Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-19

GUTIERREZ DE LARA was ar
rested yesterday morning by
United Saates immigration Off
cials, and is held in the county JAIL
charged with being an alien anarchist.
The arrest was made Immediately after
Police Justice Rose. on the motion of
Deputy District Attorney Alexander,
had dismissed a charge of disturbing
the peace, under which De Lara was
held on bail since last Wednesday.
De Lara declares he is not an an
archist and that he has lived more than
three years in the United States. He
declares also his belief that the Mexi-
can government seeks to have him de-
ported in order that Mexican officials
may avenge themselves against him be-
cause he accompanied John Kenneth
Turner on his trip through Mexico
while gathering data for series of ar
ticles entitled "Barbarous Mexico" now
running in an eastern magazine.
Charles of disturbance preferred
against Miguel Lozano, a native of
Cuba, Quirino Lemon and Manuel Ro-
nero were also dismissed. Lemon was
rearrested, charged with resisting an
officer, Lozano was rearrested, charged
with being an alien anarchist. Berto-
lone Bertone, charged with disturb
ance, failed to appear when his case
was called. His bail of $50 was de-
clared forfeited and a bench warrant
for his arrest was issued.
Wife Denied Conference
The principal witnesses against De
Lara are Detectives Talamantes and
Rico, connected with the local police
department, who were active in their
connection with the arrest of Ricardo
Flores Magon, Antonio T. Villareal and
Liberado Rivera, who are now in an
Arizona prison on charges of having
conspired against the Mexican govern
ment.
Permission to see De Lara was denied
his wife and scores of American friends
yesterday. His attorneys, A. r. Hols-
ton and Clarence Nelly of the firm of
Goldberg & Nelly, were allowed to
communicate with him, however.
Mrs. de Lara, refined and well edu-
Gated American woman, who married
the Liberal a few months ago, was al
most prostrated by the shock of her
husbands arrest. She stated repeated
ly that her husband is not an anarchist,
and that in his writings, lectures and
anarchists are popularity supposed to
espouse. Her husabnd, she says, is a
Socialist, and of the type of hundreds
of thousands of American Socialists op-
posed to violence of any character.
MY husband has been in the United
States more than three years" said
Mrs. de Lara, "and only made brief
business trips out of California since
first coming here. He is peace loving,
quiet, and his very soul recoils against
violence of any sort, most of all against
the assassination of public officials and
all others. Surely American civiliza-
ton will not be guilty of his blood.
Have we not boasted that our govern
ment is founded upon principles of
truth, justice and civil and religious
liberty? Surely my country will not
commit the criminal paradox of surren-
dering to a foreign power a man who
has committed no crime other than ad-
vocating political freedom for his fell
low countrymen.
Stood Only for Liberty
"For this offense of daring to stand
for liberty my husband is already tried
by an autocratic power and condemned
to death without a hearing. I cannot
believe my country will deliver him into
the hands of those seeking to destroy
rim"
IF De Lara is taken across the
Mexican border he will be killed as
Ferrer was killed in Spain last week."
said John Kenneth Turner, author of
"Barbarous Mexico" a serial article
running in the American Magazine.
"De Lara's fate will be no less tragic
than that of Ferrer, though it may
be less dramatic. There may be no
hastily scooped trench and a firing
squad-that is to say the public may
hear of none. Within an hour after
he is delivered however, if the United
States authorities decide to hand him
over, he undoubtedly will be inside Of
prison and his friends and relatives
will never know his fate.
ITO my mind the Mexican govern
ment simply wishes to punish the man
for the assistance he gave me in gath
arine the material for the articles