Bisbee daily review., 1922-10-01
PROMP ACTION BY AGE N TS AT
 Fl PASO N|PS
 ALLEGED PLOT
Agents Give Sheriff's Office Credit in Frustrating
 Crossing of River
SEVEN ARRESTS MADE
Assert Revolution Broken Through Action of U. s.
 Government Agents

FL PASO, Sept. 30.-Alleged plots to capture the port of Juarez, always a vulnerable prize in Mexican revolu- lions, was stopped on the American side of the Rio Grande today through prompt action ard vigilance on the part of the sheriff's department, it developed at the federal building o. day.
 Chief Deputy Sheriff R. F.. Bryant, working under instructions from Sher- if Seth B. Orndorff was given credit ty department of justice agents for frustrating alleged attempts on the part of the revolutiorists to cross the river from the American side and take possession of the Mexican port.
 Louis De Nette, special agent in charge of the Fl Paso department of justice said Of the cooperation of the sheriff's office with the United States department was reported in a large measure of the successful termination of the alleged conspiracy which ight have proven disastrous to the Obrecon government
 Seven arrests were made today by MT. Bryant. his deputies and agents of the department of justice frCM El Paso and Brownsville
 Those taken into custody were Man uel H. Reyes and Pablo Amaya, said to be generals in the revolutionary movement; CanutO Reyes. who told a Times reporter he was to be made a major in the rcVaiutionist army and who said he was a first cousin of Gen eral Manuel Reyes; Roberto Loya En- riqueZ, Panfilo Davila, Antonio Valdez and Severeno Aguirre. Aguirre was released. The other arrested men were detained by the department of justice for investigation as tu wheth. CT or not they have violated the neu. trality laws prohibiting 'the setting of foot of a revolution against for eign power with which the United States maintains friendly relations. ' MT. De Nette said
 E. H. Parker, special agent Of the department of justice in charge of the Brownsville office, has been in Fl | Paso all week assisting the local of i ficials in the investigations.
 Special Agent John K. Wren Of the 1 department of justice arrested Cen eral Reyes and General Amaya in E PasO this morning. AIr. De Nctte sad This was the result of an all week m vestigation carried on by the govern | ment officials and the sheriff's office i General Reyes talked freely to de + partment of justice operatives and i newspaper men at the federal build ing today, but declined to say any thing about the alleged revolution | General Reyes wore a large wide i brimmcd 'sombrero." said by federa ] officials to have cost at least $60
 Deputy Sheriffs Van Hargus. Anto nio ApOdaca and Juan Para were ac
 countable for the prompt arrests oi : the other men, MT. Bryant and MT | De Nette said.
 i Mir. Bryant and deputy Para sTen | all of Thursday night in the bosqut eight miles below Yzleta watching tho i activities of the revolutionists. Ar 2 lCSI Ol lhC hiCh Oi NuNli 1 equipment was not scheduled to take place until early Sunday, Bryant said Announcement at 8 o'clock thi.
 morning by the Times that the revOlu i tion had broken" was responsible i for the prompt action on the part O
 the government agents and the eff ! cials of the sheriff's office. Mir. Pry l ant reported the sheri's office 3efOr,
 daylight and gave instructions to dep
 uties Hargus and Apadoca to ak,
 the arrests. The arrested men wer,
 taken into custody at the J. A. McGcn
 agill ranch between Yzleta and Clint | One of the tenants on the ranch tolC
 the officers he had allowed the al
 legged revolutiOnists to use the rancl l as a place of concealment for them
 selves and for the large amount O
 munitions and equipment which wal
 seized.
 i Mir. De Nette said today that thu
 vault at the federal building was filled
 with 30-3O rifles. ammunition .3S anC
 .45 calibre automatic pistols, saddles
 brides, blankets, canteens, horse
 shoes and field glasses, taken at tho
 ranch when the officers arrested tho
 men who arc under detention.