Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-28
MEXICANS IN
COURT AGAIN
DEFENSE FIGHTS FOR FREEDOM
OF PRISONERS
REvoLuTIoNIsTs HEAR THE EVIL
DENcE AGAINST THEM
Detective Testifies He Arrested Men
Without Warrants and Was Paid
for Work by the Southern
Republic

hearing yesterday in the cases of the
Mexcans who are fighting extradition
was the testimony of Thomas Furlong,
the we'll known st. Louis detective. who
took part in the arrest of the alleged
conspirators August 20, 1907, at Ill East
Pico street Of this city.
Mr.. Furlong said he had been watch
ing the house for two or three weeks
previous to the raid. did you have any
warrant for making the arrest?' was
asked him on the cross-examination
None" was the reply. Mr.. Furlong iden-
titled several documents which were Of
fered in evidence and read. Some of them
were of an incendiary character. Sew
eral of them were not signed The de-
tective admitted he had no warrant to
search the house and remove property
from the premises.
''Who paid you for the work?' was
tasked- by the defense. =
"The Mexican government" was the
unhesitating response.
+ AnsylT. Samuels, detective who has
been assisting Mr.. Furlong in working
| up the case, also identified the handwrit-
| ing of VilIareal and Magon, which he
said he had become familiar with during
six months he had worked in their Of
flee at ST. Louis as an advertising agent
on a so per cent commission basis. He
said he received about $3.50 in all for
the six months work done in the en-
ployment of Magon
Frankly Discusses Letter
United States District Attorney Oscar
I,awler read a large number of letters
written by the prisoners to their allies
and a number of letters received by the
alleged conspirators. Some of these were
of a revolutionary tone and spoke of
armed resistance to the tyranny of the
Mexican government Villareal was asked
about these letters and discussed them
frankly.
1--WE wrote some of these letters and
we admit we were in correspondence
with persons who contemplated armed re-
sistance If we had popular elections in
Mexico as you have in the United States
we would willingly try to secure our ends
through the ballot. But we have no
rights there to vote as we want and
revolution seems to be the only method
Of securing reform. Our references to
such movements in the correspondence
read, however, refer only to organiza-
tions to be started within the borders of
Mexico and we have never contemplated
the organization of an armed force to
proceed from the United States into
Mexico
do YOU DeIeVe III IHe dSSdSSiiidllob VI
rulers?" was asked him.
mo" was the reply.
''Do YOU want President Diaz assass-
inated?"
"No We have had plenty of chance
to do that If we wanted to-. 1t would
be easy to kill him at any time, but
that is not part of our program or
propaganda.
lahore Assassination Letter
eyes. we received the letter which re-
fers to the assassination of the president
of Mexico and the United States. 1t has
never been answered. 1t was written by,
some man of whom we know nothing and
for whom we are in no way responsible.
Perhaps it was written by some detec-
tivo'
One of the letters read referred to an
agent who was to go into Mexico TO
treat with the Yaqui Indians in relation
to their resistance to the Mexican gov
ernment.
admitting that the prisoners had COM
munication with the Yaquis," said Attor-
new Job Hartman last night, this does
not in the least alter the situation The
resistance of the Indians was carried on
within the republic of Mexico, and any
one within the United States may enter
into relations with them without ANY
violation of the neutrality law SO lons
as no armed movement is set on foot
within the United States directed against
Mexico
Capt. Thomas A. Rynning. who at the
time of the trouble in Douglas was cap
tain of the Arizona rangers. took the
witness stand and told of the raid on the
Orc Plata house in Douglas, where the
alleged conspirators are said to have held
their meetings during the months of Au-
gust and September. He said he had
found in the place a stick of dynamite.
two or three pistols, several bundles OF
revolutionary newspapers, about forty
cartridges and some flags.
During the examination he told OF
having gone into Mexico at the t1me OF
the Cananea outbreak and having been
appointed by Governor Rafael Isabel to
command the 800 armed Americans who
went across, the border at the same time.
He denied he had taken an armed force
into Mexico and claimed the men all
went down as individuals 'to protect
American men and women who were be-
ing killed down there"
Trinidad Vasquez the Mexicant witness
who claims to have been at the meetings