The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-20
AFTER 81 ITS SCALP.
FoRmIDAl sLE DOCUMENT.
rh. Ffre chief Secures His Second
Bond.man an las No Deabs OF
the Res az OF fri.i.

Chief HINT of y he fire department in
tends 10 30 To Tao oua today TO plead TO
the Indictment or which he was arrested
nivht bafore last l. Is expected that the
trial will take MAJ 10 in the near future,
and Of m. rssnlt he chief has no doubt
He saws he does n Dt are 10 be interviewed
ON What he will n rove or the evidence he
ha. AT hand hut sels confident of being
cleared Of the cha Lses- a great oeal OF
talk has been made about Chief
HINTS conpsctio n With q fire depart
nent in Canada AM the inference has
been drawn Nv ms my that 20 belong to the
fra connanv refe1 red TO made il necessary
for one To be a lbject OF Great Britain.
TWAS a voluntee, company aud 1t is ex-
pected that IN. III LEI will bring evidences
to show that n ha nothing to do with the
case. otherwise han to show that the
chief lived in Cam sda at 9 certain time.
The chief had n 10 trouble yesterday in
getting a second n ondsman, several people
volunteering. ID J. q. o. Guy, however,
was chosen, and vas accepted py eierA
Hopkins. of the United States district
court.
MAYOR Phelns Ill not express any opin-
ion in the mats ~ otherwise than to say
that an insiictmer { is one-sided affair,
and until n ma, s proven guilty he is
innocent Nothir HDg viii be done by the
fire commissioned, D until the next meeting.
Chief HINTS All orr sy yesterday received
from Tacoma cory of the indictment
found bv the Pie Zee county grand jury
a0ains. his clisnd : Z sets forth the facts
adduced from th . evidence given before
that body:
"That on octc Der "a. 1892, in Pierce
county n Hunt unlawfully, know
ingIv and felonia1 uely did obtain, receive
and accent a certa in certificate of citizen
shin to'wit. certain certificate and
document issuad rom the superior court
of the state of " ashington TOR Pierce
copntv anil haar; |ng date October "a, 1892,
and showipg A n Il unit, before that time
an alien 10 have been then naturalized
and admitted az citlzen of the United
states thu issns Il Mich. said document
and certitics,a az the time and place of its
heino % ohtaipeo accepted and received,
was fraudulentlv an uniawfully procured
and obtained by the said A. B. Hunt in
this thar 4 n fFN m at the time of pro-
curing sama did n |aise v represent himself
TO have then residXN NAthAn saiu tnited
States for 4 va veaE |rs. whereas in truth he
had not rasiiad In the United States for
five wears ne Vn% st GO that time knowing
full we'll same TO have been procured by
fraud, etc."
The same verh iage is repeated in four
different naragyM aphs, each embodying
the same charge nnamely, that A. Il. Hunt
received a certificy |Hte of citizenship October
q 1892. that VAS fraudulently procured to
be issued bv som Q person or persons, who
fraudulentlv rem, csen ted to the court that
HINT had resid led within the United
States for three ears next preceding his
arriving AZ the al . o. 81, and that Hunt
had resided in M United States continu-
ouslv. Including The said three years of his
minority. for =, eriod of five years before
October % 1899 ehereas in truth he had
dons nothiny ~ the kind. Also that
Hunt and othe p falsely represented to
the court that m, ent was then more than
u. and that he Aunt. being under n at
the time of his arrival in the
Initad Stat. had resided in the
United States to- three years preceding
his arriving at al D age of n years and that
he had resided inl tie United States for
five wears coutiI nuously, including the
three wears of Ris minAity, whereas in
truth. with a nee atlve repetition of all the
allegations. he nj done all these things
"falselv fraudnl1 entity" etc.
The same thing - repeated with the
addition that al october "a, 1892, A. b.
Hunt had in his pos ession a certain false.
forged and commit erielt certificate of oiti-
Zenship made in ' ''''i'.,s"oo VI eenu-
inc certificate of citzehshlp ISSUED Dy
court of record al this state and purport-
ing to have been lssuea uhuer the provl-
sion of the laws the United States relat-
ing 10 naturaliy alton and bearing date
october % 1902 pur porting to show A. b.
Hunt, before the al ahen' 70 nave oeen
there naturalze& ahu admitted as a eitl-
zen of the United states with intent TO
unawfuiiy use tf4 - aPef IN the exercise OF
the suffrage and rights OF Citizenship, he
knowing same al be false. etc.
The naner il usigned by w. II. Brinker.
United States az, or ey, ana on the lower
left-hand corner Ia hst OF the witnesses
who testified, ma NE uaraner helIogg,
Thomas J. keleE, FRANK La wall, =. ID.
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