Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-29
DE LARA FREE
AFTER 1ODAYS'
IMPRISONMENT
AFFECTING REUNION AT HOME
OF LIBERAL
TRANSCRIPT OF EVIDENCE is
GIVEN ATTORNEYS
Detectives Who Figured in Case Are
Flayed by the Attorneys for Ao-
cused, Who Deny Legality
of Arrest

political refugee, was released SnorIly
after noon yesterday from the county
Jail, where he had been held for ten
DAYS. Bail of $4,000 was furnished by
c. C. Reynolds of the Harper reynolds
Hardware company and Alfred NJ. Sal
yer Of the Salyer- Baumeister company.
The Liberal was met as he left the jail
by his attorneys. Clarence Nelly and
A. r. Holston, and accompanied to his
home, 424 West Fourth street, where
he was greeted by his wife. The scene
at the De Lara home was affecting.
Mrs. De Lara was overjoyed to have
her husband back with her, even
though he is not absolutely free.
Il am so happy to be out of Jail,
said De Lara, that 1 hardly know
what to do. [ am glad to be away
from that prison, but l have no COM
plant to offer for my treatment there.
The officers were kind to me. 1t was
like being in heaven compared with
the three days [ spent in the city jail.
That city Jail is the worst place have
ever seen"
Attorneys Get Transcript
A, transcript of the evidence upon
which De Laras arrest on the charge
of being an alien anarchist is based
has been furnished his attorneys. Ac-
cording to them the evidence is little
short of farcical. Attached to the tes-
timony is a statement made by De
Lara just after he had been incarcer-
ated and made before he had been
visited by his attorneys. In every line
of De Lara's statement, although made
without the knowledge or consent of
his attorneys, he disproves the charge
that he is an anarchist, say his at
torneys.
L. A. Rico, an officer of the police
department, is the one who made the
statement against De Lara. This
statement is concurred in by T. F.
Rico, who a year or more ago sued
for libel a newspaper to which De
Lara was contributing. This case was
thrown out of court. L. A. Rico is
the man who gave testimony against
Quirino Limon, arrested October 10,
charged with resisting an officer.
Limon was acquitted after the jury
had been out but three minutes.
Rico made a mess of his testimony
against Limon, and, according to At
torneys Nelly and Holston, attempted
to prove many allegations against De
Lara and Limon, although De Lara
was not on trial at the time, and al
though Limon- was charged only with
resisting an officer.
The trial of Limon is looked upon
by the attorneys as the first vital blow
10 the entire deportation case.
A brief resume of De Lara's case to
date is as follows
Resume of Case
Arrested October 10 while speaking
in the free speech zone at the Plaza,
charged with speaking without a Ii
cense This charge was subsequently
changed TO disturbance.
Held without bail until October 13
1,,1 oil r,lN to I,,s1 O.
habeas corpus proceedings had been
instituted.
Appeared October IS before Police
Judge Rose to answer a charge of dis
turbance. The case was dismissed be-
fore it reached the jury.
Arrested October is by immigration
officers on charge of being an alien
anarchist subject to deportation and
confined in the county Jail until noon,
October %, when he was released on
$4,000 bail.
During the time of De Laras con-
finement in the county Jail a monster
mass meeting of protest was held in
Simpson auditorium. The De Lara De-
fense league was formed during this
period and a defense fund raised.
Half dozen lawyers in various parts
of the United States and several of
the most prominent members of the
Los Angeles bar offered their services
in behalf of the political refugee. Of
ficers of the Defense league are not
ready to announce the name of one
lawyer of the highest standing who
will be called into the case. However,
say the officers, when the name Of this
man is mentioned it will carry its
weight with all Angeenos and also
with Washington authorities.
Confident of Victory
After carefully going over the evil
dence which immigration Inspector A.
c. Ridgway says is all he has to base
his charge against De Lara, the ac-
cused mans attorneys have expressed
themselves as confident that De Lara
will not be deported. They say that
from the very words Of the two police
men De Lara can be acquitted of the
anarchy charge.
THE language used by these sup
posedly well informed detectives" said
one of the attorneys, "shows their
mental caliber. Rico admitted under
oath when he was on the witness stand
in the LimOn trial that he could not
write Spanish, the language of his par
ents and the language he first spoke
as a child. Linguists in the court at
the time declare he has difficulty in
speaking correctly in that language,
not to say anything of writing it. His
answers made before Inspector Ridg-
way show that Rico is at about as
great disadvantage in English as he
is in Spanish or Mexican.
"Of course at De Lara's hearing be-
fore the immigration officials an at
tempt will be made to quote De Lara S
exact words during his speech in the