MILLER, Fred
Miller, a 33-year-old black man, was living in Simi, Ventura Co.,
Calif,, where he fell in love with a young Mexican girl, Josie Rod-
riguez. When he heard that Miss Rodriguez planned to marry a Mexi-
can boy in her neighborhood, he became enraged with jealousy and
wrote her several threatening letters which she refused to heed,
One night he entered her house and went to the bedroom where she and
her aged grandmother were sleeping. He first tried to kill the old
woman by cutting her throat. He was unsuccessful as she resisted,
but her hand was nearly severed from her arm, He then went to the
bed where Miss Rodriguez lay, paralyzed with fear, grabbed her by
the hair and held her head up as he fired a bullet into her brain,
Miller confessed to the murder but he Subsequently repudiated his
confession and, after his trial and conviction, his life was pro-
longed by several respites which his attorneys obtained as they
battled for his life through the courts, He was finally hanged at
van Quentin on August 9, 1918,
Ventura WEEKLY POST, Ventura, California, August 16, 1918, Page 2,
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MILLER, Fred
Miller, a 33-year-old black man, was living in Simi, Ventura Co.,
Calif., where he fell in love with a young Mexican girl, Josie Rod-
riguez. When he heard that Miss Rodriguez planned to marry a Mexi-
can boy in her neighborhood, he became enraged with jealousy and
wrote her several threatening letters which she refused to heed,
One night he entered her house and went to the bedroom where she and
her aged grandmother were sleeping. He first tried to kill the old
woman by cutting her throat. He was unsuccessful as she resisted,
but her hand was nearly severed from her arm, He then went to the
bed where Miss Rodriguez lay, paralyzed with fear, grabbed her by
the hair and held her head up as he fired a bullet into her brain,
Miller confessed to the murder but he subsequently repudiated his
confession and, after his trial and conviction, his life was pro-
longed by several respites which his attorneys obtained as they ;
battled for his life through the courts. He was finally hanged at
San Quentin on August 9, 1918,
Ventura WEEKLY POST, Ventura, California, August 16, 1918.) Page 2.
MILLER, Fred
Miller, a 33-year-old black man, was living in Simi, Ventura Co.,
Calif., where he fell in love with a young Mexican girl, Josie Rod-
riguez. When he heard that Miss Rodriguez planned to marry a Mexi-
can boy in her neighborhood, he became enraged with jealousy and
wrote her several threatening letters which she refused to heed,
One night he entered her house and went to the bedroom where she and
her aged grandmother were sleeping. He first tried to kill the old
woman by cutting her throat.
Ventura WEEKLY POST, Ventura, California, August 16, 1918, Page 2.
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