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Show oo RELEASE OF BLATT AND CONVERSE MEXICO CITY, April 21. Two old men, one the president of Mexico, and the other an attorney of Loo Angeles, and the father of a boy confined In a Mexican prlGon, today chatted In a neighborly fashion for 15 minutes over a subject that has brought Into action all the machinery of two state departments. depart-ments. At the conclusion, the father waE promlced that his son would be set free. The attorney was C. H. Converse, father fa-ther of Lawrence Converse, who has been In jail for some months at Juarez Jua-rez on a charge of having participated In the Mexican revolution as a filibuster. filibus-ter. The father came to Mexico not In his capacity as an attorney to argue the case of his son, but s'mply as a father. When he left the office of the president presi-dent it was with the assurance not only that would his own son be released, re-leased, but that Edwin Blatt, the other young man who has bocn held on the sams charge, would also be freed. The two boys will be taken to Los Angeles by Mr. Converse. General Diaz has promised Converse that he will send to him tomorrow a letter addressed to the authorities at Juarez Instructing them to release the two boys to Converse. Relating the story of the conference, Converse characterized It as being like that of "two old neighbors." "Not once," eald he, "did the president presi-dent ask an cmbarrassinp question or make a remark calculated to hurt my feellngc. It was simply the case of two old men talking over the action of a son who had gotten into trouble. I was not aGked to,gJve any reasons why my boy should be released, and I did not." President Diaz asd Mr. Converse how old his boy was. "He is Just 21," replied the father. "Has the boy a mother7" asked the president. "Yes," "Would you be willing to take the boy back home with you and look after hm and see that he remains away from Mexico?" The father assured him that he would be glad to do so. "Then," said the president, "I will have him released. You had better take him Immediately to hio mother, for she, I presume, will be worried." As a result of a few minutes more of much the same conversation the president said he would rolease them If Converse would agree to assume responsibility re-sponsibility ?s regards hlo aga'n getting get-ting In trouble with the Mexican authorities. |
