The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-06-22
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ATTORNEYS
NEW PERJURYTO HANG MRS. MOONEY
Chamber of Commerce Attorney
Openly Appears to Aid
in Killing

Charles w. Cobb, a famous and
shrewd attorney for the Chamber of
Commerce, has openly stalked into
the court room and taken his place
behind the district attorney to su-
perintend the conviction of Mrs
Mooney. Three large private de-
tective agencies have been employed
out of the Chamber of Commences
million dollar fund to put their en-
tire forces into the work of con-
viction.
Rena MONEYS prosecutors have
decided not to bring back to. San
Francisco Frank C. Oxman, the per-
Jurer from Oregon, who has fled to
his home away from his impending
trial for perjury subornation. Along
with Mrs. Kidwell, Louis Rominger,
John Crowley, who have also been
proven perjurers, and Nellie Edeau,
Sadie Edeau, Charles Organ and Ru-
fus Patterson, who have confessed to
perjury against Tom Mooney-Ox-
man has been discarded. When
last heard of, Oxman had escaped
from the State and said he was go
ing home nervous wreck.
The discharge of Oxman as wit
ness was necessary to avoid having
the proof of District Attorney Flick
ert's, his assistant Cunha's, Lieuten-
ant Steve Burners and Oxman's per-
jury conspiracy made a part of the
court record in Mrs. Moneys trial.
Oxman's perjury letters are thus
attempted to be excluded from evil
dence.
Although every judge who has
handled the Oxman case says that
the evidence against Oxman is over
whelming, the local officials in charge
are making no effort to bring him
to justice. So, too, Attorney Gen
eral Webb has ignored the request
of Judge Franklin A. Griffin, that
he go before the Supreme Court
and demand a new trial for Tom
Mooney.
Estelle Smith Reappears
In order to save themselves from
their career of perjury-buying in
the Tom Mooney case, the prosecu-
tors have apparently fallen back on
Estelle Smith. Estelle Smith, the
from Los Angeles, had
been shelved in the trial Of Tom
Mooney because her evidence con-
tradicted that of Oxman, as well as
being overthrown by the witnesses
and photographs of Tom MONEYS
alibi.
Those photographs, when finally
the fraud of their fading out had
been discovered, were the original
reason for getting Oxman to perjure
The New "Oxman"
One Samuel Samuels is announced
as the new star witness for the
killing of Rena Mooney. Samuels
is the brother of patrol wagon
driver. He was strike-breaker
and gun-fighter in the waterfront
strike at the time he claims to have
seen Mrs. Mooney, and he is said
to have since been forced to join the
Union.
Samuels is expected to testify that
Mrs. Rena Mooney obtained from
him a quantity of nitre, which has
chemical properties that are used in
making explosives. The story is a
lie of such absurdity that no one
outside the influence of the Frame
Up Ring will credit it. 1t is solely
a question of whether the jury is
under the influence of
Chamber of Commerce terrorism to
accept the story.
That Samuels is to be paid for his
testimony against Mrs. Mooney will
not be disputed. 1t is the accepted
rule in San Francisco for witnesses
to be bribed and coached in their
testimony by the regularly constitut-
ed authorities. The bribes are call
ed rewards" 1t is taken as mat
ter of course for every man or wo-
man who testifies against "the la
Dor agitators" to be handsomely paid
for their testimony. When per-
Jury is proven against a witness, he |
or she is simply let go, and the
makes no further pre-
tense than to "hire a witness that
will tell the truth" That an hon
est man would tell the truth without
being paid for it is never thought OF
in the sordid den of the Chamber of
Commerce prosecutors.
Tom Mooney Elected to Molders'
National Convention
Sitting behind the bars of a sup
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