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tion officers were in the act of leading him to the boundary
line when he bolted and succeeded in escaping by
running through the streets of El Paso. Librado Rivera,
first speaker of the Liberal Junta, with Aaron Mansano,
was kidnapped at St. Louis by city detectives, was hurried
as far as Ironton. Missouri, but was there rescued
and brought back through an exposé which was made by
one of the St. Louis papers.
As for Magon for months he was hunted by detec-
tives from cit y to ' city. He went to California, but was
still kept dodging and once masqueraded as a woman in
order to escape the Diaz hounds. Finally, he revived his
paper in Los Angeles under the name of "Revolucion"
and here he was joined by Villarreal and Rivera. The
three worked quietly together, keeping always indoors in
the daytime and going out for their airing only at night
and in disguise.
Early in August, 1907, the hiding-place of the Liberal
leaders in Los Angeles was located. The evidence seems
to point to a plot to kidnap them much as Sarabia was
kidnapped. First, the officers had plenty of time in
which to procure a warrant, but they did not procure
a warrant nor even attempt to (10 so. Second, they
secreted an automobile in the vicinity and did not use it
after the arrest. Third, when the three men, fearing a
kidnapping plot, cried out at the top of their voices, the
officers beat them with pistols most brutally, Magon being
beaten until he lay bleeding and insensible on the
ground. This circumstantial evidence of a kidnapping
plot is borne out by the direct testimony of one of the
hirelings of the Mexican consul at that time, who has
since confessed that there was such a plot and that the
Mexican consul was the man who hatched it.
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