The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-06-15
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RENA MOONEY TRIAL
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on the jury.
Edward Cunha, who had not shown
his face in the court since he had
broken down and admitted that "the
Rigall-OXman affair did not worry
him as much as the jury situation
in the (Tom) Mooney case, which sit
uation was the thing that troubled
his conscience" rushed back into
court to aid in getting if possible a
jury of sycophants of the Chamber
of Commerce.
The jury is now about completed
and the taking of evidence will he
in full swing by the time this
reaches the reader.
What Evidence?
Every witness who has up to this
time sought to implicate Rena
Mooney in the bomb cases, the same
who caused the condemnation of Tom
Mooney and Warren Billings, has
been discredited. The Edeau women
have confessed that they told two
different stories, and the Chief of
Police of Oakland, as well as In
spector of Police Smith and three
fellow-employees of Mrs. Edeau, have
proven that the two women perjured
themselves against both Billings and
Tom Mooney. Whether the brazen
prosecutors will dare to put them on
the stand again or whether they
will hire other witnesses to take
their places, is not known.
John Mcdonald, alias McDaniels,
the drug victim, has been discreditec.
and proven perjurer by the alibi
photographs which show Tom Mooney
on the roof of his home at the time
he was supposed to be placing the
bomb over a mile distant. He has,
more than that, been caught chang
ing his testimony, and admitted I'M
der oath that he had told a false
story in the first trial. His change
Of testimony was made to get around
the photographs and sustain Oman,
the now famous cattleman from Ore
gon, who is under felony charge for
a perjury conspiracy against
Mooney.
The prosecution announces without
shame that it intends to put Oman
on the stand against Rena Mooney,
while OXman is awaiting trial for
attempting to buy perjury against
her husbandl
Oman appealed his case on writ
Of habeas corpus proceedings to the
Supreme Court of California. He lost
his case and will have to face trial.
Prosecutor Fickert, his co-conspira-
tor, will try to let him win his ac-
quittal.
Chief Justice Angellotti of the
Supreme Court, said: 81 have
read the record of the Oxman
case and it seemed to me that
RigalPs testimony was over
whelmingly sufficient to estab-
fish the crime charged against
Oman, as far as the magis-
trate's authority to hold him to
answer was concerned. The tes-
timOny was explicit and in de-
tail as to all the essential facts.
n
Judge Franklin Griffin trial judge
in Tom MONEYS case) said:
"The authorship and anthem
ITCHY of the OXman letters are
undenied and undisputed. Had
they been before me at the time
of the hearing of the motion for
new trial, | would unhesitat-
ingly have granted it."
Nolan Out on Bond
Police Captain Matheson, head of
the Bomb Squad" said:
81 went to District Attorney
Charles Fickert and warned him that
if anything crooked was being hatch
ed up, | would not be connected with
it but would do my best to expose it.
Mr.. Fickert listened to what l said,
but made no reply"
*
"OXman should not be permitted
to become a witness against any
other of the accused bomb plotters,
until he shall have cleared himself
Of these charges. 1t would be little
short of criminal to put him on the
witness stand otherwise. If he is
called as a witness in any of the
other cases, with this cloud resting
upon him, there can be nothing but
an acquittal.
On this showing Edward D. Nolan
was released on bond, Captain Mathe-
son testifying that there never had
been any evidence to justify holding
him the nine long months that he
has been in prison under murder