Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-25
HUNTS OWN STORY UNDER OATH IN COURT OF HIS RELATIONS WITH |. N. M. LEADERS
 AND ALIEN ENEMIES AND PART HE TOOK IN
 CIRCULATING SINCLAIR TREASON PROPAGANDA
The First Installment Deals Exclusively With His Int
 macy With One C. w. Kastner, Alien Enemy and German Consprator Whom Hunt Bailed Out of Jail and Gave Place on the State Payroll and Whose Bond He Paid When Kastner Skipped Bail

given under oath. It gives in his own words the details of his relations with Charles w. Kastner, prominent in the l. w. w. strike at Ajo, a German alien enemy for whom he served as bondsman and whom he afterward appointed as a guard at the prison, finally paying the bond after Kastner had violated his parole. It presents | in detail Hunts admissions as to how Ile supported Upton Sinclair, the socialist writer. at state expense and the disloyal utterances by Sinclair which Hunt placed in the educational 1 institutions of the state. It shows finally how Hunt is the man behind Fred COlter, whom he says is the only real representative of progress sive democracy.
 Hunts story as given under cross texamination and under oath on the witness stand at Phoenix in the libel proceedings which he brought against ! Col. Fred. s. Breen of the Cococino Sun, who charged him with saying, ITO hell with the war" will be pub lished serially by The Review that the readers of this paper mayJ form
 
 of the man who is occupying the gov ernOr's chair in Arizona.
 Here is the vital part of Hunts yer batim testimony telling of his asso- citation with the alien enemy whom he put on the wall at the prison, given under cross-examination by Judge John H. Campbell of Tucson:
 c. Governor. you say that you have always been behind the president in this war? A. Absolutely.
 Q. Do you know one c. w. Kastner? A. I do.
 Q. Where did you first know him? A. I knew him back several years.
 c. Where did you first meet him? A. When over to the town of Ajo
 c. Did you know him when he was in jail in Pima county? A. Yes, sir.
 c. He was a member of an organi zatiOn known as the I. w. w. A Not that I know of at all.
 Q. Don't you know that he was? A. do not know. AS you know, he be- longed to the Structural Iron Workers union. I know that, and you know it. too.
 o. How do you know it? A. Be- cause I got word from the secretary at Miami.
 o. From the secretary at Miami? A. Yes, sir. And I will tell you the reason why I know it; because the president of the union and l went on his bond, if you want to know that.
 e. What was the occasion of your going on his bond? A. Because he was in jail.
 Q. What for? A. We'll, you better ask the United States government what for
 Q. Don't you know? A. l don't.
 Q. Didn't the bond you went on re- cite what he was in jail for? A. No.
 Q. It didn't? A. No.
 c. You mean to say it did notR A. | have the correspondence up there with Flynn, and MT. Flynn told me he thought the man was innocent.
 Q. MT. Flynn told you that? A. Yes, he told me that, and I have the correspondence.
 c. When did Mir. Flynn tell you that? A. Oh. I don't know exactly when. If he hadn't thought he was all right he would not have wanted ulAu iO Sp oul Ou Deiii- DO sOu bhiuh he would?
 Q. I don't know A. You don't; you have been in the government service and you ought to know it.
 Q. Don't you think he was entitled to bail? A. The government thought he was entitled to bail and gave him bail.
 Jumped His Bail.
 c. Then what did he do? He skipped the bail
 e. You paid the bond? A. Yes. sir, paid my bond, myself and the union up there.
 c. And the union. A. Yes.
 c. You knew him, l understand. when he was arrested over at Ajo as an l. w. W? A No, I didn't see him after l went his bail.
 Q. You knew him when he was in jail in Tucson? A. l didn't know 1t was him until saw him afterwards.
 Q. You did not? A. didn't know he was in jail until he told me about it
 Q. You did know he was in jail? A. l did not know it until he was out of jail.
 Dangerous Alien Enemy.
 Q. The bond you went on recited this. did it not, governor, that he was arrested as being an alien enemy of the United States. and the condition was that said Kastner shall carefully observe the laws of the United States and all such regulations as might be prescribed for the conduct for the alien enemies and strictly abstain from doing any act of hostility or in- jury to the United States and its people, and shall keep in close touch with his supervisor and report in person to him. a designated officer. as often as required. and remain with in the parole limits of Maricopa coun- ty. You know that didn't you when you signed it? A. l guess so; yes.
 c. Where did he go when you ob- tained his release? A. Well. l think he told me he got instructions from Mir Flynn to go some other place where he could get work in his trade. He could not get any work in Mari copa county.
 Q. Did you not take him to Flor