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Statement on the Bobby Franks Case, July 28, 1924 (excerpt)

Mary Field reports on her interview of Addams with regard to the criminal case against Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb for the murder of fourteen year old Bobby Franks in Chicago. Other comments were made by Carl Sandburg and Elllsworth Faris.

Crime

We Called Him Brother, November 1, 1924

Armes describes Russian refugee Jan Pouren's efforts to enter and remain in the United States.

Crime Enforcement Immigrants Immigration Prisons Russia Writings

Prohibition, March 2, 1928

Addams discusses the impact of prohibition on urban communities and notes a gradual increase in availability of alcohol due to home-based distilling. Addams gave this talk to the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek Social Workers' Clubs at the Y.W.C.A. building.

Chicago Child Welfare Crime Prohibition

Jane Addams to William Edgar Borah, August 16, 1927

Addams asks Borah to intercede to prevent the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Anti-radicalism Crime Enforcement Immigrants International Affairs Law Requests

Jane Addams to William Edgar Borah, August 16, 1927

Addams condemns the future execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, claiming it will harm relations between the US and its immigrant inhabitants.

Immigrants International Affairs Law Onsite Requests

Address Before the Nineteenth Century Club, October 14, 1907 (excerpts)

Addams argues that woman suffrage might impact the plight of fallen women who are preyed upon by men.

Crime Enforcement Lectures Morality Prostitution Woman Suffrage

Jane Adams to Emily Caroline Fitten MacDougald, ca. March 25, 1914

Addams asks MacDougald to organize the women of Atlanta to seek a reprieve for Leo Frank in order to review the evidence.

Crime Requests Social Justice

Gifford Pinchot to Jane Addams, January 2, 1924

Pinchot tells Addams that he cannot pardon prisoners under Pennsylvania law and advises that the ACLU follow the procedures.

Anti-radicalism Civil liberties Government Prisons Requests

E. Wayne Stahl to the Editor of the Rock Island Argus, December 11, 1920

Stahl criticizes Addams for her opposititon to capital punishment.

Crime Crime Enforcement Criticism

Everett Rich to the Editor of the Chicago Tribune, December 6, 1920

Rich disputes Addams's views on capital punishment, claiming that sentimental opposition results in more crime.

Crime Crime Enforcement Criticism

L. H. Knox to the Editor of the Chicago Tribune, December 7, 1920

Knox takes issues with Addams's opposition to capital punishment, offering examples of English justice.

Crime Crime Enforcement Criticism England

Safety Above Sentimentality, December 4, 1920

The Tribune praises Governor Lowden's decision to allow Nicholas Viana to be executed and calls Addams's appeal sentimental.

Crime Crime Enforcement Criticism

Jane Addams to the Editor of the Chicago Tribune, December 4, 1920

Addams defends her views on capital punishment, replying to a critical editorial.

Courts Crime Juvenile Delinquency

Statement on the Nicholas Viana Case, December 1, 1920 (excerpt)

Addams argues against the death penalty for Nicholas Viana because he is a minor.

Courts Crime Juvenile Delinquency

Jane Addams to Friend William Richardson, November 3, 1925

Addams asks Richardson to pardon Charlotte Whitney.

Anti-radicalism Crime Government Requests

Jane Addams to Calvin Coolidge, August 9, 1927

Addams asks Hoover for clemency for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti as a means of foreign-born Americans

Anti-radicalism Crime Government Immigrants Requests

Louis Folwell Hart to American Civil Liberties Union, December 19, 1923

Hart tells the ACLU that the prisoners that they asked to be released have refused parole until other prisoners were freed.

Anti-radicalism Crime Requests

Statement in the Disappearance of Jeanne DeKay, January 22, 1920

Addams doubts that a girl held in the disappearance of Jeanne DeKay is the heiress.

Crime Hull-House

Statement of the Disappearance of Jeanne DeKay, January 20, 1920

Addams tells the press that the woman pretending to be the missing DeKay is an adventuress.

Crime Hull-House

Statement on the Disappearance of Jeanne DeKay, January 12, 1920

Newspaper story about the latest in the disappearance of Jeanne DeKay contains a short statement about the case by Addams.

Crime Hull-House

Statement on the Execution of Raffilo Durange, January 1, 1920

Addams protests the execution by hanging in front of 200 prisoners as savage.

Crime Law

Alice Stone Blackwell to Jane Addams, April 17, 1921

Blackwell asks Addams to help efforts to aid Soghomon Tehlirian, the assassin of Turkish leader Mehmet Talaat.

Armenia Crime Genocide Germany Requests

The Greatest Free Speech Trial of the War, February 1921

The ACLU seeks funding for an appeal of the IWW conspiracy case.

Anti-radicalism Censorship Courts Free Speech Labor

M. M. B. to Jane Addams, December 5, 1920

The author asks Addams to try to stop Nicholas Viana's execution.

Crime Onsite Prisons Requests

Mary Glynn Collins to Jane Addams, December 4, 1920

Collins informs Addams of efforts in Colorado to lobby for a commutation of Nicholas Viana's death sentence.

Crime Enforcement Requests

Anonymous to Jane Addams, December 4, 1920

A "Friend to Man" asks Addams to give a Bible to Nicholas Viana and hopes that his execution will be stayed.

Crime Enforcement Requests

Sixty Prisoners Sentenced, January 14, 1921

A Guardian clipping reports that 60 men were sentenced to ten years imprisonment for connection to the Caherguillamore shootings and that the Lord Mayor of Cork testified in Washington.

Crime England Ireland Peace War