FAIRBANKS DAILY NEWS MINER y April 15.1921
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Filed Alaska = NWU
FAIRBANKS DAILY NEWS MINER Uy Aprilels.. 1921
261 FEDERAL 12 = Filed Alaska = NWU
261 FEDERAL 12 = Filed Alaska = NWU
SEGURA, Mailo
Segura, a 36-year-old white man, was a wood-chopper who, with his
partners, worked on Otter Creek in the Iditarod Country near the town
of Flat, Alaska. A man named mm J, &, Riley who had extensive gold
mining operations in the area and who was over-extended financially
owed Segura $300 which was due and an additional sum that was to be-~
come due in August, 1918, Segura had requested pament of the amount
due on a number of oceasions and Riley would neither pay nor give a
written agreement to do so even though he verbally stated his inten-
tions of paying the bills, Harly in May, 1918, Segura went to the
mining camp and requested that Riley either pay him or give him a
written assurance that he would pay in August. Segura asked that the
asgreement make no mention of his partners and Riley refused to give
it unelss Segura would bring his partners there and they all reach an
agreement. On May 5, Segura returned and shot Riley in the back three
times, xkk killing him, He threw the gun down and ran a short distance
before he was surrounded and taken into custody by the miners, He was
tried, convicted and sentenced to die in the Federal Court at Fairbanks
and when the Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction and the
President refused to commte the sentence, he was hanged there on
April 15, 1921,
SEGURA, Mailo
Segura, a 36-year-old white man, was a wood-chopper who, with his
partners, worked on Otter Creek in the Iditarod Country near the town
of Flat, Alaska, A man named f# J. i, Riley who had extensive gold
mining operations in the area and who was over-extended financially
owed Segura $300 which was due and an additional sum that was to be-
come due in August, 1918, Segura had requested pament of the amount
due on a number of oceasions and Riley would neither pay nor give a
written agreement to do so even though he verbally stated his inten-
tions of paying the bills, Early in May, 1918, Segura went to the
mining camp and requested that Riley either pay him or give him a
written assurance that he would pay in August. Segura asked that the
asgreement make no mention of his partners and Riley refused to give
it unelss Segura would bring his partners there and they all reach an
agreement. On May 5, Segura returned and shot Riley in the back three
times, xkt killing him. He threw the gun down and ran a short distance
before he was surrounded and taken into custody by the miners, He was
tried, convicted and sentenced to die in the Federal Court at Fairbanks
and when the Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction and the
President refused to commte the sentence, he was hanged there on
April 19, 1921,
SEGURA, Mailo
Segura, a 36-year-old white man, was a wood-chopper who, with his
partners, worked on Otter Creek in the Iditarod Country near the town
of Flat, Alaska, A man named fm J. #, Riley who had extensive gold
mining operations in the area and who was ov:
owed Segura $300 which was due
come due in August, 1918,
due on a number of oceasions
written agreement to do so ev
tions of paying the bills,
or give him a
Segura asked that the
partners and Riley refused to give
it unelss Segura would bring his partners there and they all reach an
agreement. On May 5, Segura returned and shot Riley in the back three
tines, xt killing him, He threw the gun down and ran a short distanod
before he was surrounded and taken into custody by the miners, He was
tried, convicted and sentenced to die in the Federal Court at Fairbanks
and when the Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction and the
President refused to commte the sentence, he was hanged there on
April 15, 1921,
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