Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-01
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HVOE EEIVO1 y Il
MEXICAN IS
ARRESTED
MANUEL SARABlA IS TAKEN
INTO CUSTODY
WANTED TO SEE FRIENDS;
iNABBEo BY OFFICERS
Charged with Conspiracy on Warrant
from Arizona Believed to Be
Based on Federal Inc
dictment

With hopes of securing pass into the
county Jail to see his friends and TO
brighten their loneliness with words or
cheer, Manuel Sarabia, Mexican, one OF
the leaders of the liberal praty IN his
native land, was yesterday placed under
arrest bv a deputy United States marshal,
charged with conspiracy.
sarabia had gone to the marshals Of
fee to apply for a pass to the JAIL ms
daily custom for weeks. In the jail are
confined the four Mexicans who have TAX
en- prominent part in the building UP OF
the liberal party in their country-Magon'
Rivera. Villareal and De Lara-and Sara
bia has made it practice to visit them
frequently, hoping by his presence ana
comforting words to make their lot ut
tie more pleasant and to buoy up their
spirits with assurances that their friends
were working increasingly in their cause
The arrest was made on a warrant from
Arizona believed to have been based on
| federal indictment returned in the second
territorial district and charging violation
of the neutrality laws Of the United
States These charges are denied by Sa-
rabia, who declares he took no part in
any of the activities which may have
taken place in Arizona against the ruling
government of Mexico 1t is admitted
| that he was a member of the junta at st.
Louis and was contributor to the organ
of that committe, Regeneration.
Once Before Arrested
This is not Sarabia's first experience
with ARIZONA officials. Once before he
has occupied a cell in the jail at Douglas,
where he was imprisoned on request of
the Mexican government. No specific
charge, 1t is said, was made against the
young man at that time, and his arrest
was the subject of much adverse com
ment. which was changed into the most
earnest protest when, on the night of
June go Sarabia was taken from the Jail,
hurried into an automobile and driven
rapidly across the border into Mexican
territory.
Mexican officials were in waiting for
him, and he was thrown into prison,
where he remained eight days. Mean
while the anger of the citizens of Doug
las became greater, and the hue and cry
against what was regarded by many as
as act of unparalleled injustice became so
great that the officials of the government
at Washington were compelled to inter-
cede in behalf of the prisoner. Attorney
| General Bonaparte. through the American
embassy at Mexico City, demanded the
| I eturn forthwith of Sarabia and this de-
mand was quickly complied with.
Serabia's return to Douglas was the sig
nal for general rejoicing, and he was
greeted with open arms by the citizens
A grand jury investigation followed AMI
/ a number of officers were indicted
charged with being parties to the kid
naping, but the charges were later dis
missed. The Mexican consul at Douglas
| however, was recalled by his government
and as he is known to have been promi-
nent in engineering the arrest of Sarabia
and suspected of completely in the kid
mapping. his recall was regarded as a dis
tinct mark of disapproval on the part of
the government at Washington.
Cousin In Prison
Sarabia later went to St. Louis, and
thence came to Los Angeles, where he has
lived since with a friend at 800 California
street At the time he was declared to
have conspired against his government In
Arizona Sarabia is said to have been In
ST. Louis, and the men whose names are
mentioned as being associated with him
at the time are declared to have been out
side Arizona Rivera was also in st.
Louis and Magon was in Canada, visiting
brother. De Lara was In California and
Villareal was in Mexico
Incarcerated in cell of one of the
worst prisons in Mexico there lies today
cousin of Manuel Sarabia, a leader OF
the liberal party. This cousin is Juan
Sarabia, and he will have spent one year
in prison in February. The prison is
| called San Juan de Ulua, and is described
as place where no man can live more
than five years. Seven years was the
sentence imposed on Juan Sarabia, a sen
fnnNn W fe GOT ofi,
death. His offense, say his friends, con-
sisted in associating himself with a DO.
itical party in Mexico other than the
party of which Porfirio Diaz is the head.