Biography
Rudolph Peterson was a laborer from Yakima, Washington. Rudolph Peterson was sentenced to three years in prison. He served in McNeil Island Penitentiary. According to the Department of Justice, Peterson was convicted because he was "sitting around... with his fellow workmen and, in the course of a discussion about liberty bonds, advised against their purchase. " Peterson went to trial within eighteen hours of his arrest andhadno time to obtain witnesses in his defense.
The Eastern District of Washington row records three years, commuted April 22, 1919 to one year and one day, followed by actual departure at expiration on September 11, 1919. The table separately identifies sentencing, nominal judgment and circumstances of execution; no new jail admission or actual-service counter is inferred. The inherited twelve-month actual-service override is not supported by the nominal or commuted term and is removed; actual total custody remains unknown.
1921 Senate amnesty hearings, printed page 100 (PDF page 107).
The presidential-clemency table in the 1921 Senate amnesty hearings records a sentence imposed November 22, 1918: Three years at McNeil Island. Commuted April 22, 1919 to one year and one day. A pardon, commutation, nominal expiration or parole eligibility is not itself evidence of the day of physical release; the imposed or reduced term is not a measured time served.
Amnesty and Pardon for Political Prisoners, 1921 Senate hearings, printed page 182.
