The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-16
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 FAIRBANKS, AIS,
Alaskan Murderer Pays S,l- preme Penalty for Crime
 After Many Reprieves.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska April 16.- Mailo Segura has paid the supreme penalty for the murder of Geol ge Riley on Otter Creek in the Iditarod district in the spring of 1918.
 The murderer first condemned to die October 4, 1918, and five times reprieved was hanged from an i'm. Bank building here at :39 o'clock yesterday afternoon and a few min utes later was pronounced dead
 He walked unflinchingly to the scaffold, attended by priest, but tainted when his feet struck the sounding boards. After he had been revived he was strapped to the board and raised upright for hanging. A mumbled request for more of that whiskey" were his last words.
 r. History of Crime
 ~ The crime for which Segura was found guilty was declared to be wholly without. excuse, justification or any mitigating circumstances 'NAi1y NiS IobbuCtiAlS thtCioIFt ilil- ing operations on Otter Creek in the Iditarod country and had become heavily involved financially. Segura was a wood chopper and to him Riley was indebted little less than $500. A further sum was to become due to Segura and his partners in Aug ust of 1918. Segura wanted a state ment from Riley showing that the amount already due him and to be- come due him and his partners in August was due him (Segura) alone Such a statement Riley declined to give him until such time as Segura would bring his partners to the of flee and have d complete understand or until he could produce a state ment signed by his partners show ing that he was entitled to receive all the partnership funds. At this time Segura had in the Bank of Idit- arod about $500, which he drew out four days before he shot Riley.
 Riley Is Found Dead
 On the morning of the murder Se- gura went to Riley's office and not finding him there went to a shop on He stood around for quite a while until the Workmen who were helping Riley went back into the shop. Soon shots were heard and the men upon rushing out found Riley dead. Segura ran short distance and threw away his gun An alarm was given and the men on the dredge, which was working a short distance away, quit their work and spreading out, closed in upon Segura, who. seeing escape was impossible, threw up his hands and said me no kill no more" He was taken into custody and helds to the Grand Jury
 At the special June, 1918 term of Court at Flat. he was indicted and his trial set for the Sth day of July, 1918. The trial lasted five days and the jury after being out four hours, brought in a verdict of guilty as charged in the indictment. On the 18th day of July, Judge c. E. Bun nell, who presided at the trial. sen tenced Segura to hang on the 4th day of October, 1918. From this judgment of the Court, Segura sued out a Writ of Error to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco. On October 20, 1919. the Appellate Court rendered it's decis- ion affirming the judgment rendered by Judge Bunnell.
 Third Man Executed
 Mailo Segura was the third man legally executed in the Territory of Alaska Court records of Alaska show that only seven men have been sentenced to pay the death penalty and four of those had their sentenc- es commuted. once or twice just be- fore the time set for the execution. Segura, himself, had been granted four respites by Presidential order. and a final desperate effort was
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