Biography
Walter Heynacher was from Aberdeen, South Dakota. Walter Heynacher was sentenced to five years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary.
The presidential-clemency table in the 1921 Senate amnesty hearings records a sentence imposed May 15, 1918: Five years at Leavenworth; appeal affirmed. Commuted May 24, 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. Duration audit: Kohn entry 170 identifies Leavenworth imprisonment but supplies no actual endpoints or duration. The Senate five-year sentence reduced to one year and one day on May 24, 1919 is nominal, not twelve months actually served. Unsupported exact counters are removed; no completed total is inferred from the imposed or commuted sentence.
Amnesty and Pardon for Political Prisoners, 1921 Senate hearings, printed page 185.
