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Show MOTHER OF CONVERSE ACTIVE IN HIS BEHALF l.os Angeles, Feb. 24. "I will save my boy If I havo to go to Moxlco City nnd go upon my knees before President Presi-dent Diaz,"-sald Mrs. Flora Converse on her departure for Juarez, Mexico, ostorday. ' When lnf owned that I.avvrenco Converge, Con-verge, her " twonty-ono-yenr-old son, i.riI been anested whllo bearing "arms against a foielgn government and tated tho punishment of a rebel soldier, sol-dier, Mrs. Convorso mado hurried preparations pre-parations for her departure. Prior to this sho telegraphed the United States consul at Juoiez to engage counsel to represent her son until the father, Chnries H. Converse, an at-toiney, at-toiney, who Is at present In I.owis-ton, I.owis-ton, 111. l.awienco Convorso, the oung American Am-erican reported arrested as a lebel at Juarez, Moxlco., by tho Mexican fed-eial fed-eial trops, is a son of Charles II. Converse, a lawyer, who lives at (llondora, Cal. Tho young man, who m about 22 years old, has been at the Glendora homo Intermlttontly during tho last Tour or rivo years, but not within tho last six months Reports were received lotelj to the effect thai he had Joined the rovolutlonarj forces in Mexico, Young Con vo bo was a member "of the California national guard. Ho served for awhllo as a firo warden In the mountains north of Glendora. |