Evening star., 1927-10-30

have an espionage system and were
devoting our efforts only to political
activities. That is why it was so easy
for the government to arrest so large
number of civilians.
"I was in bed, asleep. in Mexico
City. when just before daybreak on
October l heard a loud pounding on
the door. Then l heard the order:
open. in the name of the President"
I sprang from bed hastily and started
to throw on some clothes. l was not
fully dressed when my bedroom door
was burst open and Col. Talamantes,
head Of the special federal police OF
| the City Of Mexico, acting under
direct orders of President Gales. en-
tered my room. With him were eight
men, armed, but dressed in civilian
| clothes. Without word of eXplana-
ton they took me with them under
| threat of death. In an automobile l
was taken to the military prison of
| Santiago Talatelolco in Mexico City.
/ had the honor .: being thrust into
one of the cells reserved for generals.
mot y word was said to me all
| through this procedure. Five days
and five nights l was held incom-
| municado in that cell.
"Since reaching the United States. /
have learned that my family put up
| legal fight for me. and lost. In Mex
| leo we have the ley de amparo'-the
same thing as your habeas corpus in
the United States. The day l was ar
| rested, my family engaged a lawyer
| who applied for writ of ampara be-
| fore the federal district judge Of
Mexico City. The judge granted this
| writ. because /. a civilian. had been
arrested by military authorities with
out any judicial order. The military
authorities ignored the writ,
Victim of Prison Trick.
"My first day in prison was visit.
ed by Capt. kennedy. a Mexican in
spite Of his Irish name, and member
Of President Gales personal staff He
brought with him a wig. false beard
and a false mustache that had been
found when the military authorities
searched my home. 1t was an outfit
I had used long months before at a
costume masquerade party. Capt.
| Kennedy also brought photographer
with him. There in prison he forced
me to put on wig. beard and mua-
tache, and pose for a photograph.
Then he forced me to pose for a photo
graph without those ornaments. You
will do a lot of things with a gun in
your ribs.
"And learned at Laredo that the
next day every paper in Mexico City
published those two photographs side
| by side with an official government
bulletin announcing that had been
arrested in the streets of Mexico City
in that disguise.
THAT was my only Tisit while !
was in that cell, until the night they
| came TO take me away.
Then on the night of October 10.
Col Mayer of the department of
police in Mexico City. called at my cell
to remove me. They took me out un-
der armed guard. put me in an auto
mobile. and rode me to the railroad
station. My family had posted groups
of watches outside the prison gate.
| relieving one another every two hours.
80 they might know when l was
| taken out. The automobile was fol-
| lowed to the railroad station. My
family was notified by telephone-not
| by the authorities. but by its private
paid watchers. My son and some of
my friends rushed hastily to the rail.
| road station. They learned I was
being sent into exile. Hastily they
| emptied their own pockets and gave
me what small change they had. ]
was put on the Train unaer SuorQ OF
Luciano Trigos and Jose Arriaga, both
armed plain-clothes detectives of the
department of the interior. They
guarded me all the way up to Laredo
and when we left the train there they
conducted me clear to the immigration
station on the American side of the
Rio Grande. / had just eight pesos
in my pocket. With 1t l paid my head
tax to enter into the United States.
My passport. given me at Laredo by
the Mexican immigration authorities,
described me as political refugee.
Next day at Laredo I found that
my family had telegraphed money for
me there and forwarded my baggage.
Will Write Book.
"What shall ! do in exile? First,
wait for my family. My wife, our
son and daughter. and my son and
two daughters by my first wife are
now packing up in Mexico City. They
will go to Havana by way of Vera
Cruz. Then. when we are reunited.
shall settle down and write antoher
book. Twenty Years Of Revolution in
Mexico | shall call it. I have been
through 1t all I think it Is time the
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