Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-09
DE LARA IS
RELEASED
REJOICING AMONG FRIENDS OF
FREED MAN
COURT SAYS IMPOSSIBLE TO Ex-
TRADITE
Attorneys for Alleged RevoIutlonists
Z Fall to Secure Ruling on Forty
Day Provision In ExtradItIon
Cases

Amid scenes of rejoicing and surround
ed by scores of friends who have watched
with ever-increasing interest and SYM
pathy his efforts to regain his liberty. L.
Gutierrez de Lara, the Mexican httera-
teur, was yesterday released from GUS
tody and passed from the United States
marshars office free man.
His arms filled with flowers, the gifts
of friends who mad gathered hours be-
fore the time set for ths rendering OF
the courts decision on the extradition pro-
ceedings, De Lara made his way down
First street to Broadway and thence to-
ward Second street. a procession follow
ing, while a. number of his countrymen'
in an effort to express their feelings.
Rugged and kissed the man for whose
liberation they have striven with never
falling zeal.
De Lara had been confined in Jail for
1O4 days. having been arrested on Sep
TENDER 26 on a charge of robbery, the
real reason for the arrest however, be-
ing, his attorneys declare, his connection
with the Liberal party in Mexico. He
was held more than forty days on the
charge, when a charge Of larceny was
placed against him and another forty
days was spent in the county jail when
third charge was LODGED against him.
The last charge was that of stealing
wood. the original complainant being Col.
w. G. Greene, the wealthy copper man.
The wood was eeid to have been stolen
from land owned by the Cananea Copper
company on August ID, 1903, but the
prisoner declared he was given permits
sion to cut wooo from land claimed by
Mrs Lucia F. de Cuna, one of his clients.
He was convicted of this offense In Mex
leo, but states he was released on an
order of the highest court of that coun-
try after serving two months in jail.
Value of Wood Not Shown
Nothing was shown to prove that the
wood was worth $25, a fact that would
have made the alleged theft extraditable.
In ruling on the matter, Judge Olin
Well5orn said he could not see how 1t
was possible to extrau-te De Lara where
no proof as to the value of the property
said to have been taken was shown.
Further. said the court, the statute of
limitations is sufficient to cause the dis
charge of the prisoner, and the order for
his release was entered.
Counsel for De Lara, "A. r. Holston and
Job Hartman, who have carried on
vigorous fight in behalf o. the Mexicans
said to be wanted by the Mexican gov
eminent requested the court to pass upon
the question whether the prisoner had
been legally held in excess of the forty
days specified in the statutes. The court
declined to take up further time, how
ever, in a discussion of this question, but
said he believed the forty-day rule was
not an iron-bound one.
De Lara, while looked upon revolu
zionist, Is said not to be a member of
the Mexican junta and his presence in
Mexico Is not so greatly desired as the
other Mexicans now held on various
charges. De Lara is a man of good edu-
cation and a writer of prominence. He at
one time practiced law In his own coun-
try He said yesterday he intended re-
naming in Los - l-elo5.