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 street they were stopped by two men, one of whom, called Moreno," asked Ferrer whhere he came from. Ferrer an. swered from the offices of "El Progreso," where were sev- >> cral delegates of "Solidaridad Obrera," to sce if they could corne to an agreement with the delegatcs of the radical party. He asked Moreno to go, but the latter answered they were engaged. Nothing more took place on that even- ing and he (the barber) took the road for his village of Masnou, where on the 28th Ferrer came to his barber-shop at len o'clock in the morning, and asked him to go and call the president of the Republican committee, named Juan Puig, and the two spoke of going to the town harl in order to proclaim there the Republic. They left for Premia de Mar (a neighboring village) and came back about one o'clock. The pcople of the village, fcaring lest the fact of their having been seen with Ferrer would compromise them, then left him. On the 29th Ferrer disappeared from his house, and nobody saw him after that. Two soldiers of a regiment of dragoons declared that on the 26th, while engaged in dissolving groups in the street, their attention was engaged by a man who asked them vhether he could not be allowed to read the proclamation on the wall. This man was dressed in a different manner from the rest of the workingmen; he wore a blue serge suil and a straw hat,2 that is what called their attention rect part of any gort in the events at Barcelona. s1 This barber disappeared from Masnou after his declarations in the Ferrer trial. The "Pals" (of ninth of December, 1909), 50 This Moreno was one of the three members of the Central the declared strike. He afterwards took re- Paris Bud from there wrote a let ter to the "Pais" In which he Baid be met Ferrer at the statlon that morning, but did not say anything about seetng blm in the eventng. That same Moreno, who ought to know, being one of 'the three members of the Central Committee of the strike, wrote: "Ferrer has taken no di- Committee who fuge in the sald he had gone to America with money paid him by the "DefensR Social," the Cathone association. D2 This description recalls that famous man In Salamanca who once sent his little boy to look for a certain student who wore a black mantle !