BarbarousMexico JOHN KENNETH TURNER

AMERICAN PERSECUTION OF ENEMIES OF DIAZ 277
Maza could not bribe. It was Franklin B. Dorr, who
was running the Douglas Daily Examiner.
In his paper Dorr raised a protest that stirred the
blood of the people of Douglas. Street meetings were
held to further arouse the people. Mother Jones was
there. A crowd looked for Maza with a rope. Telegraphic
appeals were sent to the state and national
governments. \nd iinally—Saralia was shamefacedly
returned.
\Vliat would have happened to Sarahia if his voice
had not been heard on that night in June, 1907? Exactly
what has happened to others whose frightened
voices have not been heard. He would have dropped
out of sight and no one would ever have been able to
say for certain where he had gone.
And what, pray, happened to the kidnappers? Absolutely
nothing.
Consul Maza, Ranger Hayhurst, Lee Thompson, city
jailer, Constable Shorpshire, Henry Elvey, the chauffeur,
and some private detectives whose names were never
given to the public seem plainly to have been guilty of
the crime of kidnappinn which is punishable by imprisonment
in the penitentiary. Those named were arrested
and the first four were duly held to answer to the upper
court sitting at Douglas. Elvey made a clean breast
of the case and the evidence seemed conclusive. But
as soon as the excitement had blown over every one of
the cases was quietly dropped. It was not Sarabia's
fault, for an effort was made to bribe Sarabia to leave
town and Sarabia refused the bribe. Evidently the
money which had bribed Hayhurst, Thompson and
Shorpshire was not all the money that was used by
Maza at that time.
Nearly every small town along the Mexican border