Los Angeles, July 8
Following the course of action laid. down by. the California State Supreme Court andthe state pardon board, Governor C. C, Young to-day refused to pardon or to. parole Warren Billings or Thomas Mooney, under sentence of life imprisonment for alleged complicity in the Pre-poredness Day bombings in Saw Francisco in 1916.
While the. Governor's decision was a disappointment to supporters of the "Release Mooney" move-ut, it was not a surprise, as he was expected to take such a course in view of his personal convictions in the ease and the strong antiradical sentiment throughout Californ the Massachusetts Sacco-Vanzetti_ case, the Mooney-Rillings case has long attracted widespread interest outside California where it has been felt that the labour men were "rail-ronded" ta prison on a wave of wartime hysteria, All living members of the Mooney: Jury, the presiding judge and the prosecuting official have joined in asking that a new trial be granted in view of evidence disclosed since the original trial, The supreme on July 5, however, ruled that trial had been had.—United Baltimore, Md, July 12. ational development in the famous "Mooney Case" was revealed to-day when it was announced that John MeDonald, a star witness in the prosecution of Tom Mooney for alleged complicity in the Prepared ness Day bombing in San Frangiseo; hax declared he perjured himself in the trial, that he desires to a, despite threats of prosecution against himself. He declared that he intends to a wrong and take my medicine."
Mooney is servings a life term in, prison and was recently refused pardon or parole by the State governor.—United Press,
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