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ing he saw a group of rioters on the Rambla in front of the 

 Lyceum, apparently commanded by a man whom he closely 

 observed from the manner of his actions. He heard him 

 order the rioters to march through the Calle de Hospital. As 

 soon as he afterward saw a photograph of Ferrer, he recog- 

 nized him. On the examination, he readily picked out Ferrer 

 as the person he had seen. Ferrer never denied that he wore 

 a blue suit and a straw hat during those days. 



On Wednesday, July 28, the second great day of the riots 

 and pillage, Ferrer was exceedingly active, according to the 

 witnesses. In the morning he came to the barber shop of 

 Domenech and ordered him to get the president of the Repub- 

 lican Committee, Juan Ventura Puig (alias Llarch), and see 

 if he could not do something. Puig came, and Ferrer pro- 

 posed to him to go to the City Hall and proclaim the Repub- 

 lic; but Puig refused, saying that he would not compromise 

 himself. Puig, while on the witness-stand, declared that once 

 before, in a cafe in Calle de Puerto Rico, when he objected 

 to doing such things because the people ought to be behind 

 him in such a movement, Ferrer insisted that "then he ought 

 to begin by stirring up the people, so that a lot of them would 

 go out and burn churches and convents." Puig further ob- 

 jected that he did not see how the Republic would come by 

 such means, but Ferrer cut him short with, "The Republic 

 doesn't matter ; the question is, there should be a revolution" ; 

 and then added a moment later : "Very well, we will have to 

 destroy everything." 



Esteban Puigmollens testified that later in that day he saw 

 Ferrer addressing a group of rioters, and Salvador Millet said 

 that a number of them entered the mayor's office at Masnou 

 and began to address the crowd in the name of Ferrer. On 

 this same day, the witness, Francisco Valvet, testified that at 

 half-past twelve at the club-house of the Fraternidad Republi- 

 cana at Premia (a village on the outskirts of Barcelona) two 

 persons presented themselves, one of whom was Puig and the 

 other a man in a summer suit and straw hat, who said, "I am 

 Ferrer Guardia," and thereupon sent for the mayor, Domingo 

 Casas Llibre, who came over, accompanied by the witnesses 

 Antonio Mustareo, the vice-mayor, and Jose Alvarez Espinosa, 

 the aldermanic clerk. When they arrived, he again announced 

 that he was Ferrer, and, turning to the mayor, said : 



