Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-30
NOTED MEXICAN
LIBERAL LEADER
WEDS HEIRESS
SARABIA CLAIMS B0ST0NESE
GIRL AS BRIDE
UNUSUAL ROMANCE RESULTS IN
MARRIAGE AT TUCSON
Member of Junta Indicted on Charge
of IncltIng Revolution Meets
Future Wife While
In Jail

A N international marriage, the cul-
IN mination Of a romance stranger
IA than many of fiction and surpass-
ing in interest the majority of those in
fact, was solemnized yesterday in Tue
son, when Miss Elizabeth Trowbridge'
member of an aristocratic Bostonese
family, became the bride of Manuel
Sarabia, noted Mexican liberal, whom
she saw first in the Los Angeles county
Jail.
The bride is pretty. accomplished and
highly educated; her husband is one
of the leaders of the Liberal or Revolu-
tionary party of Mexico and is under
indictment on the charge of conspiring
to organize an army in Arizona and
overthrow the Mexican government.
He, with Ricardo Flores Magon, An
tonic I. Villarreal and Librado Rivera,
president. secretary and director of the
Liberal party, who have been held in
communicate in the Los Angeles county
iail for seven months on the charge OF
conspiracy, will be tried some time in
February in Tombstone, Ariz., where
the indictment was returned.
Mrs. Sarabia, who is intensely de-
been in Tucson since August. working
to secure their freedom, and it was
largely owing to her efforts that Mr..
Sarabia was allowed to go out under
bonds.
Met Sarabia in Jail
The acquaintance that has ended in
this romantic marriage began in the
Los Angeles county jail last spring.
Mr.. Sara bia was a prisoner and MISS
Trowbridge, whose sympathies had
been aroused by what She had heard
of the alleged persecution of the Mex
lean liberal and comrades, was taken
there by a friend to hear from his own
lips the story of his wrongs. That
meeting made a deep impression on the
young woman and proved the pc
ginning of a great change in her lie.
She had come here a winter tourist
travelling with her mother, Mrs. Mark
Shultis, a resident of Boston's most
exclusive district, Brookline, making |
a leisurely tour of Southern California.
Miss Trowbridge had no intention or
remaining in Southern California until
she heard of the now-celebrated Mex |
lean case. That fired all the slumber-
ing revolutionary spirit that had been
hidden underneath the conventional, |
well-bred exterior of this quiet, retir- |
ing young woman, but which she right
fully inherited from ancestors that
fought bravely for liberty in rs. Con-
vinced that here was a wrong to be
rghted, she announced to her mother
her intention to stay here and help
right it, All the conservatism of her
class caused Mrs. Shultis to protest
against her daughters decision. She
was shocked and Mortified, but Miss
Elizabeth was firm. The result was
Mrs. Shultis went back to Boston
alone and her independent daughter
stayed to fight for the Mexicans.
Has Independent Fortune
As she was of age and had an in
come of her own, the young woman
was free to go on with her chosen
work. Before going to Arizona she
made her home with friends, Mr.. and
Mrs. P. d. Noel 4S01 Glen Albyn
romance that had grown out of Miss
Trowbridge's interest in the Mexican
revolutionary movement until the tele-
gram announcing the marriage was
received yesterday.
Mrs. Sarabia has marked literary
talent and she has written a great
many articles about the Mexican case
that have been published in pamphlets
and labor papers. In Tucson she, with
a group of sympathizers in the move
ment, has established monthly maga-
zine, the Border. which is to be de-
voted to the interests of the border
states on both sides of the line. 1t
promises to give the public a truthful
account of political and industrial af-
fairs in the southern republic.
While she was in Los Angeles Miss
Trowbridge frequently expressed her
admiration of the Mexican character
saying she saw no reason why Amer
leans should think themselves a su.
perior race To those who knew of
the regard in which she held these
people her choice of husband does
not appear strange.