Revolution a la con carne plotted here

Nº 131

AHSRE L-E-932 (2) FFF. 338 y 339

Saint Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri.

23 de junio de 1908

Revolution a la con carne plotted here

Mexican Zealots Keep Up a Long Distance Attack on Diaz With Cold Type.

Leaders behind bars

St. Louis Sieuths Trail Bank Robbers Who Got $300,000 to Yucatan.

Although fought by the governments of the United States and Mexico, its leaders jailed and its property confiscated, the Mexican revolutionary junta, which formerly made its headquarters here, continues to do business.

Instead of the publication it formerly issued in St. Louis, breathing defiance to President Porfirio Diaz, it now issues two newspapers, one at Los Angeles, Cal., and the other at Austin, Tex. The latter is a new sheet, copies of which recently have been received at the office of the Furlong Secret Service Co. in the Chemical Building.

The issue of June 15 last urges all readers to unite in taking possession forcibly of the City of Mexico and wiping out the present Government with “Remingtons, batteries, armaments and explosives of war.” It is published in Spanish. Antonio de P. Araujo is the director of the publication and Tomas Sarabia is one of its editors.

Relatives Are Prisoners.

Sarabia is a brother of Manuel Sarabia and a cousin of Juan Sarabia, both of whom were connected with the junta headquarters in St. Louis along with Antonio Villarreal and Flores Magón.

Juan Sarabia is now serving a seven year sentence in a Vera Cruz prison for his efforts to interfere with the Government of the sister republic.

Manuel Sarabia is now in Jail at Tombstone, Ariz. He is to be tried there in the fall in connection with the murder of 35 Americans at the Greene copper mines at Cananea, Mex., last August.

Manuel Sarabia is charged with being concerned in the plot to murder these Americans. He is to be tried in Arizona because, it is charged, the plot was formed there, although its execution took place across the border.

180 Held in Mexico.

Sarabia only recently was removed to the Tombstone Jail from Los Angeles, where he, Magon, Villareal and Librado Rivera have been incarcerated since their arrest there by Thomas Furlong, head of the St. Louis detective agency in January of this year, after a chase of several months.

Lopez Manzano, another associate, who was also in St. Louis, is in Jail at the Mexican capital.

According to Furlong, about 180 of the followers of these men have been arrested in Mexico.

“There are about 14,000 followers of these men”, Furlong told a Post Dispatch reporter. They are principally in the states of Sonora and Chihuahua. They call themselves Liberalists. Their papers are “red” publications, nothing else. If the junta gets enough money it will quit.

Roosevelt is Denounced.

“The publications issued by this junta are not only directed against Diaz and other Mexican officials, but they denounce President Roosevelt and Attorney General Bonaparte bitterly. They also criticise Secretary of State Root for his trip to Mexico last year”.

Furlong has spent two years chasing Sarabia, Villareal and Magon for the Mexican Government. He has a special assistant engaged in translating their publications so he may keep informed of developments.

Furlong returned recently from Yucatan, where he went to obtain evidence in connection with the robbery of the Bank of Manero in March, when $300,000 in new bank notes was stolen.

Scorned a Million, Took $300,000.

“The robers got into the bank's vaults and had the opportunity to help themselves to a million dollars in gold or silver, if they desired,” he said: “But they took the new bank notes, instead. They took 1000 $100 bills. After getting away they were afraid to circulate them.

So they mailed one third of them back to the bank, first cutting each of the bills into three pieces.

“Through the postmarks the bills were found to have come from the town of Progreso, Yucatan. I have just returned from a trip there to obtain evidence. Several arrests have been made, but I cannot discuss what I found in Progreso, as we are still hunting another man”.