Smith, Joseph William, 1870-1935

found: Zanjani, S. S. The ignoble conspiracy, 1986:CIP galley (Joseph Smith; one of Nevada's leading Socialist politicians)

found: Phone call to Univ. of Nevada Press, 12/16/85(Joseph William Smith; b. 1870)

found: NUCMC data from Nevada Hist. Soc. for John Emmett Walsh papers, 1907-1918(Included is a formal statement (27 May 1907; which Walsh witnessed as a notary public), by Paul Schulz declaring that he was harassed by Goldfield Miners Union members because of his testimony as a witness in the court case of Nevada v. Morrie R. Preston and Joseph Smith)

found: Nevada State Library and Archives, WWW, July 13, 2009(Morrie Preston and Joseph William Smith were convicted of the 1907 murder of Goldfield, Nevada restaurant owner John Silva. Preston was convicted of murder, and Smith was convicted of manslaughter. Preston and Smith were both Socialists and mining company barons used the killing to discredit the burgeoning Industrial Workers of the World union movement in the Nevada mines. Smith was paroled in 1911 and died in 1935. In May of 1987 the Nevada Pardons Board gave posthumous pardons to Smith and Preston after 80 years.)