' EXECUTION OF
SEGURO IS SET
FOR APRIL 2
Calmly, quietly and seriously, with
out apparent bravada, Maillo Seguro,
in the federal court at Fairbanks, for
the second time in his life heard the
day of his death set by tlie court. This
time it is for Friday, April 2.
Before refixing the date of execu
tion, which was passed up on October
last because of the appeal in the case,
Federal Judge Bunnel asked if Seguro
or anyone repesenting him had any
thing to say in the matter, and Attor
ney John Clark addressed the court.
Mr. Clark stated that he was not
Seguro’s attorney in the case, but that
£ recently he had received from a Buttte,
Mont., legal firm a request to repre
sent them, they having been retained
by Seguro’s brother, who was an|
American soldier in the late world
war, a request that he endeavor to
obtain executive clemency for Seguro;
that Mr. Clark had prepared the nec
essary papers or memoranda in the
case and had mailed them to the
Butte firm, but that in the state of
the mails here much time might elapse
in their getting action, and he asked
* for as much time as the court felt
inclined to give, sixty days at least.
Seguro was then asked if he had
anything to say, and answered that he
had not. The court then fixed the
sentence to be executed on Friday,
April 2, and gave the original copy of
the order to the clerk for transmis
sion to the United States marshal and
the duplicate to the clerk for the
court files.
Basis of Appeal
The basis of the appeal for clem
ency is upon the testimony of Seguro
that he believed he was acting in self
defense; that when he asked Riley for
a settlement on the fatal day Riley
answered that he would “give him a
few shells,” and that Riley thereupon
thrust his hand into the inside pocket'
of the jumper he was wearing and
half turned toward Seguro, who then
shot him; that Riley went down be
hind a pile of pipe that was in the
boiler house, and Seguro, not know
ing whether he had shot Riley or
* whether Riley was about to fire from
behind the pipe, shot twice more;
that at Flat, where the trial was held,
sentiment was strongly for Seguro’s
Conviction, and the defense had no
chance; that when Seguro was herded
in the Riley office under guard while
awaiting the arrival of the marshal,
he was “covered” with two guns; that
the presence of one of the guns ac
counted for by an employe in the
Riley offices, who gave it to the guard
from beneath the counter in the of
fice; that the presence of the second
revolver was not accounted for, and
that the guard who held it on Seguro
was in Iditarod at the time of the trial
in Flat, and was not called to the
trial; that the undershirt and shirt
through which the Seguro bullet
passed into Riley’s body were pro
^ duced in evidence at the trial, but
that the jumper which was over them
was not produced; that the jumper
could have and probably did contain
a gun which Riley was about to use
upon Seguro, and that the second gun
which the guard in Riley’s office held,
the same man being one who helped
carry the body, jumper and all, from
the place where Riley was shot, came
out of the pocket of Riley’s jumper,
and that if Seguro hadn’t shot Riley
first Riley would have shot Seguro.
This is the base of the appeal for ex
ecutive clemency the Butte attorneys
will make at Washington.
The Crime
Maillo Seguro killed J. E. (“George”)
Riley at Flat two years ago. Seguro
had furnished wood for Riley’s
dredging company; the company was
in bankruptcy proceedings and its af
fairs were being settled by the court,
and Seguro could not get his mon^y
and could not understand why, not be
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ing familiar with courts and their rules
and delays. He threatened Riley and
notified Riley that he would come
after him, but Riley was so^full of
animal courage that he had not the
power/ to be afraid of anything, and
was therefore foolhardy. Seguro
came to Riley in the boiler house
where Riley was working and they
were alone. To Seguro’s demand for
money Riley made a short answer and
turned his back upon Seguro and
started about his work, whereupon Se
guro shot him in the back, killing
him. Riley did not live long enough
tb know what had happened to him.
(This is the prosecution’s story, al
though Riley was shot in the side.)
Leroy Tozier procured a stay of ex
ecution while he carried the case to a
higher court. The higher court af
firmed the decision of Judge Bunnell,
and as Seguro is out of funds and
Tozier otherwise occupied, the case
has not been further appealed.
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