Olivereau, 1918
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101059427920;view=2up;seq=4
See also:
From Mother Earth Bulletin of March 1918
“Our Prisoners” by Stella Comyn
-with letter from Louise Olivereau
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015013434934;view=2up;seq=306
“The Louise Olivereau Case
Trial and Speech to the Jury in Federal Court of Seattle, Wash., Nov. 1917”
Published by Minnie Parkhurst
Seattle, WA, 1919
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/004969009
Note: First ad found for this pamphlet from:
Butte Daily Bulletin of Sept 3, 1919
https://www.newspapers.com/image/176148351/
“Anti-war activist Louise Olivereau is convicted of sedition on November 30, 1917.”
http://www.historylink.org/File/3483
“Olivereau, Louise (1883- 1963)” by Nick Heath
https://libcom.org/history/olivereau-louise-1883-1963
“Louise Olivereau and the Seattle Radical Community (1917-1923)”
-by Sarah Ellen Sharbach
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sarah-ellen-sharbach-louise-olivereau-and-the-seattle-radical-community-1917-1923
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