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Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday November 22, 1922
Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, Kansas – Ricardo Flores Magón Dead at Age 48
From The Leavenworth Post of November 21, 1922
DEATH COMES TO POLITICAL PRISONER
AT FEDERAL PRISON
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Ricardo [Flores] Magon, Noted RevolutionistVictim of Heart Disease Early Today.
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Ricardo [Flores] Magon, noted Mexican revolutionist and generally regarded as an anarchist, died in the Federal prison early this morning. The body was removed to the Davis Undertaking establishment awaiting word from relatives. Marie B. Magon, his wife, resides at 2132 Fargo street, Los Angeles.Magon called an attendant at 4:30 o’clock this morning and said he was not feeling well. He had retired in bis usual health. A physician was called and it was discovered Magon was suffering with an acute attack of heart disease. While the physician was preparing a dose of medicine, Mason died.
Magon lad served terms in three penitentiaries. In 1912 he was arrested in Arizona on a charge of violating the neutrality laws. The trial resulted in conviction and he was sentenced to serve a year and a day in the Yuma state penitentiary. He was next arrested in June, 1916, on charges of obstructing the military service, violating the trading with the enemy act, mailing unmailable matter and conspiracy against the government.
The trial resulted in a conviction on all charges and he was given a total sentence of 21 years in the Federal prison at McNeil Island. On November 3, 1919, Magon was transferred to the Federal penitentiary here.
Since Magon has been in the Federal prison there have been several efforts to obtain his freedom by so-called radical organizations.
[Photograph and emphasis added.]
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SOURCES
Quote Freedom Ricardo Flores Magon,
Speech re Prisoners of Texas, May 31, 1914
https://isreview.org/issue/101/intervention-and-prisoners-texas
The Leavenworth Post
(Leavenworth, Kansas)
-Nov 21, 1922
https://www.newspapers.com/image/111309581/
IMAGE
Ricardo Flores Magon 14596, Leavenworth Pen, Nov 3, 1919
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/magon/images/rick.html
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/117689452
See also:
Nov 22, 1922, Leavenworth Post KS
-Ricardo Flores Magon Mourned as a Martyr in Mexico City
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113478185/nov-22-1922-leavenworth-post-ks/
Nov 23, 1922, Leavenworth Times KS
-Body of Ricardo Flores Magon, “The Scorpion,” Shipped to Los Angeles
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113478425/nov-23-1922-leavenworth-times-body-of/
Nov 27, 1922, Leavenworth Post KS
-Hundreds View Body of Ricardo Flores Magon in Los Angeles
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113478679/nov-27-1922-leavenworth-post/
Search: Nov 23-30, 1922, La Prensa (San Antonio TX) with “Magon”
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?state=Texas&lccn=&dateFilterType=range&date1=11%2F23%2F1922&date2=11%2F30%2F1922&language=&ortext=&andtext=&phrasetext=magon&proxtext=&proxdistance=5&rows=20&searchType=advanced&sort=date
American Political Prisoners
Prosecutions Under the Espionage and Sedition Acts
-Stephen Martin Kohn
Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994
(search: magon)
https://books.google.com/books?id=-_xHbn9dtaAC
Ricardo Flores Magón (September 16, 1874 – November 21, 1922)
https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/ricardo-flores-magon/index.html
Tag: Ricardo Flores Magón
https://weneverforget.org/tag/ricardo-flores-magon/
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The Ballad of Ricardo Flores Magon