Biography
Herman Rohde was a German-born farmer prosecuted for Montana state sedition in Custer County. The original prison intake form records a four-to-six-year sentence on June 11, 1918 and admission to Deer Lodge on June 14. The form’s imposed term corrects the previously stated four-to-eight-year range. Independently sourced records place his release on April 17, 1921; the intake form itself supplies no discharge.
The original Montana State Prison descriptive intake form records actual receipt at Deer Lodge on 1918-06-14 and sentencing on 1918-06-11 in the Custer County state sedition case, with an imposed term of four to six 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=14
The original Montana State Prison descriptive intake form records the sentence date as 1918-06-14 and records the plea/trial response as: Did not plead guilty; stood trial. This sentencing entry is separate from receipt at the penitentiary.
