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BarbarousMexico JOHN KENNETH TURNER

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AMERICAN PERSECUTION OF ENEMIES OF DIAZ 287<br />

Mr. Lawler—That is objected to as a conclusion of the witness.<br />

Q.—By Mr. Harriman: Did you have a warrant?<br />

A.—No, sir.<br />

The Commissioner—The other question is withdrawn and now<br />

you ask him if he had a warrant?<br />

Mr. Harriman—Yes, sir.<br />

Q.—Arrested them without a warrant?<br />

A.—Yes, sir.<br />

Q.—You took this property away from them without a warrant?<br />

A.—Yes, sir.<br />

Q.—Went through the house and searched it without a<br />

warrant?<br />

A.—How is that?<br />

Q.—Went through the house and searched it without a warrant?<br />

A.—Yes.<br />

Q.—And took the papers from them?<br />

A.—I didn't take any papers from them. I took them and<br />

locked them up and then went back and got the papers.<br />

Q.—Took them from their house and kept them, did you?<br />

A.—No, sir. I turned them over-<br />

Q.—Well, you kept them, so far as they are concerned?<br />

A.—Yes, sir.<br />

Q.—Who paid you for doing this work?<br />

A.—The Mexican government.<br />

Nor was Furlong backward about confessing the purpose<br />

of the hunt. By a Los Angeles newspaper<br />

Furlong, in bragging about the arrest, was quoted as<br />

asserting that he had been "after" Magon and his friends<br />

for three years. During that period, he said, he had<br />

succeeded in "getting" 180 Mexican revolutionists and<br />

turning them over to the Diaz government, which "had<br />

made short work of them." According to an affidavit<br />

properly sworn to by W. F. Zwickey and on record in<br />

the Los Angeles courts, Furlong stated that he was<br />

It so much interested in this case and the charges for<br />

which the defendants are being tried as in getting them

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