Fred Huntoon Before Grand Jury

ASKED TO TELL WHAT HE KNOWS OF POSTAL FRAUDS

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In the Philippines - If Huntoon was in Position to see any Irregularities he will Know How to Tell It.

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Fred Huntoon, who went to the wars from this city and who is now in Jackson, has been called before a grand jury to tell what he knows of postal frauds in the Philippines. The Jackson Press says:

"Thursday Deputy United States Marshal Hayden served a subpoena upon Fred Huntoon, agent of the United States Express company in Jackson, to appear before the grand jury summoned by the United States federal court for the southern district of Ohio, at Columbus, O., on June 3. The inquiry relates to the investigation into the postoffice department.

"Mr. Huntoon has been connected with the United States postal service in Cuba and the Philippines. He went to Cuba with the Thirty-first Michigan, enlisting from Ann Arbor, and after his term of enlistment expired, went back to the island, where he served in the postoffice department under the notorious Neely, who was convicted of misconduct in office. Mr. Huntoon afterwards enlisted with the Forty-second United States volunteer infantry and served in the Philippines. He took his soldiering experience for the purpose o seeing the world, and he certainly saw a good section of it.

"Concerning his testimony at Columbus, he said he had nothing to say, except that he knew of nothing discreditable to the the postal service.

"He thought he could make a conjecture as to what was expected to be proved by his evidence, but as he was still under obligations imposed by the service, he preferred to be silent. Last March he received a confidential communication from a United States postoffice inspector, which seems to have caused him to expect the subpoena. Mr. Huntoon will leave for Columbus June 2."