Biography
John Ruck was from Helena, Montana. John Ruck began serving a three- to six-year prison sentence on April 16, 1918.
The original Montana State Prison descriptive intake form records actual receipt at Deer Lodge on 1918-04-16 and sentencing on 1918-04-15 in the Broadwater County state sedition case, with an imposed term of three 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=15
The original Montana State Prison descriptive intake form records the sentence date as 1918-04-15 and records the plea/trial response as: Guilty. This sentencing entry is separate from receipt at the penitentiary.
