Hellraisers Journal – Friday March 5, 1909
Antonio de Pío Araujo Sentenced to More Than Two Years at Leavenworth
From the Appeal to Reason of February 27, 1909:
LETTER FROM MRS. SARABIA
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Antonio de Pío Araujo
As we go to press we are in receipt of a letter from Elizabeth Trowbridge Sarabia, wife of Manuel Sarabia, one of the Mexican patriots awaiting trial. The following excerpts will be of interest to our readers:
One of the worst features of these Mexican cases is that so many of them come and go and the public seem to take no interest, regardless of the atrocities committed and of the precedents set to use later against the American workers. One of the worst of all has taken place recently in San Antonio, Tex., where on the 21st of January, a young man named Antonio de P. Araujo, was sentenced to two years and six months in the penitentiary at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., for the awful crime of being an associate editor of a Mexican Liberal paper published in the United States. There certainly is “liberty of the press” in this “free republic!”
I am trying to find out if it is not possible to appeal the case and am wiring regarding it, as there are probably five or six days in which an appeal can be brought now, that is, if the same thirty-day rule from the time of conviction holds in Texas as here. It seems as though something must be done in so glaring an instance. The man is well educated an exceptionally brilliant. The testimony against him was not only false but absurd.
Araujo is anxious that the Appeal be informed of his case, for he, like the rest of us, knows that you never turn a deaf ear to the cry of the helpless, especially of those who are fighting the battle of humanity.
If our fight for freedom is won-and we trust that it will be-much of our success will be due to the Appeal.
The following is a paragraph taken from a letter addressed to Mrs. Sarabia, by an eye witness to the trial and conviction of Araujo:
I attended the trial and if there was ever an outrage perpetrated in the name of the republic it was in the federal court within one hundred yards and right under the shadow of the Alamo where Crockett and his comrades fell bleeding for the cause of liberty for which Comrade Araujo was condemned to two and a half years in prison. They left here last night with Araujo for Ft. Leavenworth, Kan.
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