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 cannot go any further?" the Republican party, which has nothing to do with this affair; now as for those who have the direction of it, they will see what they must do." Ferrer, seeing the emphasis of his words, remained silent and left the place.* A barber fromn the village of Masnou, Francisco Domen. ech, makes the following deelaration: On the evening of the 26th, he happened to be in Barcelona, and saw Ferrer taking coffee in front of the Labor Lyceum, and Ferrer invited him to join to take coffee.7 From there they went to the offices of "El Progreso" to sec what the comrades had decided to do, according to what Ferrer told him; after that they went to the Cafe Aribau where they met Ponte, Tuban and Litrants and his wife; he does not know what they spoke about, but they asked him to go to the offices of "Solidaridad Obrera" to see if he could find there any of Ferrer's partisans; he refused to do this, pretending he was tired. Then Ferrer asked Litran to go; the latter came back saying that the offices of the society were closed. Later on they went to the offices of "El Progreso," Ferrer say- ing that he had not found what he wanted; he spoke there to some men who were in the place, and when they went out Ferrer told him that Iglesias49 and the others had re- fused to sign a doeument in which the Government was asked to stop the sending of troops to Morocco. "I think so, at least for On the ter, who iater on corrected him- selt and said when he was con- tronted with Ardid, that he re- membered baving seen that gen- tleman on . the 28th, but could not Bay whether or not it was in the "Peopte': House," since he Day' very ikely have gone there when be was. fooking for Litran. " If Ferrer 'had been tbe leader of the Insnrgents it would have been absard for, him to seek, the Bolopany: of an outrider. thus fur- nleking bimselt with a witness of Bla: manoeuvres, he secretary of the Barce- lona branch of the "League for the Rational Educatlon of Chil- dren," the Bame who was arrested Rnd deported to Alcaniz along with Ferrer's wife and brother. It ig to be noted that he was not Called to be cross-examined at the trial, in order to verlfy the accuracy of the witness' state- ments, although this should bave bęen done according to the Code of Military Justice (Art. 436). The tria! was full of 'such Irreg- ularltles. Republican party.
 * This was first denied by Fer-
 * One of the leaders of the