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The only odd thing was that he had made two applications for citizenship in the course of his long residence in the United States and in each case dropped them, or didn't appear before the limit for appearance came up. His explanation of that was that he went to sea. Bridges had alternated between going to sea and working along shore for a good many years, or working, at anything that he could get to do. He had gone to sea frequently. The investigation of the San Francisco police, which they made through the Australian police, showed that ho had run away from home to go to sea when he was sixteen year old, or so, and that he had been going to sea off and on ever since. He had gone around the world that way. That's how he had gotten to the USA and to Mexico, As I've said, he came in to the United States from Mexico legally at some time way back, since which time he had gone to sea and come back many times. So it had been established that he had made two applications for citizenship, neither one of which had he ever completed.

I did not believe that he was any Red. There was on the West Coast at that time, and had been for some time, an extremely excited kind of a vigilante group. Remember, the West Coast had been very much frightened by the IWW movement. They had also been very much