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Rh Mr. Lawler—That is objected to as a conclusion of the witness. Q.—By Mr. Harriman: Did you have a warrant? A.—No, sir. The Commissioner—The other question is withdrawn and now you ask him if he had a warrant? Mr. Harriman—Yes, sir. Q.—Arrested them without a warrant? A.—Yes, sir. Q.—You took this property away from them without a warrant? A.—Yes, sir. Q.—Went through the house and searched it without a warrant? A.—How is that? Q.—Went through the house and searched it without a warrant? A.—Yes. Q.—And took the papers from them? A.—I didn't take any papers from them. I took them and locked them up and then went back and got the papers. Q.—Took them from their house and kept them, did you? A.—No, sir. I turned them over —— Q.—Well, you kept them, so far as they are concerned? A.—Yes, sir. Q.—Who paid you for doing this work? A.—The Mexican government.

Nor was Furlong backward about confessing the purpose of the hunt. By a Los Angeles newspaper Furlong, in bragging about the arrest, was quoted as asserting that he had been "after" Magon and his friends for three years. During that period, he said, he had succeeded in "getting" 180 Mexican revolutionists and turning them over to the Diaz government, which "had made short work of them." According to an affidavit properly sworn to by W. F. Zwickey and on record in the Los Angeles courts, Furlong stated that he was "not so much interested in this case and the charges for which the defendants are being tried as in getting them