Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25
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FOR MACON
REVoLUTIoNIsTs GET WRlTs OF
HABEAs CORPUS
Printer on La Revolution Evades
Secret Service Men-Brother
of Ringleader, His Lieuten-
ant, Watched For

Ricardo Flores Magon, Antonio Villir-
ial. Librado Rivera and Modesto Diaz
the Mexican conspirators and revolution
lists arrested in Los Angeles Friday night
by detective agents of the Mexican gov
ernment and local police Detectives Tai
amantes and Tom and Louis Rico, are
to make strenuous fight to regain their
liberty in this country.
Sitting in the little solitary steel cages
in the city prison, but one vision con
fronts their mind as they picture their
future 1t is that of a high adobe wall
inside the court of a grim prison, four
oblong pine boxes and a file of rurales
with loaded rifles.
In their minds eye they can see them
selves with hands behind them, placed
with backs to the wall and a small piece
of white paper pinned directly over their
hearts, To one side of the file of soldiers
stands little officer with drawn sword
and at his command the soldiers fall
into line, their rifles are raised and
aimed directly at each of these little
pieces of paper. There Is a brief COM
mand, there is a flash of fire, a score of
reports that almost blend as one, quick
sign of absolution from cloaked and
cossacked figure in brown and then
blackneSS.
This picture is ever confronting them.
To escape it's realization the entire re-
sources of the Mexican revolutionary
junta in America are to be called upon,
and the first step to escape from the
clutches of the government to the south
was made by the prisoners last night
when writs of habeas corpus were served
upon Chief of Police Edward Kern, re-
turnable Monday afternoon next in the
superior court.
BordwelI Issues. Writs
The writs were sworn out before Judge
Walter Bordwel1 late yesterday after
noon by L. Gutierrez de Lara, a Mexican
attorney, counsel for the members of
the junta.
Not being able to secure the sigma
lures of his clients to the affidavits in
the case because of the fact that acting
under orders of Secret Service Officer
Thomas Furlong the men are kept in
solitary confinement and incommuni-
cado, Attorney de Lara made his repre-
sentations to the court over his own
sworn signature.
In the application for the writ he
briefly sets forth in the usual legal
form that the men are restrained of
their liberty by Chief Kern without
warrant of law and for no cause what
ever of legal kind, and that they have
committed no crimes and are not
charged with having committed any
crimes for which they could be deprived
of their liberty under the laws of the
state of California or of the United
States. That they have been arrested
at the instigation of the Mexican gov
ernment for political reasons alone and
that the offenses which they are al
legged to have committed against the
Mexican government are political and
not extraditable under the laws of the
country or the treaties of the two ma
tions, declares the document
Judge Bordwell took formal cog
nizance of the application and ordered
1t returnable before Judge Curtis D.
Wilbur in department 8 of the superior
court at o'clock on August 26. The
writs were served upon Chief of Police
Kern and the arresting officers in the
case last night. They will produce the
prisoners in Judge Wilbur's court at
the time ordered.
Confer with CreeI
Shortly after the serving of the writs
of habeas corpus a consultation was
held at the rooms of Detective Fur
long in the Trenton hotel on Olive
street below Fourth street by the de-
tectives in the case and Mexican Am
bassador Enrique Creel and Mexican
Consul Antonio Lozano.
Ambassador Creel. at whose instance
and on whose order the arrest OF these
men were made, briefly directed Detec-
tive Furlong to proceed with the prose-
cutions against the prisoners and to
place the cases against them In such
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