Biography
Arthur Roth was from New York, New York. Arthur Roth began serving a five-year prison sentence on July 18, 1918.
The presidential-clemency table in the 1921 Senate amnesty hearings records a sentence imposed July 17, 1918: Five years at Leavenworth. Commuted March 3, 1919 to one year. A pardon, commutation, nominal expiration or parole eligibility is not itself evidence of the day of physical release; the imposed or reduced term is not a measured time served. Duration audit: Kohn entry 354 identifies actual service beginning July 18, 1918; the old structured July 17 is the official sentence date. Neither source supplies actual release or twelve months completed. The extracted evidence accidentally includes durations for Rothfiser, Rowan and Ruby that follow Roth, which cannot be assigned to Roth. Unsupported exact counters are removed; no completed total is inferred from the imposed or commuted sentence.
Amnesty and Pardon for Political Prisoners, 1921 Senate hearings, printed page 177.
Stephen M. Kohn's individual entry 354, printed page 128 of American Political Prisoners, explicitly dates Roth's prison-service start to July 18, 1918. The subsequent entries concern different prisoners and supply no release date or completed duration for Roth.
Stephen M. Kohn, American Political Prisoners, printed page 128, entry 354.
