Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-26
DETECTIVE
ADMITS HE
TOLD LIES
SENSATIONS SPRUNG IN TRIAL
OF SARABIA
ALLEGED REVOLUTIONS MAKES
IMPORTANT POINT
"You're a Liarl" He Shouts, Dramat-
icaIIy, When sleuth Says Mex
lean Had Confessed Plan
to "Sack" cananea

| Two dramatic incidents marked the
hearing of the case of Manuel Sarabia
before United States Commissioners w.
NJ. Van Dyke in the federal court yes
| terday.
Sarabia is one of the four Mexicans.
alleged revolutionists, charged with
conspiring with Magoon and others.
/ in st. Louis, to organize an armed ex-
petition to send to Douglas, Ariz., to
| Invade Mexico. This, it is alleged took
place in August and September, 1905.
Sarabia is the man who was ar
rested on the same charge before, in
Douglas, and who, 1t, is said, was kid
mapped from Jail there at night by Mex
lean government detectives. Two
weeks later he was returned from
Mexico to Douglas.
This was done on account of the
popular indignation aroused over the
| kidnapping He was then arrested in
Los Angeles on an indictment found
in Tombstone, Ariz., on the charge of
organizing an armed expedition.
1t was practically admitted that this
Indictment was not good, and that an
other Indictment will have to be made
out, this being the purpose of his de-
tention at the present time. The hear
ing before the commissioner is on the
question of his extradition to Arizona
for trial under this indictment.
rhe state introduced its evidence and
rested, and the case was adjourned
yesterday afternoon until next Friday
at p. m.
First Real Sensation
The first real sensation occurred yes
terday morning when Ansel T. Sam
uels, a detective employed by the Fur
long detective agency, when under
IL 4. H. Tod rhnY
he told Sarabia and others conducting
Revolution" Ia paper printed by Sa-
rabia and others in St. LOUISE, that he
was an advertising agent. He also
said that lying was a part of his busi-
ness.
This point was brought out by At
torney Job Hartman, who with his
law partner, A. r. Holston, is conduct
ing the case for the defense, United
States District Attorney Oscar B.
Lawler representing the government
The court room was full of Mexican
sympathizers and others favorable to
the prisoner, an they broke into laugh
ter at this point. The commissioner
had to call them to order Immediately.
Later in the day, when Detective Ed
ward T. Lohr, of the same agency,
was on the stand for the government,
he testified that he had been sent to
where Sarabia was staying, to get In
his good graces" and to learn what he
could of the latter's plans.
| He claimed at the time to have come
from Cincinnati and to be working in
Chicago for the electric roads, both OF
which stat sments he admitted to be
| untrue, when cross examined by T.
torney Hartman.
He added that lying was part of his
business as a detective and that 1t
would not do to tell the truth at times.
The sensational feature in the evil
dence occurred when Lohr stated that
Sarabia, during one of their confiden-
tial talks in Chicago, had told him of
an attempt to organize an armed force
in Douglas AriZ., to march over the
Mexican line and capture stores and
custom house, and take Cananea.
Calls Him a Liar
at this point Sarabia jumped to his
feet, and in a tragic way told the wit
ness that he lied.
You're a liari" shouted the Mexican
white with rage, shaking his fist at
the witness. 1t looked as though, if
the prisoner had not been in the hands
of a United States marshal, there
would have been a personal encounter
between the prisoner and the witness.
The court continued the case after
this interruption, and Detective Lohr,
in answer to Attorney Harriman's
question as to whether it was a part
of his business to lie, said that he never
lied unless it were necessary. The at
torney asked him how they could tell
If he was not lying now.
The defense also asked the witness
how it came that, although he had
been an employee of the Furlong de-
tective agency for a year prior to the
time mentioned, he did not know Of
the arrest of the alleged Mexican revo-
lutionists by that same agency-an as
sertion he had made during the after
noon.
The defense moved that the case be
dismissed on the grounds that the gov
eminent had failed to prove the con-
spiracy charged in the indictment; had
failed to find any overt act on the part
of the alleged conspirators or the de-
PENDANT, Sarabia, that the alleged con-
fession OF Sarabia to Detective Lohr
was made six months after the alleged
commission OF the offense, and was
not admissible, and that there was no
evidence to prove the commission of
the offense.
The indictment against Sarabia, the
defense said, was void also for reasons
heretofore mentioned, which were pub
lished in The Herald
Only one other witness was examined
during the day-Trinidad Vasquez,
who said he was poisoned the day after
Wagons trial, and who says he could
identify certain letters from Mexicans
in Arizona.
The Johnson case, in which the de-
Tense is charged with an attempt to
defraud, and for which witnesses have
already been subpoenaed, may have to
be set aside a week or so for the Sa-
rabia case.