Biography
Ray Halvey was a forty-eight-year-old Nebraska-born farmer and boilermaker prosecuted for sedition in the Melrose, Silver Bow County case. The Montana State Prison intake form records sentencing on January 13, 1919 to three to six years and actual receipt at Deer Lodge on January 19. His mother was Alice Halvey of Omaha. A handwritten April 19, 1923 expiration entry is a nominal sentence calculation, not proof that he remained imprisoned until then. No actual discharge or complete custody duration is established. Montana State Prison descriptive intake forms, A–M, 1918–1919, original PDF page 15. Source: https://clcowgill.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/a-m.pdf#page=15
Portrait: rectangular crop from the individually identified historical photograph, original PDF page 15. Photographer not credited. Source: https://clcowgill.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/a-m.pdf#page=15.
