Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-27

led up to the prosecution of Lemon are
as follows:
Facts of Lemons Arrest
A meeting was held Sunday after
noon, October 10, in the Plaza, known
as the free speech zone" De Lara and
Lozano spoke at that meeting. Both
were arrested and taken to Jail. Those
who had heard the speeches went in a
body to the police station for the pur-
pose of protesting against the arrest of
the two men. Each of the arrested men
was first charged with speaking with
out a permit. They were held in jail
without bail until Wednesday, October
10, when the arresting officers discov-
cred the men had been speaking in the
free speech zone, and needed no permit.
The charge against De Lara was hast
lily changed to disturbance. This charge
was dismissed when 1t came to trial.
De Lara was then arrested and placed
in the county Jail, charged with being
an alien anarchist. About the same
procedure was gone through with in
the case of Lozano.
When the crowd which went to the
police station to protest against the ar
rest and Imprisonment of De Lara and
Lozano reached First street and Broad
way officers stopped them. Lemon
happened to be passing along the street
at the time. The crowd was told to dis
perse, according to officer Pautz.
AS it began to move away somebody
in the crowd cried "Vive la libertad,' -
which translated means long live lib
erty." Lemon happened to be nearest
an officer and was arrested. Several
others were arrested at the same time,
but all of them have been either dis
charged or given light fines.
Worked Steadily Seven Years
Lemon has been employed by the
Fairchild- Gilmore Wilton company for
seven years, according to his testimo-
ny. He said he had not lost a single
day from his work when it was possible
to work. All the officers testified that
Lemon was unknown to them, and that
so far as they knew he never had been
in any sort of trouble before.
'"Fhey can't deport De Lara on the
evidence Of Rico and Talamantes, un-
less those two worthless change their
testimony" was the conclusion of an
attorney who listened to the detectives
when they were on the witness stand
in the Lemon case and when they
swore that the Mexican liberal had
said in the course of his speech just
prior to his arrest at the Plaza.
Clowns Not Needed
Young Rico, who said he learned
Spanish when he was a child yet
could not read or write the language,
attempted to quote De Lara, giving a
free translation as he went along. Ac-
cording to linguists present, the police
man made a most pitiable mess of it.
This officer swore he was at the Plaza
working on a murder case yet he be-
came so interested in what De Lara
was saying that he made notes-but
he could not produce the notes. 1t
did not appear whether he made the
notes in Spanish or In English-pre-
sumably the latter since he couldn't t
read Spanish or write the language.
"Talamantes, though a man of more
experience in such work, whose testi-
mony has sent many poor Mexicans to
prison, made almost as poor showing.
Gas for Pautz. 1t is a marvel to me
that men of his calibre Of mentality are
kept on the force. This city needs men
of intellect not clowns on It's police
force. The whole affair was most dis
gusting and I do not wonder that the
jury was indignant.
my conclusion of the showing made
yesterday is that the Mexican officials
are getting poor return for the money
they are spending. 1 mean by that
efforts Of the autocracy to get pos
session of political prisoners might be
directed by more efficient mind than
the one now in charge"