Evening star., 1926-02-02
PLOTS TO FOMENT
MEXICAN UPRISING
ALLEGED IN TEXAS
U. S. Agent in San Antonio
Claims to Have Uncovered
Evidence of Junta.
REPLIES TO ACCUSATIONS
OF REFUGEE LEADER
Denies Charge That He Gave Pri-
vate Documents to Gales
Government.

~ the Asso,qated Press.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. February =
Iurovering of evidence showing that
81 revolutionary lunta Of Mexicans is
grtive here and in conspiracy to over
throw the Gales government in the
republc was announced TO the Asso-
ctated Press today by Gus Jones, in
..harge of the San Antonio office of
ne Department of Justice.
MIR. Jones declared his Office had
frund and turned over to Federal At
rorney John D. Hartman. evidence
that this junta was planning the dy-
Damiting OF a passenger train south
bound from the border for the purpose
"f showing that revolution against
The Gales administration was in
progress.
This evidence yesterday was given
.Tr. Hartman, who will lay it before
he Federal grand jury when it con-
NeneS here February Is. Indictments
charging violation of the neutrality
Jaws will be sought against the lead
ers of the alleged revolutionary move
nent.
Statement in Reply.
Mr.. Jones issued Il statement to
the Associated Press giving these
details in reply TO charges made Ia ISL
night by f. EsparZa Martinez, one OF
The Mexican refugee leaders and q
De La Huerta sympathizer. that a
department of justice agent had seized
his documents and private CORE
spondence and allowed them to be ex-
Hmined by an agent of the Gales gov
ch.9r
by Mr.. Jones to be wholly unfounded
and scurrilous."
Mr.. Jones' statement follows: "On
September 10. 1925, there was a meet
ing held in San Antonio, attended by
80 or 30 revolutionists. They per
fected an organization calling itself
the Revolutionary Junta Of San
Antonia,' and appointed an executive
committee of five with full authority
10 act for the junta, the purpose being
TO use every means possible for the
overthrow of the government of Mex
leo. Reinaldo Espersa Martinez was
made secretary of the junta. We OBJ
rained evidence that the executive
committee and members of the junra
were conspiring to violate the neutral
ity laws of the United States and that
they went so far as to plan the dyna-
hitting of q passenger train south
bound from the border for the purpose
Of obtaining money TO carry on
further operations and also to an
nounce to the press of the world that
revolutionary movement had
started in Mexico.
Obtained Search Warrant.
Based on the information and evi-
dence we had, we obtained search
warrant and searched the premises OF
Mr.. Martinez and other members Of
the executive committee for official
records of the revolutionary junta.
We obtained these records and trans
lations of them have just been COM
nleted and they corrobordte in de-
rail our previous information.
This search was made by four
deputy United States marshals, each
being accompanied by agents Of the
Department of Justice.
''All of the evidence, together with
translat tons of the document. have
been placed in the hands Of the
United States attorney for presenta-
ton 10 the grand jury.
These allegations ana insinuations
made by Mr.. Martinez are wholly
false, as the evidence viii show at
the proper time"
Martinez, who sided with Adolfo
and Alfonso de la Buerta in the ubor-
i've revolution in 1923, told the Asso-
ciated Press last night the informa-
lion CLEANED from the inspection of
the correspondence, which included
some 250 letters, resulted in the slay-
ing in Mexico Of his 62-year-old father
and several of his friends. with whom
he had been in communication during
his stay here as q political refuge.
The day his papers were seized
Martinez was questioned by Gus
Jones, in charge of the Department
of Justice office here, he said, and the
following day in the same Office he
saw Fernando Cara. q special agent
OF the Gales administration, reading
this correspondence.
Letters Opened in Mails.
Martinez's mall, addressed to him by
name, has been opened In the mails
Tor some weeks, the refugee leader
Said.
Producing the search warrant
under which Manuel Sorola, a special
Department Of Justice agent searched
his home on December 10, 1925. and
which alleged that he and other lead
ers of the refugee group were en-
gagged in conspiracy TO send a mil
itary expedition to Mexico, MARTINEZ
denied any revolutionary intentions.
Speaking for himself and associates,
including de la Huertas, he also
States neutrality laws and treaty
obligations.
Party Without Funds.
He admitted the refugee group was
attempting to discredlt the Gales gov
ernment because of its SoCialistic lean
tngs. He scoffed at the allegations Of
4 revolutionary conspiracy, declaring
he de Ia Buerta sympathizers here
numbered only 80 persons, and that
all were without funds. For proof of
their poverty he cited the fact that
hey were unable to raise $500 for
bond of Col. Demetrio Torres when he
was held i'll the local county Jail here
a few weeks ago before he was de-
ported and subsequently shot to death
If Torreon, State of Coahuila, last
week.
On January the elder Martinez
vas slain at Guadalajara, State Of
Jalisco. The refugee exhibited q
January 4 edition of a Mexico City
newspaper containing his own pic
yure with d caption saying the photo
graph was that of the revoll.Jionist
killed at Guadala jara.
Later Gabriel Oceampa. secretary
% the governor of Jalisco during the
revolution, who had been named In
'he seized correspondence, was exc
'Jted
Six of the political refugees here
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