The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-02-24
HEARING POSTPONED !
BY THE GOVERNMENT
United States Attorney Oakley
Asks Time to Get His Wit
nesses Together.
ATTEMPT TO PROVE THAT
MOONEY IS RIGHT MAN
Duluthian Claims to Have Been
Working on Local Building
at Time of Plots.

States was to have shown that Fred
j. Mooney, arrested last week in con-
nection with the indianapolis dyna-
mltlng cases, was the man wanted,
was continued Tuesday by Commis-
sioner Pressnell upon motion by
Assistant United States Attorney Oak
ley.
With his attorney, e. j. Kenny,
Mr.. Mooney was on hand, but it was
claimed by the United tSates attorney
that the government was unable 10
get their witnesses together at the time
set for the hearing and upon his
motion Commissioner Pressnell con-
tinued it for one week. The next
hearing will take place at the local
federal building on next Tuesday
morning at 10 o'clock. At that time
the government will attempt to prove
that Mooney is the man named in the
indictment. If this proves to be true,
Mooney will be forced to go to In
dianapolis for trial
Charged With Conspiracy.
The local man is charged with con-
piracy. 1t is claimed in the indict-
ment that he helped to carry 45
pounds Of dynamite from one point
in Ohio to the city Of Indianapolis.
1t is MONEYS contention that the
government has the wrong man, for
he states, and his statement is borne
out by the books Of the Barnett and
Record company that he was on the
payroll Of the company at the time
he was supposed to be carrying dyna-
mite from one point in Ohio to an
other in Indiana.
Officer Youngberg of the local
police department, states that he
worked with Mooney at the time and
is willing to testify to that effect
According to both men they were
employed at that time on the Peavy
elevator. Both were structural iron
workers and belonged to the union.
Mr.. Mooney was secretary of this
organization at the time.
At the present time the local man
is out of Jail on bonds Of IS, 900
furnished by his friends
Let No Guilty Man Escape.
The Labor World has contended
from the first that every guilty man
higher up in the dynamite plots or
lower down, should be arrested and
convicted. Not only that but they
should, be made to suffer for their
crimes against property and the lives
of others.
The editor of the Labor World has
known Mr.. Mooney for some years
past and he is satisfied that the young
man is not talking one way and act
ing another.
10 hos a
honest Woodworking young man. He
has been steadily employed and lives
in his own home in the West End
with the members of his family.
MIR. Mooney was employed on the
new st. Louis county courthouse
and was badly injured while help
ing in the construction of that build
ing. A defective derreck gave way
and Mooney was so horribly crushed
that he was in bed for several months
Don't Persecute the Innocent.
1t seems rather that those instr
mental in making the arrests all over
the country have selected at random
the officers Of the different unions
in the city, believing that they could
furnish information as to who was
concerned in the dynamiting plots
MI. Mooney is far from the sort
OF man who would engage in das-
tardly deeds of this kind, if we know
him, and We think we do.
Ehe plots which the Duluth man
is accused of being implicated in.
were in Dec. 1906. 1t can be shown.
and probably will come out at the
:, hearing, that Mr.. Money was employ
ed by a Duluth concern and on a
Duluth building in that month of that
year.
The result of the Tuesday hearing
will be watched with interest