BarbarousMexico JOHN KENNETH TURNER

AMERICAN PERSECUTION OF ENEMIES OF DIAZ 283
postoffice to waylay the letters of the exiles, put "operatives"
out to hunt somebody to bring libel proceedings
against "Regeneracion," put "operatives" at work to
harass the editors of the paper in every possible way.
Our Postoffice Department, called to aid in the suppression
of "Regeneracion," revoked the second class
privileges which had been properly secured at San
Antonio. But this was insufficient, so two different
parties were brought from Mexico to institute charges
of criminal and civil libel against the editors. The editors
were thrown in jail, the publication stopped. Furlong
detectives stole letters and turned them over to the
Mexican consul, and from these letters, the refugees
claim, was gleaned a list of names which resulted in the
arrest of some three hundred Liberals in Mexico.
The editors got out of jail on bail, whereupon new
charges were prepared to get them back again. But,
having important work to do, they chose to pay their
bail and flee from these charges. Magon and Juan
Sarabia went to Canada and it was here that they carried
on their final correspondence preparatory to launching
an armed rebellion against Diaz. The first gun was to
be fired October 20, 1906, and on the night of October
19 the Liberal leaders gathered at El Paso preparatory to
crossing the line the following morning.
As set forth in a previous chapter, this rebellion was
betrayed and was more or less of a fizzle. Of the refugee
leaders, Juan Sarabia was betrayed into the hands
of Diaz and with scores of others was soon afterwards
sent to the military prison of San Juan de Ulua. Villarreal,
as previously stated, was among those arrested by
the American police. For a long time he fought extradition
on the "murder and robbery" charge and was finally
turned over to the innigration authorities. Immigra-