May Day Riot radicals are sentenced.

May 13, 1919

Roxbury District Court judge Albert Hayden sentences those arrested, including self-proclaimed socialist William James Slidis, who had graduated from Harvard at 15. After issuing the sentences, Hayden condemns “foreigners who think they can get away with their doctrines in this country” and declares “if I could have my way I would send them and their families back to the country from which they came.” Hayden’s home is bombed in June 1919.*

Sources
  • Puleo, Stephen