44 ANDREW J. SHIPMAN MEMORIAL 



"I come to tell you that you must proclaim the republic in 

 Premia." 



The Mayor said : "Seiior, I won't take those orders." 



Then Ferrer said : "Why not, when the Republic is pro- 

 claimed in Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, and other cities?" 



The witnesses who testified to these facts were not only 

 Valvet, but the mayor, vice-mayor, and clerk, and also Jaime 

 Comas, Pedro Cesa, Lorenzo Amau, and Jaime Calve, who 

 were present in the club-house at the interview. Ferrer was 

 squarely confronted on four occasions with the witnesses 

 Lorenzo Ardid, Ventura Puig (or Llarch), Casas Llibre, the 

 mayor, and Alvarez Espinosa, who maintained to his face 

 their testimony as to his actions and statements; and Ferrer 

 had to admit the fact that he was with them. 



A carpenter, Rosendo Gudas, testified that on July 27 he 

 was fixing a door in Ferrer's house, and Ferrer stopped, in 

 passing, and said to him : "Now what does Tiana (a nick- 

 name for the village) think? It is about time now to burn 

 down everything." 



On the 28th a street orator at Masnou, at the edge of Barce- 

 lona, explained to the crowd of rioters which he was address- 

 ing that he had just come from Ferrer and that Ferrer could 

 not get around to address them. A multitude of other pieces 

 of circtmistantial evidence, pointing to Ferrer's presence and 

 activity during those days in different parts of the city, show- 

 ing all the elements of suggestion and direction, was also 

 offered. A curious fact, much more than mere coincidence, 

 was that detachments of the rioters were officered by the 

 teachers in Ferrer's schools, and that the severest outbreaks 

 took place in precisely the districts where those schools and 

 allied clubs were situated. 



Francisco Domenech, the Masnou barber, testified that on 

 the morning of July 29 he shaved Ferrer completely, taking 

 off his beard. Bruno Humbert on that afternoon found 

 Ferrer's villa locked and bolted and the occupants gone. 

 Among others who testified to Ferrer's activity preceding the 

 riots were Manuel Jimenez Moya, a newspaper man of radical 

 opinions like Ferrer's, Marcisco Verdaguet, Baldomero Bonet, 

 himself prosecuted for arson in the riots, Modesto Lara, and 

 Alfredo Garcia Magallon, most of whom had had close rela- 

 tions with the accused. 



