Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-26
RENA MOONEY ON
TRIAL IN FRISCO
THIRD BOMB CASE OPENED
LAST MONDAY.
Execution of Tom Mooney Indefinitely
Postponed, Awaiting Action of
State Supreme Court on Appeal
of Defendant for New Trial.
Especial Correspondence.)

Especial Correspondence.)
SAN FRANCISCO, May 23.-The
defense forces have received many
queries about Moneys death SEN
tence. The shortest and most COM
plete answer is, that it is indefinitely
postponed. The failure of the supreme
court to act on the appeal automatic
ally postpones the hanging, which was
originally set for May II. The appeal
will probably not be decided for sew
erai months, unless Attorney General
Webb makes motion for a new trial,
as Judge Griffin requested him. If
the supreme court affirms the convic-
tion, Judge Griffin will be obliged to
set new date for the hanging.
If he refused to do this (and, judg-
ing from his honest and fearless stand
ing in the past, that is a probability
he would lose further jurisdiction in
the case and Mooney would go to trial
on one of the other indictments.
Oxman Still in Tolls.
Despite the frantic search of the dis
cality, which might free Frank C. Ok
man, the "honest cattleman," is still
IN the tolls of the criminal law. The
district court of appeals quashed the
first writ of habeas corpus on Monday
last. The second writ has not been
ruled on, but it seems foregone con-
cluslon that this writ will be quashed
too.
The trial of Mrs. Rena Mooney, one
of the preparedness parade bomb plot
defendants, opened Monday and most
OF this week is expected to be con-
sumed in obtaining a jury. She is
music teacher and wife of Tom Mooney
who was tried and given a death SEN
tence.
New Judge on Bench.
Judge Emmet Seawell of Santa Rosa
took the bench at the opening of court
Monday morning, presiding in the
place of Judge Frank H. Dunno, who
withdrew because of charges of preiu-
dice brought by attorneys for the de-
tense. Dunno presided in the two pre-
ceding bomb case trials.
The defense asked talesmen if they
would be influenced if a possible wit
ness against the defendant appeared
in court under cloud" Reference
was to Frank C. Oxman, the principal
witness against the defendants hus-
band, Thomas j. Mooney. Oxman is
now awaiting trial on a charge of at
tempted subornation of perjury.
Husband and Wife Meet.
Mrs. Mooney, wearing a black hat,
with white plumes, and smartly
gowned, met her husband, Thomas ].
Mooney, under death sentence, as she
entered court. They shook hands and
he whispered to her. Mooney was
pale and seemed to show the effects of
confinement. Five counsel were an
nounced for Mrs. Mooney.
Mrs. Mooney is being tried specific
ally for the murder of Mrs. Irene NJ.
Van Loo, who lost her life in the bomb
explosion.
Want Light on Case.
The San Francisco Labor Council
has called on the state attorney to pro-
mote the ends of justice in the Mooney
case because of recent exposures con-
nected with the trial that resulted in a
death sentence to the defendant.
"In addition to charges of perjury
and subornation of perjury of witness
es," it is stated, at is also charged
and strongly intimated that men
higher up whose identity has not thus
far been revealed, have aided the pros
ecution in securing false conviction by
the corrupt offer and use of money.
Such condition in the administration of
law and justice is subversive of all law
and legal authority, and in aforesaid
case constitutes public calamity and
a grave menace to popular and free
institutions"
The unionists petition state authori-
ties to Investigate this case and