Biography
Pedro Perales was one of the Mexican revolutionaries convicted in the 1913 Rangel-Cline case in Texas, captured with the party crossing to join the Mexican Revolution and imprisoned at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville until the group's 1926 pardon.
The June 1925 labor-press political-prisoner birthday notice lists him — spelled Pedro Paroles — at the Blue Ridge State Farm, Hobby, Texas, still imprisoned twelve years after the Rangel-Cline convictions. The notice gives his birthday as June 19, while a similar 1924 list reportedly gave June 29: the June month is secure, the day awaits a prison record (no birth year is given).
The International Labor Defense holiday roster in the December 29, 1925 Daily Worker lists this prisoner, printed as Pedro Paroles, at Blue Ridge State Farm Hobby Texas. This documents confinement at the roster’s reporting time, without establishing an admission, transfer, release, new conviction or complete duration. Existing independently sourced custody chronology remains separate. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1925/1925-ny/v02b-n297-NYE-dec-29-1925-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5
1920s custody review: Released in August1926 following a full pardon by Governor MiriamA.Ferguson. The August24,1926 DailyWorker names all six freed men, including this prisoner. An August21dispatch separately discusses the pardon and threatened rearrest. The evidence supports August, not an exact physical-release day; neither the publication day nor the pardon announcement is used as that day.
Sources: Daily Worker, August24,1926, pages1-2; Devine News, August26,1926, page1, including August21dispatch. Existing portraits are retained; no exact admission date is inferred.
His June 1 letter from Hobby State Farm describes fourteen years already held, a twenty-five-year imposed term and a hope to return home in eight or ten months. The rounded fourteen years conflicts with the independently described 1913 prosecution chronology and is retained as his retrospective account. The hoped-for release is not entered as actual discharge or a measured final term.
