El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-19
MACON BROS.
OPPOSE ARREST
Give Battle When Confront
ed With Charges of Incit-
ing Murder and Revolt.

Los Angeles, Cam, Feb. 19.-After
giving battle when arrested, two Mex
lcan revolutionary propagandists are in
/ custody here today awaiting further
action on indictments found against
| them charging use of the mails to in
| cite murder and revolution. They are
Enrique Flores Magon and Ricardo
Flores MACON, brothers, and editors OF
| fight when United States DEPUTY mar
shals and city detectives raided their
newspaper plant at Ivanhoe, suburb,
Three indictments were found, each
containing three counts. based on edi~
torials which appeared within the last
six months in Regeneration. Two in
| g9lctments were against the Magon
against William c. Owen who. accord
ing 20 reports, is named as editor OF
the English section OF the neWspaper,
owen has not been found
Enrique Wagon Is Injured.
When the officers entered the news
paper plant, the Magon brothers re-
sisted arrest In the struggle, which
occurred in small room, Enrique Ma
S Tpn was struck on the head by F. G.
thompson, deputy United States mar
shall, with a revolver. He was treated
at the receiving hospital for a severe
scalp wound.
Ricardo MACON, according to the Off
GERS, also resisted, but was quickly
overpowered- While the fighting was
on, six Mexican printers and a mixed
crowd OF about 10 men and women
Iusned IN and sought to prevent them
from taking the Magon brothers away.
They were covered by display of fire.
arms.
Wagons Convicted in 1912.
me MACON brothers were convicted
In the United States district court here
N July, 1912, on charges of violating
the neutrality laws In fomenting a rev
olutlon IN Lower California. On that
CONVECTION they were sentenced to terms
OF - months each on McNeiTs Island.
Washington. After the conviction the
police here were called upon to dis
pense mob of sympathizers that con-
gregated in front Of the federal build
ing
Served Sentence in Arizona.
=, Prior TO their arrest here in 1912, the
Wagon brothers are said to have served
sentences ia the Arizona state peni-
tentlary at Florence in connection with
their revolutionary propaganda.
Mexico Delivered to CapitaIFsts.|
me editorial as set forth in the first
count Of the respective indictments,
was published December Is last and
reads:
Wilson is in connivance with Car
rama because the old sharper has
promised Wilson that he would favor
american capitalists in Mexico. That
is to say, Carranza has promised 10
deliver the Mexican people, tied hand
ana Ioot, TO the same repacious Ameri-
can plutOcracy That DtaZ enSlaVed."
The editorial quoted in the second
count was published September 2S, 1918.
and was devoted largely to an appeal
TO Me1icsns to refuse TO surrender
their arms to the Carranza government.
Urges Attacks on Chiefs
The third and longest editorial upon
which the third count is based was
printed November s, 1915. IT urged At
tacks against the chiefs and Officers"
or the de tacto government of Mexico
we, the disinherited, must rid our
selves Of those who are in our wav IL |
we can, by hook or crok, the same as !
We get rid Of the tiger. as we annihilate
IRE rStti esnake' as we crush the ia (
One portion OF it reads:
Honor points you the road Won !
should take; said another pararrsnb 1
rebel against the government until |
you obtain the triumph of the princi-
pies comprised in the declaration on 1
The 25d Of September, 1911, expediteJ 4
by the Mexican liberal party nrincj-
pies that advocate the death OF eanitsI
ligions." al ~