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- [S7707] Find a Grave: MILLER George E 1895-1954, George Everett Miller.
- Birth: 22 Feb 1895, Gold Hill, Storey County, Nevada - Death: 17 Sep 1954 (aged 59) Carson City, Carson City, Nevada - Burial: Lone Mountain Cemetery, Carson City, Carson City, Nevada - Plot: 1B-2
State Prison Guard killed during a excape attempt of three inmates at the Nevada State prison.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13196012/george-everett-miller
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Correctional Officer George E. Miller
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1900 United States Federal Census
Year: 1900; Census Place: Fair Oaks, San Joaquin, California; Roll: 108; Page: 16A; Enumeration District: 0106; FHL microfilm: 1240108 |
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U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
The National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Draft Registration Cards for Fourth Registration for Nevada, 04/27/1942 - 04/27/1942; NAI Number: 7644740; Record Group Title: Records of the Selective Service System; Record Group Number: 147 |
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1950 United States Federal Census
United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Carson, Ormsby, Neva |
- [S1598] Newspapers.com: Obituary of George E Miller • Nevada State Journal - Sep1954, (Name: Nevada State Journal; Location: Reno, Nevada; Date: 19 Sep 1954;), PRISON GUARD'S FUNERAL PLANNED.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35170882/nevada_state_journal/?xid=637
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Obituary-MILLER George E
Obituary of GEORGE EVERETT MILLER -- Newspapers.com - Nevada State Journal - 19 Sep 1954 - Page 12 |
- [S1597] Newspapers.com: Death (Murder) of MILLER George • Nevada State Journal - Sep 1954, (Name: Nevada State Journal; Location: Reno, Nevada; Date: 18 Sep 1954;), GUARD DIES AS PRISON BREAK FAILS.
PICKUP TRUCK USED TO RUN THROUGH GATE
• Convicted Kidnapper Found Hiding in Rocks
• Driver-guard at the Nevada state prison was killed today in a hail of gunfire when he was forced by three desperate convicts to crash a pickup truck through the prison gates but each of the prisoners was captured later by a posse of more than 50 officers.
Two of them meekly gave themselves up after they were at large less than three hours and the third kidnaper Gene Liebig, 20 was captured at 5 pm by two Carson City police officers and a pair of highway patrolmen.
• ‘DON'T SHOOT’ •
Carson City police officer James Bender said he called to the other three men when he thought he heard a noise under two huge boulders: “I’m going to shoot a few shots under that rock” Liebig replied “Don’t shoot I’m coming out!"
The driver-guard, 59-year-old George Miller of Carson City was found shot to death in the light milk truck in which the trio forced him to crash out of the prison yard. The vehicle abandoned was found by Warden Art Bernard and Guard Captain Harry Fletcher about a half mile east of the prison.
Liebig was not wounded as had been believed earlier.
Bender said the other three officers Mike de Ruyter of Carson City and state highway patrolmen Stan Payton and Everett Silva closed in to help “take Liebig.”
The convicted kidnaper had dug a small hole between the large rocks and had almost completely buried himself. He was captured about half a mile nearer the prison than the spot where the other two convicts gave up about 11 am.
Bernard said he would be placed in solitary confinement as soon as “he as checked back in.” Asked if murder charges would be filed against the trio the warden replied, “They will if I can help it.”
Placed in solitary immediately after they were captured about a mile from the prison this morning were Don H Gulovsen 24, and William R Burman 22, who gave themselves up to Guard William Kelley and John Supera, a prison clerk who joined the posse.
• WASHOE SHERIFF AIDS •
Sheriff C W Young said the Washoe county sheriff’s aero squadron dispatched four planes to aid in the search.
The planes were piloted by Joe Williams, Sherman Newton, Ross Barengo, and Marty Kronberg. At least one was in the air over the search scene at all times between 10 am and 5 pm.
Leibig, a Cambridge Minn youth, was seriously wounded in a police chase last December. Then he and his cousin Charles Liebig, 30 crashed through a roadblock in Pershing county 90 miles east of Reno, after a kidnaping, robbery, and stolen car spree throughout northern Nevada. The elder Leibig was killed by police bullets.
Bernard said he "wouldn’t speculate until after the inquest” as to who actually fired the fatal shot. However he added that he believed neither Miller nor any of the three convicts was armed.
Ormsby county deputy sheriff Erwin Butner, who photographed Miller's body said the bullet which I killed him first smashed the rear window of the truck. He added it entered Miller's skull in a downward direction and penetrated his cheek.
The warden gave orders to the guards to fire at prisoners who speed past the gates in a vehicle after Roy Houx, a convicted slayer, dashed out of the institution in a car last year.
Bernard said he presumed the trio ran out a kitchen door and commandeered Miller’s truck while breakfast was being served about 8 am to 350 inmates. He declared he did not believe there were any other prisoners in the yard at that time.
Gulovsen and Burman were taken by Kelly and Supera after guard Jack Murray and an unidentified Indian tracker spotted them from a distance on Rocky Hill, a rock and boulder-spotted knoll on the Hendershot ranch. The pair had at large less than three hours.
Fletcher reported Gulovsen had been "a trouble maker" at the Oregon state prison at Salem before he was convicted in Reno Oct. 10, 1953 on fraudulent check charges.
Washoe county sheriff's officers remembered Gulovsen as a "tough customer." They recalled that he had bragged about his "tough" record at the Oregon state prison.
Burman, convicted of robbery in county Oct. 8, 1952, attempted unsuccessfully to overpower a guard in an escape attempt early this year.
Liebig was convicted of second degree burglary after he recovered from gunshot wounds suffered in the police chase late last year.
Fletcher described each of the three convicts as "tough boys," adding that each was a maximum security prisoner.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35170137/nevada_state_journal/?xid=637
- [S8179] Find a Grave: MILLER Luella Kernek 1867-1960, Luella Synthia Miller Miller Kernek.
- [S8177] Find a Grave: ROCHON Dorothy Miller 1898-1981, Dorothy May Rochon Miller.
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