Biography
Fred Vogel was a Swiss immigrant who worked as a sheepman, farmer and butcher in Fergus County. A dispute involving national loyalty and comments about the Kaiser led to his conviction under Montana’s sedition law. He was imprisoned at Deer Lodge and released on May 11, 1919. He later worked in a gravel pit and died in 1948.
The original Montana State Prison descriptive intake form records actual receipt at Deer Lodge on 1918-06-26 and sentencing on 1918-06-25 in the Fergus County state sedition case, with an imposed term of one to twelve years. The report date is distinct from prison admission; receipt is not necessarily initial arrest, and the term is not completed time served. No new physical discharge is inferred. The named form includes frontal and profile photographs. Source: https://clcowgill.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/intakeform-m-w.pdf#page=23
The original Montana State Prison descriptive intake form records the sentence date as 1918-06-25 and records the plea/trial response as: Did not plead guilty; stood trial. This sentencing entry is separate from receipt at the penitentiary.
The historical Mob Action account identifies Roy Ayers as the judge who sentenced Fred Vogel. This supplements the separately recorded intake-form sentencing date.
