El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-10-20
VI[LAREAL IS
WELL KNOWN
Peace Conference Head Is
Said to Be Same Man Who
Figured Here in 1905.

! Antonio VilIareal, president OF the
| peace conference" now in progress at
| Aguascalientes, is. according to the
! New York sun, the same Villareal who
! figured so prominently in the news
around FL Paso during the "blowup''
I OF the r Flores Magon revolution
| against POrfirio Diaz back in 1906. At
Z that time Fillareal was secretary of
/ the junta in st. Louis and Magon was
I to be the provisional president The
| Cananea riots We're the outcome of
! their propaganda and an attack by
MagOnistas was made on the little Dor
der town Of Palomas about the same
| time The United States officials made
I quick work OF the revolt however,
by arrestinE both Magon and NillareaL
The sun, commenting upon the prOml-
nece Of Nillareal in the present pro-
ceedings. and Of the possibility Of his
becoming acceptable in the present
Mexican crisis, says
AS governor Of Nueva Leon senior
Nillareal perhaps evades the disquah-
fication which Gen Villa imposed upon
military commanders in connection with
the acting presidency; nevertheless
Nlllareal served in the war as brigadier
general He is very little Of a military
man and a good deal of an agitatOr and
politician. As a radical he suits Gen.
Villa; as an educated man Of proved
ability he may be acceptable to gov
ernOr Carranza-
1T seems to have been forgotten
that an extradition battle was fought
over Antonio Villareal seven years ago.
Arrested in Texas, he was charged with
being a cOnspiratOr against the DiaZ
administration. A clever. audaciOus
and dangerous man was Villareal-dan-
EerOus, that is, 10 clenLfiCO control OF
the government. An attempt was also
made to prove him depOrtable under
the immigration laws because he had
committed 4 crime involving moral tur-
pitude, namely murder. Friends de-
clared that Villareal acted in self de-
fence. but they admitted he was tried
for the homicide and served a four
years sentence.
While the complicated dual proceed
ings were hanging over him Villareal
escaped from the custody OF an immI-
grafton inspector in the Western Union
office in FL PasO (TOuy Sierra was the
inspector). made his way to Missouri,
and afterwards to Los Angeles. The
state department, the department of
eraI Bona parte grew very weary Of the
case. It seems to have been finally de-
cided that while Nillareal s a cOnspira-
tor against the Diaz government was
not extradictable he could be deported
because he had been convicted Of homi-
eide But no extraordinary effort was
made 10 track and seize the political
exile; IL was too evident that II he were
deported on the charge Of moral turpi-
tude he would get short shrift at the
hands of the Mexican government
long years OF plotting
against the authority OF DiaZ, his active
participation in two rebellions- his
l.aLrs7 of the cientificOs and his So
cialistiL ideas would commend him TO
the ConsI5tutionalist rank and file The
element in Mexico would
certainly not approve Of his choice"
Nillareal was quick to embrace the
' - - D TOO
one OF the five or six men who removed
the McGinty cannon from City Hall
park and took IL to OjinaEa. Abe Mo-
Ina DR.. J. J. Bush and Jack Harper
we're among the other who helped -
lift the cannon and get it over the !
river to OroZCo's men