Biography
G. W. Bouldin was given a prison sentence of two years, which was commuted to a year and a day. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary.
The presidential-clemency table in the 1921 Senate amnesty hearings records a nominal sentence listed with the printed date January 17, 1917: Two years. Commuted July 17, 1920 to one year and one day; the Attorney General questioned whether he knew what was in the article he was paid to print and distribute. 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. The printed date precedes the Espionage Act and remains a source chronology problem; it is not entered as an exact sentencing date. Duration audit: Kohn entry 37 says two-year sentence commuted to one year and one day and Leavenworth imprisonment; it gives no actual endpoints or duration. Its classified evidence has no actual periods, durations or served-term evidence. Twelve months is an unsupported nominal-term approximation. 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 191.
