Sacramento, Jan. 8.
The dramatic release of Mr.
Thomas Mooney here yesterday was climaxed today when the Governor, Mr. Culbert Olson, who granted Mr. Mconey's pardon, collapsed from emotion and excitement a few hours later while addressing a huge throng of 130000 supporters, including friends of Mr. Mooney, who had been invited to participate in the Governors inaugural picnic and berbeque.
The Governor was rushed to a hospital after collapsing in the middle of his speech. Physicians said his condition was not serious, but that he had been exhausted by the ordeal of granting Mr. Mooney's pardon in the State Assembly Chamber and the later excitement za the picnic.
Mr, Olson's voice suddenly wavered while he was addressing the crowd at the picnic and friends close by rushed up and caught him as he began to collapse to the floor. His son, Richard, stepped to the microphone and explained the situation to the crowd.
Meanwhile, Mr. Mooney, who was pardoned and declared innocent by the Governor after serving 22 years of a life sentence for the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing, ited Warren Billings at Folsom Prison. Billings also is under life imprisonment sentence, but was not pardoned by the Governor yesterday because he is a two-time offender. His pardon must come from the State Supreme Court. He was convicted with Mr. Mooney for alleged participation in the San Francisco bombing which took ten lives and seriously wounded forty others,—United Press,
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