Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Modesta Ávila (1867 or 1869 – September 1891) was a protestor in Orange County, California who became the county's first convicted felon and first state prisoner. Avila had only received a minor warning in 1889 for placing an obstruction on the tracks to protest against the Santa Fe Railroad being built through her property without adequate compensation, but she continued to taunt the authorities, and was eventually arrested four months later.Although the jury in her first trial was unable to reach agreement, Avila was convicted after a second trial at Orange County Supreme Court and was sentenced to three years in San Quentin State Prison. She died there of pneumonia in September 1891 after serving two years and seven months of her sentence. Today Avila is considered to be a folk heroine of Latino people of the county, and is suggested as the \"White Lady\", a ghost said to haunt the area, reported to have been seen walking along the railroad tracks since the 1930s."@en }
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- Modesta_Avila abstract "Modesta Ávila (1867 or 1869 – September 1891) was a protestor in Orange County, California who became the county's first convicted felon and first state prisoner. Avila had only received a minor warning in 1889 for placing an obstruction on the tracks to protest against the Santa Fe Railroad being built through her property without adequate compensation, but she continued to taunt the authorities, and was eventually arrested four months later.Although the jury in her first trial was unable to reach agreement, Avila was convicted after a second trial at Orange County Supreme Court and was sentenced to three years in San Quentin State Prison. She died there of pneumonia in September 1891 after serving two years and seven months of her sentence. Today Avila is considered to be a folk heroine of Latino people of the county, and is suggested as the \"White Lady\", a ghost said to haunt the area, reported to have been seen walking along the railroad tracks since the 1930s.".