Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-16

| kSulI M0lCN Qe- mas DTOuBnl dSdiuSl I Colonel Fred s. Breen, editor of the SCoconino Sun, of Flagstaff. The 3gOvernor was put through a gruel-
 Sling cross-examination by Judge | SCampbell His testimony was not
 Scompleted today and he will re-
 $sume the stand tomorrow morning.
 
 PHOENIX, Oct l5.-''To hell with the wari"
 That this intensely patriotic Ameri- can sentiment and a deep concern for the fate Of the bolsheviki were voiced by George w. P. Hunt, governor of Arizona, on the 27th day of February, 1918, is the sworn statement of Prof Harold G. Lawrence. at that time an instructor in the Northern Arizona 1 Normal school. Lawrence's deposi- tIon was today played as the trump card of the defense in the criminal libel action brought by Hunt against Fred $. Breen, editor of the Coconino Sun. and Allan B. Jaynes. editor of the Tucson Citizen, which is being heard before Judge R. c. Stanford in the superior court of Maricopa county.
 The introduction of Lawrence's deposition was a bombshell to the prosecution and to Hunts supporters. The governor never said it and they can't get any evidence that he said | it." the Hunt henchmen have been boosting.
 But the professor swears that Hunt said it. Emphatically and unequivo- cally, Prof Lawrence's statement backs up the article published orig inally in the Sun and copied in the Citizen, upon which the charges are based. Now it is for the jurymen to decide a question of veracsy between Hunt and Lawrence.
 The article that stirred up all the row follows:
 GOVERNOR WORRIES OVER
 BOLSHEVIKI. "A member of the N A. N. faculty had occasion to call on Gov. Hunt re- gently and during the conversation, remarked: Isn't this war terriblei' The amiable governor flashed out, To hell with the war; The govern or, in his conversation, was mainly concerned with the ultimate fate of the Bolsheviki in Russia, seemingly more than in the American side of the case"
 The Professor Affirms. Publication of that article got Hunt and his cohorts all fussed up. He swore out warrants charging Breen, original writer and publisher, and Jaynes, who had copied it, with crim- inal libel But here is what Prof Lawrence deposes in regard to the conversation in question:
 ''The subject of the war was men, toned in the conversation. I re- marked, Isn't this war terriblei We are probably in it for some years Upon which the Governor turned away in his chair toward his desk and in kind of impatient man ner, said in low tone, To hell with the war; The governor then began talking about the Russian situation and the Bolsheviki. I cannot repeat his exact words in this connection, but he seemed much interested in the Bolsheviki, apparently much more than in the American side of the war. I remarked that I thoroughly believed in education, being absolutely loyal to the national government and to the
 
 kind, that this had been my view in the state from which l came and that intended to follow it out in the state of Arizona. To this the governor made no reply"
 This conversation was a private one, no one being present except the governor and his caller. Upon his re- turn to Flagstaff. Prof. Lawrence mentioned the matter to the editor and proprietor of the Sun. Breen asked his permission to publish some thing about the educators conversa- | ton with the governor and that per mission was given, according to Law rence's deposition. This point is re- garded as important by the defense as it shows that Breen did not pub fish any idle gossip or secondhand story. He published the flat-footed statement of an educated man who was willing that the statement be given publication and who has not | been shown to have had any personal animosity against the governor The last interrogation of the Law renee deposition was: State wheth- CT or not said publication scStes the facts regarding what was said by Governor Hunt during the conversa- ton with him at his office as you have narrated"
 To which the deponent answered with one word, Yes"
 Prof Lawrence is a son of Dr. Marion Lawrence. president of the International Sunday School associa- !
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