Collection:
Webb Miller
Date:
1916
Description:
B/w photographic postcard of man at left being executed by men on right outside an adobe building shooting him Along lower front edge: "Triple Execution in Mexico." Written in pen on back: "Taken just as the bullet hit the poor fellow. See how stiff he is —— just about to fall."
Object ID:
2007—0012.0011
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
Other #:
P005405
Photographer:
W. H. Horne Co. El Paso, Texas
Print Size:
5.5 x 3.5"
Search Terms:
Webb Miller
Notes:
Webb Miller, born in 1891 in Sumnerville/Pokagon, graduate of Dowagiac High School around 1910. Miller went on to become a journalist in Chicago, covered the Pancho Villa insurrection at the Mexican border in 1915 and landed a job at United Press. Stayed with UP and covered World War I, Ghandi, Etheopian War, Spanish Civil War and came to head UP Europe. Died mysterious death in 1940. Collection from donor's niece, who received the collection from Webb Miller's daughter—in—law, Helene Miller.
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triple excution in Mexico
triple excution in Mexico