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Show CONVICTED OF TREASON Col. Giera Sentenced by Courtmartial and Executed Ex-ecuted in Mexico San Francisco lan :: Word was received her.- today of tbe execution In Mexico City. December 'S-'., of P. L E. Del Pungo Utera, who had a meteoric me-teoric career In San Francisco financial finan-cial circles during a period of ten j ears centering on the fire of 1006 The Information received in a private pri-vate letter, was to the effect that Giera. alter accepting a colonelcy in one of Madero's regiments, became In-1 timate with Felix Dia? and was cap-tured cap-tured In lia" ranks when ihe latter's revolution dissolved at Vera Cruz. A 1 court martial convicted Giera of high treason, the letter Bays and he was I blindfolded and shot with his back to the wall Giera tame here from Germany. twelve vears ago, bringing his bride, the daughter of a noble Herman fam-i fly He made a fortune in the oper-, iflon of a tannery, which he sold just in time to invest the proceeds In San I Francisco real estate before the fire He then engaged handling nearby country real estate and plied up a fortune estimated at $7t 00 despite the fact that he was arretted '-evenl time of charges of fraud connected with his transactions He always est aped conviction. About a year a hi ,vifp returned in Ocrraany and he enlisted nn ' Madero who twice complimented him for bravery. |