Three more mexicans are arrested in Texas

Nº 69

AHSRE L-E-921 F. 115

St. Louis Globe Democrat, St. Louis, Missouri

27 de noviembre de 1906.

Three more mexicans are arrested in Texas

Alleged to be Jimenez rioters Government may refuse extradition.

Special Dispatch to the Globe Democrat.

WASHINGTON, november 26. The department of justice was informed to day by the United States district attorney of the western district of Texas of the arrest of three Mexicans at Eagle Pass, Tex., at the request of the Mexican government, which seeks to extradite them on charges of assault, robbery and murder. The three Mexicans are Pedro N. Gonzalez, Demetrio V. Castro and Crescencio Villarreal Marquez, as he was known.

These arrest are a part of the propaganda which the Mexican government is carrying on with a view to driving out of the United States and into Mexico the members of the revolutionary junta which has been operating in this country for months, and bears a relation to the arrest of Mexicans in St. Louis recently who are alleged to be members of the revolutionary junta.

Although there is a lack of official information on the point, there is reason for believing that the three men just arrested in Texas are wanted in connection with the rioting in Jimenez, in the state of Coahuila, in Mexico. If this be true, there is some doubt as to it were of more or less political nature, and this government has been very particular to guard against the extradition of accused men on any charge that can even be construed as of a political nature.

Although as recently stated this government sympathizes with the Mexican government in its effort to break up the revolutionary junta in this country, yet it will do nothing contrary to the strict letter and spirit of the law and the spirit of our institutions. In all the Mexican government is trying to secure the persons of no less than sixty five Mexicans in this country associated with the revolutionary junta maintained here.

Today a report was received at the immigration bureau of the department of Antonio Villarreal who is under arrest at El Paso, Texas, and against whom the immigration officials are proceeding at the instigation of the Mexican government.

The secretary stated that he had not yet examined it, and the bureau officials refused to state what its nature is. From another thoroughly reliable source it is learned that the report from a board of special inquiry, consisting of three immigration officials at El Paso. After an exhaustive inquiry, that board deliberated and two of the three members decided that Villarreal should not be deported under the immigration law. The third member of the board favored his deportation.

There were some proceeding against the Mexicans under the neutrality laws, but these have been discontinued without exception, so far as it can be learned. Word was received to day that the proceedings of this nature against Villarreal have been dismissed by the United States attorney in Mexico.