BarbarousMexico JOHN KENNETH TURNER

AMERICAN PERSECUTION OF ENEMIES OF DIAZ 293
publicly to declare them guilty not only of the offenses
charged, but of others, among them a plot to assassinate
President Diaz, when, as a matter of fact, Lawler had
no evidence whatsoever of such a plot.
After nearly two years in county jails Magon, Villarreal
and Rivera, were adjudged guilty of conspiring to
violate the neutrality laws by conspiring to set on foot a
military expedition against Mexico. They were sentenced
to eighteen months' imprisonment and were confined
in the penitentiary at Florence. Arizona. Sarabia
was not tried. Having waived extradition proceedings,
he had been taken to Arizona ahead of the others. Here
he was released n bail and soon afterwards was married
to Miss Elizabeth D. Trowbridge. a Boston girl
of old and wealthy family. His health broken by long
confinement, believing that a trial would result in his
imprisonment in spite of the lack of evidence against
him, Sarabia was persuaded to pay his bail and with his
wife flee to Europe. There he has since interested himself
in writing for various English, French, Spanish and
Belgian papers articles upon the democratic movements in
Mexico.
The campaign to extradite the refugees on charges of
"murder and robbery," generally failed. It succeeded
insofar as it kept a good many Liberals in jail for many
months, drained their resources, weakened their organization,
and intimidated their friends, but it did not sticceeci
in extraditing them. Most of the Liberals deported
were deported by immigration officials or by kidnapping.
The "murder and robbery" campaign failed because it
was so plainly in contradiction with American laws and
American principles. The U. S. prosecuters must have
known this from the start hut, in order to accommodate
Diaz, they went ahead with the prosecutions. That this