Ida Craddock Biography
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upon her release from prison, she was immediately re arrested under the federal Comstock Law. She refused an offer to escape a prison sentence by pleading insane. On the morning she was to be sentenced, she committed suicide by slashing her wrists on inhaling natural gas. Ida left a letter to the public, which read in part. I am taking my life because a judge at the instigation of Anthony Comstock has declared me guilty of a crime. I did not commit the circulation of obscene literature. Perhaps it may be in my death more than in my life. The American people may be shocked into investigating the dreadful state of affairs, which permits that unctuous sexual hypocrite Anthony Comstock toe wax fat and arrogant, and to trample upon the liberties of the people invading in my own case, both my right to freedom of religion and to freedom of press