Biography
Myra Dunton was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau’s March 1919 compilation War-Time Prosecutions and Mob Violence as a Socialist prosecuted for alleged seditious utterances in Sacramento, California. The official 1921 Senate amnesty table records a sentence of forty days in jail and a $150 fine imposed June 27, 1918. Her actual prison admission, release date and time served are not established by these sentencing records.
The visually aligned Myra Dunton row in the official 1921 Senate table records June 27, 1918, forty days in jail and a $150 fine. The fine is attributed to this Senate table rather than to the earlier NCLB compilation. Neither the current raw record (whose body is empty) nor the Senate row independently establishes physical admission on June 27 or release on August 6. Those inherited endpoints exactly reproduce the nominal forty-day sentence and are removed, along with the forty-day actual-service counter. The verified sentencing date and imposed term are preserved; actual custody duration remains unknown.
1921 Senate amnesty hearings, printed page 88 (PDF page 95).
