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Show RAID IS MADE ON REVOLUTIONISTS Mexican Newspaper Office Near Los Angeles Is Entered En-tered by U. S. Marshals. Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 18. Enrique En-rique Flores Magon and Rlcardo Flores Magon, brothers and editors of El Regencracion, an avowedly Mexican Mex-ican revolutionary publication, were arrcstod early tonight on charges of using the irfalls to incito murder and revolution, after a fight with doputy United StateB marshals and city detectives, de-tectives, who, armed with warrants baaed on federal Indictments returned return-ed lato today, invaded their newspaper newspa-per plant at Ivanhoe, a suburb. Three Indictments were found, each containing three counts, based on editorials edi-torials "which appeared within the last six month In El Regeneraclon Two indictments were against the Magon brothers, tho third being, it was said, against William C. Owen, who, according to reports at the federal fed-eral building, Is named as editor of the English section of tho newspaper. Owen has not been found. When the officers entered the newspaper news-paper plant, the Magon brothers resisted re-sisted arrest. In the struggle, which occurred in a small room, Enrique Magon was struck on the head by F. G. Thompson, deputy United States marshal, with tho butt of a revolver. Ho was treated at tho receiving hospital hos-pital for a severe scalp wound. Printers Resist Arrest. Rlcardo Magon, according to the officers, also resisted, but was quickly quick-ly overpowered. While the fighting was on, six Mexican printers and a mixed crowd of about fifteen men and women rushed In and sought, so the officers said, to prevent them from taking the Magon brothers away. They were cowed by a display of fire-arms. Tho Magon brothers were taken to the county jail, the hour being too laic for them to provide bonds which had been fixed by United States District Dis-trict Judge Oscar A. Trlppet at 3000 each, when he issued bench warrants The Magon brothers were convicted convict-ed In the United States district court here in July, 1912, on charges of violating the neutrality laws in fomenting fo-menting a revolution in Lower California. Cali-fornia. On that conviction they were sentenced to terms of twenty-three months each on McNeill's Island, Washington. After their conviction the police here wero called upon to disperse a mob of sympathizers that congregated in frout of the federal building. Prior to their arrest here in 1912 the Magon brothers are said to have served sentences in the Arizona state penitentiary at Florence, in connec tlon with their revolutionary propa ganda. The editorial set forth in the first count of the respective indictments was published December 18 last and reads: Charges Against Wilson. "Wilson is in connivance with Car-ranza Car-ranza because the old sharper has promised Wilson that ho would favor American capitalists in Mexico. That is to say, Carranza has promised to deliver the Mexican people, tied hand and foot, to the same rapacious American plutocracy that had Diaz enslaved." The editorial quoted in the second count was published September 25, 1909, and was devoted largely to an appeal to Mexicans to refuse to surrender sur-render their arms to the Carranza government. The third and longest editorial upon up-on which the third count is based, was printed November G, 1915. It urged attacks against the "chiefs and officers" of the de facto government of Mexico. "We, the disinherited, must rid ourselves our-selves of those who arc in our way, if we can, by hook or crook, the same aE we get rid of the tiger, as we annihilate tho rattlesnake, as we crush tho tarantula," one portion of It reads: "Honor points you the road you should take," said another paragraph, para-graph, "rebel against the governments until you obtain the triumph of the principles comprised in the declaration declara-tion of the twenty-third of September, Septem-ber, 1911, expedited by the 'Mexican Liberal party, principles that advocate advo-cate the death of capital, of authority author-ity and the clergy of all religions." |