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able the railroads, etc. One of them winds up with : "Work- 

 men, prepare yourselves. The hour is at hand!" Annexed 

 thereto is a recipe for the manufacture of dynamite. 



Among other things they clearly demonstrated that Ferrer 

 had been actively connected with every conspiracy to overturn 

 established authority in Spain since 1883; that on every occa- 

 sion he was in active correspondence with the leaders of those 

 movements, and was in touch with everything they did — the 

 years 1885, 1892, 1898, clear down to the attempt to kill the 

 king in Madrid in 1906, by Mateo Morral. It was a curious 

 coincidence, to say the least, that he was always on hand on 

 each of these occasions, and always in close consultation with 

 the men who did the deeds. His correspondence, circulars, 

 and statements all preached social revolution and advocated its 

 bringing about by force and rebellion. He himself claimed 

 toward the last, and his partisans nowadays maintain, that 

 he was merely a philosophic anarchist, and that he had aban- 

 doned his former doctrines of violence and dynamite. But 

 they do not deny that he was an anarchist, and in active touch 

 and correspondence with the advocates of violence, even 

 almost down to his death. 



The prosecution adduced proof which followed Ferrer's 

 acts throughout the riots until the troops began to subdue 

 the rioters — when Ferrer disappeared from the city — covering 

 three days in all. The summary of this evidence may be here 

 given, day by day. 



On Monday, July 26, the day when the rioters began to 

 clash with the police, Ferrer was seen by the witnesses, Angel 

 Fernandez Bermejo, Claudio Sanchez, and Manuel Cabro, 

 among certain riotous groups in formation in the Plaza de 

 Antonio Lopez, at about six o'clock in the afternoon. A de- 

 tachment of mounted men dispersed these rioters, and Ferrer 

 thereupon went toward the Puerta de la Paz, where he was 

 again engaged in addressing another group. On the police 

 coming toward them, he went on down the Rambla, the prin- 

 cipal street in Barcelona. The proprietor of the Hotel Inter- 

 nacional, on the Rambla, testified that Ferrer dined there. 

 Francisco Domenech, a barber and a partizan of Ferrer, testi- 

 fied that he met Ferrer at the Hotel Internacional at half-past 

 nine that night, and from there they went to the editorial office 

 of "El Progreso," "to see how the comrades were getting on." 



