Piute Chieftain | 1917-02-15 | Page 3 | Unjustly Sent to Death

UNJUSTLY SENT TO DEATH spanish tribunals after his execution concede that ferrer was not guilty of extreme offense spanish republicans socialists anarchists ts and radicals of all degrees celebrate january 10 as tho the birthday of francisco ferrer who convicted of having incited revolutionary riots in barcelona was executed in 1009 ferrer was wag in many ways a remarkable man a fanatic of unbelief who accepted death as bravely as any martyr of the faith that he was unjustly convicted and executed has since been decided by tribunal which generally considered the case months after the death of the victim and as gravely handed down a decision that ferrer was innocent of the charges made against him I 1 ferrer was bom in a village near barcelona on january 10 1859 early in life he became a shop boy and then a ticket inspector on a spanish railway although he had bad few educational advantages he was naturally a student and spent all his spare time reading and studying scientific and philosophical works he early became an opponent of the church and a republican and his intellectual abil ity won for him a place among the leaders of the spanish anti clericals and anti monarchists