Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-24
MEXICAN REVOLUTIoNISTS FACE
ExTRADITIoN
FIFTYTHoUsAND DOLLARS PRICE
on LEADERS, HEAD
Inciters of cananea Riots Captured by
Secret Service Men and Local
Detectives After Ter
rifle Fight

DOrne QUICK 1ru1t. ACllHB upon tHe III
formation published by The Herald re"
Gently the Mexican ambassador at Wash
ington, Senior Creel, gave directions for
the arrest of every member of the junta
to be found in Los Angeles, and these
arrests were made last night by Thomas
Furlong, head of the secret service at st.
Louis, and corps of operators, aided by
local Detectives Talamantes and Louis
and Tom Rico
These are the prisoners taken and the
crimes for which they are wanted:
Ricardo Flores Magon, president of the
junta arch revolutionist, charged by the
Mexican government with murder high
treason and conspiracy, for whom re-
ward is standing of $4,000, dead or alive.
Antonio Ignacio Villarial secretary Of
the junta, revolutionist and conspirator,
charged with murder, treason and escape
from prison. Reward Of $4,000, dead or
alive.
I.ibrado Revira, revolutionist and con-
spirator, charged with murder and trea-
son. Reward of $500, dead or alive.
Modesto Diaz, revolutionist and con-
spirator, charged with criminal libel and
slander.
One Offense to Each
The warrants on which these men were
arrested charge them with but one
crime each for which they can be taken
from the Jurisdiction of the local courts
and turned over to the authorities of the
federal government and by them examined
and held for extradition by the Mexican
government.
Magon is wanted for murder in Sonora,
it being charged that he inspired and or
dered the international riot at Cananea in
which several Mexicans and Americans
were killed at the copper mines of Col.
w. G. Greene.
Antonio Ignacio Villarial is charged with
being an escaped convict from the Mexl-
can prison at Sonora.
Librado Revira, professor of languages
at the University of San Luis Potosi, is
charged with having deserted his wife and
children and left them care on the
state He is also charged with being one
of the conspirators who fomented the
trouble at Cananea and the man who
wrote the order for the Mexican poems to
rise in that section, which they obeyed.
Modesto Diaz, the editor of the Revolu-
cion, the junta paper published at $50 San
Fernando street in this city, is charged
with having printed and published in the
state of Sonora, Mexico, a gross criminal
libel and slander on Porforio qDiaz, presi-
dent of Mexico, and upon several other
citizens and officials of that state.
Death the Penalty
All of these are felonies in Mexico,
punishable by Imprisonment in the state
penitentiaries, but the real charges
against them are murder and treason,
which means in the vernacular of the
country, "a brick wall at sunrise and
file of five soldiers
That these prisoners realized the ulti-
mate fate that would be theirs when once
landed firmly in the tolls of the Mexican
law is evidenced by the desperate battle
which they put up when arrested by the
secret service men and detectives.
Magon, Villarial and Revira were cap
tured in little cottage at 113 East Pico
Street. For several days the local de-
tectives and two of Furlongs operators
have been watching the house and see
ing that the men did not take alarm and
escape.
In the meantime the papers in the case
were being prepared, and when all was
ready Furlong, accompanied by Talaman-
tes and the Ricos, went to the house.
The place was surrounded and the chief
officers then entered.
All three men were found in a rear
room of the place, but for more than an
hour they battled with the officers for
their liberty Acting under instructions
from Ambassador Creel through Furlong
the officers aimed only to capture their
men. They did not desire to either kill
or wound them and for that reason the
battle was conducted by them with fists
and clubs.
Battle Desperate
The Mexicans used knives, chairs, hatch
cts, anything that came handy in their
struggle to overpower the men who were
attempting to take them prisoners.
Full well they realized that they were
being arrested by. order of the Mexican
government, for they cried repeatedly
H., A~IrA ton
alive.
Repeatedly knocked down, Ricardo
Magon struggled to his feet sometimes
with two officers clinging to him, and
threw them off. A pair of handouts
placed on his wrists were snapped like
twine, and again he battled with the Of
ficers. Big, magnificent, in his strength
and power, he fought like demon at
bayy and for an hour he kept the police
active. Finally he was floored by bow
on the point of the jaw, and before he
could rise he was wrapped in the coils
of big rope and found himself helpless
Villaral, like Magon, is a large man
with great muscular power and he fought
savagely against capture. Through three
rooms, overturning furniture, casting
chairs and tables aside and using them
for weapons of offense and defense, he
fought Tom Rico and two of the eastern
Officers, out ike MS COlpdtIloli Ao was
finally fioored and bound
Detective Furlong fought with Revira
single-handed Revira is small but pow
erful man with the quickness of a trained
athlete, and the veteran officer had his
hands full. He, however, got a strangle
hold on the little Mexican at last and
gradually choked him into submission.
Participants Exhausted
After the fight, which almost exhausted
almost every man engaged in it, the house
looked like charnel den. Blood, scat
tered clothing, broken dishes, bits of food.
demolished furniture and disorder had
taken the place of the neatly arranged
and well kept interior.
Bound and gagged the prisoners were
placed in two hacks to take them to the
police station. The ropes were removed
from their legs to permit them to walk,
and when the carriage was reached both
Magon and Villarial again made an at
tempt to escape. In some manner they
loosened the ropes that bound their arms
and again began to struggle
Villarial seized the side of the carriage
with one hand and almost overturned