The daily Alaska citizen., 1920-01-28
WILL
 BE SOUGHT FOR
 CONDEMNED MAi1

Sol VD LlFII NA4RP NtI M IsEGUBo EXECUTION SET FOR APRIL END. BUTTE ATTORNEYS
 PREPARING PETITION FOR
 EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY FROM
 PRESIDENT.
 SlJting between two deputy marsh als, Mailo Seguro. condemned mur- derer of J. E. Riley, of Flat yester- day afternoon heard Judge Charles E. Bunnell set April 2nd, next as the day upon which he shall pay the | supreme penalty of death by hang | ing for his crime, unless he shall be- l fore that time be reprieyed or his | sentence cOmmuted by executive l clemency. In a short statement made | by John A. Clark, attorney for Sc was being prepared by Butte, Mont, attorneys seeking Clemency. The lat | ter, it is understood have been em- plOyed by a brother of the con demned man.
 l Just before court convened yester- | day afternoon at ? o'clock, Seguro was prot into the courtroom by Deputy U S. Marshals McMullen and Wood and was seated between them 1 facing the bench He was cleanly shaved and neatly garbed. Except that he was thin to the point of skin and bones and his skin marked | ly pallid, his confinement in the To- 1 cal federal jail has apparently not disagreed with him. Altho quiet, and 1 his demeanor calm, the continual twitching of his hands show the nerv- GUS strain under lhich he labored. When in response l a question from the court as to whether he had any thing to say about the date for the execution, the prisoner arose and stated that he had nothing to say, 1 his attitude indicated that he was near a collapse. His attorney, MT. Clark, told of the preparation of the petition for clemency and requested | the court to fix the date so that full 1 time could be had to allow the pa perS in this connection to reach the outside and be sent to Washington. Assistant United States Attorney E. Coke Hill, for the government, stated that there was no objection to such allowance being made. Shortly after ? o'clock, Judge Bunnell stated that the execution would be carried out on April 2nd. SegurO was then talk en back to the jail
 The details of the" crime are sor- did. It was committed about two years ago in the boiler house at Riley's camp in Flat. Seguro, with three other partners had put in some wood for MT Riley and Seguro had repeatedly attempted to get MT. Riley to make a settlement in full with him saying that he would in turn pay the others. This was refused and he was ! told that he could get statement of his own interest but not that of his partners On the day of the killing, Seguro appeared at the boil CT house were MT. Riley and two of ! his men were working, repairing pipe boiler. Seguro gave a hand with the the work until the two assistants of MT. Riley left and went to nearby 1 tool-house. During the absence of these men the murder was commit ted, Riley was shot three times, twice it is believed while he was standing and the third time after he had fal- ! len to the ground The first shot struck him in the side or back as he was turning away from Seguro.
 The latter was convicted of mur- der In the first degree and sentenced 1 to hang, the date-of the execution being set for last October. Leroy Tozier, who appeared for the defense, secured a writ of error and took the case to the circuit court of appeals at San Francisco. In an opinion handed down by that court recently, the conviction and judgment of the | trial court was affirmed.