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...over 30 years Eduardo Barriobero was a Clarence Darrow of Spain. Brilliant, provocative, radical, he pleaded many a completely hopeless case and was never happier than when he had a political martyr to defend. Violently anticlerical and stanchly antimonarchist, he could have stepped right out of a Blasco Ibañez novel. He was such an individualist that no pat modern political name-calling would fit him, no government could have suited him. More a syndicalist than anything else, he belonged to the fast dwindling group of Spanish Federalists...
Shortly after the war started se४r Barriobero became the presiding judge of the anarchists' revolutionary "People's Tribunal" in Barcelona, where he prided himself on following his own personal principles of justice. He soon ran afoul of the Loyalist Government, was accused of pocketing some of the fines he collected, was finally imprisoned in a hospital. Three weeks ago, when Generalissimo Francisco Franco's troops took Barcelona, se४r Barriobero remained behind, of his own volition. Last week, a broken, stoop-shouldered, tired old man, he was tried before a military tribunal in the same court...
There were 13 counts against Lawyer Barriobero, ranging from accusations that he took part in the assault on the Montana Barracks in Madrid and that he helped sack a Madrid convent, to the fact that he was a militant 33rd-degree Mason. Summed up Captain Jose Rodriguez, the military prosecutor...
Replied Defendant Barriobero: "I am an old man and I know my time is near. I may have been guilty of common crimes, but I am not guilty of capital crimes. If I took sums of money through fines, it was to keep up revolutionary appearances among my comrades. I am not an anarchist. I am a radical anticlerical Freemason...
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