Pete Ervik
Biography
Pete Ervik, also recorded as Peter Ervik, was a Norwegian-born laborer prosecuted under Montana state sedition law in Superior, Mineral County. His signed intake record establishes receipt at Deer Lodge on April 25, 1918 following a two-to-four-year sentence. That is penitentiary admission, not a verified initial arrest date.
The signed prison intake form records receipt at Deer Lodge on April 25, 1918, and sentencing that same day to two to four years. It describes Ervik as a thirty-six-year-old Norwegian-born laborer prosecuted in Superior, Mineral County. The duplicate form is the same admission. This corrects the previously stored April 16 penitentiary date; it does not establish an earlier arrest or new discharge. Source: https://clcowgill.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/a-m.pdf#page=10
Portrait: rectangular crop from the individually identified historical photograph, original PDF page 10. Photographer not credited. Source: https://clcowgill.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/a-m.pdf#page=10.
