Michael Rizielo

Michael Rizielo, also called Red-Nosed Mike, was hanged at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, according to a brief July 1889 item in the Emmons County Record. The item gives no date for the hanging and does not say where in the jail it happened. A second item from the same paper, in July 1889, reports a man called Red Nosed Mike hanged at Wilkes-Barre, with his name garbled in the scanned text.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: 1889 newspaper report from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (reporters).

Sources (2)

• Emmons County Record, July 5, 1889, page 2 Emmons County Record, July 5, 1889
• Emmons County Record, July 19, 1889, page 2 Emmons County Record, July 19, 1889