In Jail for Flouting Poll Tax.
Special to The New York Times.
Trenton, . — Having said in the press and elsewhere that he would not pay the dollar yearly poll tax, Louis Josephson, a Socialist agitator, was arrested by Delinquent Tax Collector J. Edwin Fell and put in jail. With costs, the claim of the city against Josephson is $2.04, but he refuses to pay it. He says the tax is unconstitutional.
I haven’t been able to find out much more about Josephson. There’s a mention of him being banned by the authorities from speaking at a labor strike in , but that’s about it.
