Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-20
PLOT TO KILL D|Az
AND TAKE ALL ARMS
Startling Revelations Made at
MexicanS' Trial.
TO SEIZE CUSTOM HOUSE
1900 Rifles in the Basement Of q
Store at Cananea.
SPRING TINE SET FOR UPRISING
Fictitious Names Were to Be Used and
There Were Warnings Issued
Against United States.
TO SEIZE CUSTOM HOUSE
1900 Rifles in the Basement Of q
Store at Cananea.
SPRING TINE SET FOR UPRISING

special Dispatch. to The Star.
Ell PASO. Tex. September 20.-The hear
ing in the cases Of the alleged Mexican rev.
olutionists at Douglas, Ariz.. yesterday, de-
veloped plot to take Cananea, capture
Col. w. c. Greene's arms, and with these
and the soldiers at Cananea, whom the rev.
olutionists hope to convert, to begin their
march on the Mexican capital, to execute
the tyrant, Diaz." These and other sensa-
tional features were brought out before
United States Commissioner E. A. Sames at
Douglas. All letters taken from the pris-
oners were made public. and they contain
threats against the head of the Mexican
nation and plots for his assassination.
How the rsvolutionists prepared for the
expedition. and elected officers to lead them,
was told when Trinidad vasquez took the
stand. He said that Tomas Espinosa had
already been appointed chief Of the expedi-
ton by the Toronto junta and that other
officers were elected. The plan was to arm
themselves and go first to Aqua Prieta and
capture the custom house where arms and
ammunition were stored. and then march
on to Verde and Cananea.
What Junta Should Do.
Jesus Hernandez. according to the wit
ness. attended a junta meeting on Septem-
Der 3. He came for advice as to what the
junta at Cananea should do. The Cananea
junta feared that Gen. Torres and his SOL
diers would raid them and take their con-
cealed arMs Hernandez wanted advice as
to whether his junta should resist if the
attack were made.
A letter dated Toronto. August Q, 1906,
to Espinosa, signed by r. Flores Magon,
detailed the plans of the revolution against
Cananea. The letter said that care should
be taken as to the neutrality laws of the
United States, and that armed patriots
should be sent across the line secretly, and
that every care should be taken to keep
hidden the day for the movement, which
would be selected in short time.
Magon declared that the junta had re-
port that Col Greene had 1900 rifles in the
basement Of store at Cananea, and that
it was necessary to seize the guns by sur
prise before Greene and his men could get
the arms and protect themselves.
1T is necessary to take-eare not to injure
the Americans and direct all blows at the
tyrant Diaz. Once the rules are struck
down, then we can get rid of the foreign
ers. was the closing paragraph. all of the
discriminating letters were mailed from ST.
Louis, and every one Of them asked for
money. - o.
Several of them said that money should
be borrowed for the cause. to be paid back
by the government when the revolution had
succeeded r. Flores Magon signed all the
letters as president of the liberal party,
and most Of them are also signed by Lib
erado Rivera, vice president.
Agents in Mexico.
In several letters they suggest that the
revolutionists use fictitious names and in
one of them Magon says to address him as
Mr. A. w. Skirrell, St. Louis, Mo-, IT, s. A.
AS an evidence that the junta had agents
in Mexico several of the letters introduced
in evidence were in envelopes bearing Mex
lean stamps. Magon said they were re-
mailed to keep from arousing suspicion
coming to the men in Douglas.
One such letter was dated st. Louis
September 1, and addressed to Gabriel
Ruiba. 1t was signed by Rivera. and ad-
vised the junta to watch closely for gov
eminent SPIES"
This came just before United States off,
GERS made the arrests and is taken to indi-
cate that Magon had advance knowledge of
what was coming.
One of the credentials sent to a member
of the junta contained the following:
"If we keep intact our vigor and en-
thusiasm of today we will be sure Of see
ing our tyrants bite the dust and to con-
template in the paternal horizon the bril-
liancy of gay spring of liberty and
Justice
The credentials also showed that the gen.
eraI uprising was to take place before next
spring.