seeing recruiting going on by Nationalists.
A circular was introduced in evidence, issued by the defendants Erasmo Velazquez and Clemente Soto Velez, which was entitled: "War, war!" Arms were seized by the police at the Nationalist headquarters in Mayaguez, including rifles, bombs, and sabres.
There was also introduced a regulation issued to Nationalists by the defendant Julio H. Velazquez, commander of infantry, which contained a complete exposition of the training of troops and the various infantry weapons.
There was much evidence of shooting and other violence in which members of the Nationalist Party were engaged that was clearly the result of the incendiary and revolutionary speeches of Albizu and of the matter published in La Palabra by Corretjer, and in the other papers referred to, particularly in Armas published by thedefendant Velez, and in accordance with the resolutions adopted at the convention at Caguas on December 8, 1935.
We think the evidence abundantly sustains the charges in the indictment: That the several defendants were all guilty under the first count; that they joined together to induce, incite, and encourage members of the Nationalist Party to join with them to bring about the independence of Puerto Rico by armed revolution against the United States; and that all of the defendants, except Pablo Rosado Ortiz, were guilty under the second count of conspiring with others to incite rebellion and insurrection against the authority of the United States; and that the defendant Pablo Rosardo Ortiz was guilty under the first and third counts of inciting members of the Nationalist Party to join