Biography
Armin Von Harder was sentenced to three years in prison and served his sentence at McNeil Island Penitentiary beginning October 16, 1918.
1920s custody-date review: The Oregon Daily Journal's July 23, 1918 Los Angeles dispatch reports Armin von Harder already arrested several days earlier and transferred from city to county jail on an Espionage Act charge. The arrest is corrected to July 1918 with month precision, rather than the later penitentiary-start date. The precise arrest day, release endpoint, and identifiable photograph remain unresolved; other date fields have not been independently verified by this report.
Source: Oregon Daily Journal, July 23, 1918, page 7, Reel Spy Real Spy Is Charge of Officials.
The Oregon Daily Journal, July 23, 1918, page 7 gives Armin von Harder’s age as 52 in the original printed article. If accurate then, that suggests a birth year of 1865 or 1866. The original digit was checked visually because transcription incorrectly suggested 62. No exact birthday has been entered. The report describes earlier July arrest and transfer from city to county jail, not a newly established McNeil Island intake or release.
