in the Plaza de Armas at San Juan in 1934 Albizu declared that every Puerto Rican home should be converted into an armed arsenal, in order to overthrow by means of force the Yankee imperialism in Puerto Rico; that in the Plaza Munoz Rivera in October, 1935, he said that the citizens must prepare and arm themselves with revolvers, rifles, and shotguns and machetes in order to overthrow the American government, cutting their heads off; and again in August, 1934, he said that the people of Mayaguez were a lot of cowards; that instead of receiving President Roosevelt with flowers, they should have received him with bullets.
Following these exhortations to arm, there was much shooting of both policemen and Nationalists, and finally Colonel Riggs, chief of police, wasshot by Nationalists while returning from church, which Albizu attributed to the oath previously taken at his suggestion at the interment of certain Nationalists in a former encounter with the police.
There was also evidence of the attendance of Corretjer, Luis Velazquez, Velez, Erasmo Velazquez, and Juan Gallardo Santiago at a convention of the national council of the Nationalist Party at Caguas held in December, 1935, at which Albizu spoke for two hours, concluding with the appeal: "To arms, to arms!" saying, among other things, "that the Nationalists should prepare themselves with arms suitable not for picking teeth, but that shot well, and that the citizens should be in a position to repel by any means, even by killing, an illegal search."
The defendant Corretjer was the secretary of the