Incidents

In the morning of Oct. 10. 1953 two young workers, Norman and James Daniels, were unmerciful beat of by six club-happy Buffalo Police Officers . . . a beating which continued in two police vehicles en route to the jail. Both men were hospitalized with severe injuries.

42 members of the Communist Party of Buffalo had been arrested by Buffalo Police, Mrs. Dr. Anna Reinstein, wife of Boris Reinstein, being the last victim. Mrs. Reinstein and 10 others were released on bail.

Frank M. Cassidy was ordered released by Justice Charles B. Sears on the ground that the information against him was not properly drawn up. But as Cassidy left the court he was rearrested on new information drawn by Walter P. Hofheins, of the District Attorney’s office.

The new information alleged that Cassidy “is feloniously and a member of a certain unlawful society commonly known as the Communist Party, organized and existing for the purpose of teaching and advocating the doctrine of criminal anarchy and among other things, the overthrown of organized government by force and violence.”