Haines County AK Archives News.....SELF DEFENSE PLEA WINS. July 17, 1911
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ALASKA CITIZEN (Fairbanks, Alaska), Monday, July 17, 1911,  P. 1 July 17, 1911
"SELF DEFENSE PLEA WINS.  ROSEBURG, June 9. -- Roy McClellen, who shot and 
killed Ben Mahon, a former resident of Haines, Alaska, was acquitted by the 
trial jury, and released from jail Saturday.  McClellen's plea was self 
defense.  The homicide occurred on one of the principal streets of the city 
while McClellen was returning from a theater, escorting Mrs. Lillian Speicher, 
a divorcee, with whom Mahon was infatuated.  Mahon accosted the couple in a 
menacing manner so McClellen said, and he shot him four times with a 25-
calibre automatic pistol.  A larger pistol of similar pattern was found in on 
of the Mahon's hip pockets."

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