MAGSAYSAY, Pedro §Pedro the Yancer)
Magsaysay, a l\0-year-old Filipino meteran of the U. 5, Navy, was em-
ployed as a fruit and cotton picker on a vineyard near Selma, Calif.
On Nove 15, 1929, he laid in ambush for a fellow worker, Alejandro
Pisigan and when Pisigan passed, he shot him twelve times with a
small caliber rifle, cut his throat with a grape knife and broke his
back and crushed his skull with a shovel. He then dug a shallow
grave, wrapped Pisigan who was not yet dead in same burlap and buriLe
him alive. Pisigan's friends were worried about his absence and be~
gan searching for him. On Dec. 2, they disvovered the body and Mag-
saysay, who had preveiously qurreled with Pisigan, was taken into
custody. He admitted the killing and justified it on the grounds
that Pisigan was a "bad man" and infected with syphilis. Convicted
of the murder and sentenced to hang, Magsaysay then claimed that
the killing was self-defense and he received seven reprieves, de-
laying his execution until Nov. 13, 1931, when he was hanged at San
Quentin. Magsaysay was very devoted to his pet fox terrier and, on
the night m& before his execution he changed his will,kx leaving the
$800 that had accumlated from his V“terans' Administration checks
to the California Humane Society.
MAGSAYSAY, Pedro $Pedro the Yancer)
Magsaysay, a 0-year-old Filipino meteran of the U. 5, Navy, was em-
ployed as a fruit and cotton picker on a vineyard near Selma, Calif.
On Nove 15, 1929, he laid in ambush for a fellow worker, Alejandro
Pisigan and when Pisigan passed, he shot him twelve times with a
small caliber rifle, cut his throat with a grape knife and broke his
back and crushed his skull with a shovel. He then dug a shallow
grave, wrapped Pisigan who was not yet dead in same burlap and buried
him alive. Pisigan’s friends were worried about his absence and be~
gan searching for him. On Dec. 2, they disvovered the body and Mag-
saysay, who had preveiously qurreled with Pisigan, was taken into
custody. He admitted the killing and justified it on the grounds
that Pisigan was a "bad man" and infected with syphilis. Convicted
of the murder and sentenced to hang, Magsaysay then claimed that
the killing was self-defense and he received seven reprieves, de-
laying his execution until Nov. 13, 1931, when he was hanged at San
Quentin. Magsaysay was very devoted to his pet fox terrier and, on
the night m@ before his execution he changed his will,k leaving the
$800 that had accumlated from his V“terans' Administration checks
to the California Humane Society.
MAGSAYSAY, Pedro $Pedro the Yancer)
Magsaysay, a l0-year-old Filipino meteran of the U. 5, Navy, was em-
ployed as a fruit and cotton picker on a vineyard near Selma, Calif.
On Nov. 15, 1929, he laid in ambush for a fellow worker, Alejandro
Pisigan and when Pisigan passed, he shot him twelve times with a
small caliber rifle, cut his throat with a grape knife and broke his
back and crushed his skull with a shovel. He then dug a shallow
grave, wrapped Pisigan who was not yet dead in some burlap and buried
him all Pisigan's friends were worried about his absence and be~
gan searching for him, On Dec. 2, they disvovered the body and Mag-
saysay, who had preveiously qurreled with Pisigan, was taken into
custody. He admitted the killing and justified it on the grounds
that Pisigan was a "bad man" and infected with syphilis. Convicted
of the murder and sentenced to hang, Magaaysay then claimed that
the killing was self-defense and he received seven reprieves, de~
laying his execution until Nov. 13, 1931, when he was hanged at San
Quentin, Magsaysay was very devoted to his pet fox terrier and, on
the night mf before his execution he changed his will,t leaving the
$800 that had accumlated from his V4terans' Administration checks
to the California Humane Society.
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