Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-19
District Attorney Says Accused
Woman Is Guilty Of Murder
of Ten People and Injuring
Fifty Others.
ANARCHY ON TRIAL,
DECLARES LAWYER
AIibi Testimony Is Attacked
and 1t Is Shown That All
Could Be True Without Dis
proving Charges,


San Francisco, Calf, July 49,
Characterizing Mrs. Mooney. on trial
for murder of one of the victims of
the preparedness parade bomb ex-
plosion here last July as "a cold
blooded slaughterer OF women and
children" and IAN anarchistic con-
spirator," District Attorney Charles
M. Fickert asked today for her con.
viction and the nflictron of the death
penalty, in his opening address to the
jury.
Waving the bloodstained clothing
of George Lawlor, one of the ten VIC
TINS Of the explosion, before the
jurors, Fickert declared:
EITHER you will destroy anarchy
or the anarchists will destroy the
state"
Not only would the anarchists de-
stroy this nation, but they would teal
down those institutions through which
we have reached our present stand
ards of civilization, the home. the
church and the school," Fickert add
ed.
Alleged Order to Billings.
Fickert declared that Mrs. Mooney
gave orders to warren X. Billings,
now under sentence of life imprison-
ment for one of the bomb murders,
to proceed to the scene of the eXplo-
sion and skill women ard children
.iiSl! oln.mes vas dSiescd to have
placed the bomb which the state con-
tended was in suitcase.
That The efforts of the defendant
to prove an alibi for herself were lies,
conceived by one old and schooled in
crime,' was the declaration of Flick
ert.
"The defendants in these bomb
cases know how to fix and frame an
alibi," he continued.
''This is the most important case
that has ever been tried before an
American court, not excepting the
trial of those who assassnated the inn
mortal Lincoln" continued Fickert.
Murdered Ten People.
''This defendant and her fellow
anarchists, in the time of peace and
tranquility, murdered ten men and
women and MANNED fifty people be-
cause they were bent on destroying
the very government which Lincoln
preserved and defended and for which
he gave his life"
Fickert asked the jury to "cast
al 90 ;o,,
that have been INDUCED in because
the defendant is woman"
at is important that the death PEN
atty of anarchy be issued out of this
court" he said "The defendant is
not only condemned by the testimony
of scores of disinterested Witnesses
but she is damned by the writings of
the conspirators, found in her pos
session."
Fickert said Mrs. MONEYS hand
bag contained mo innocent powder
puff but instead contained bullets"
Books on dynamite instead of
books on childhood and prayer were
found in her apartment, said Fickert.
Refers to Mrs. Surratt.
He declared Mrs. Mooney was the
"Mrs. Surratt' of the bomb conspir-
acy and that she should pay the PEN
atty "fo- the blood she has shed as
Mrs. Surratt was made to pay the
penalty for the murder of Lincoln"
alexander Berkman was att the
head of this anarchistic conspiracy"
said Fickert. He called Berkman the
arch anarchist of the United States.
Tn the course of his argument
Fickert attacked the alibi testimony
offered by Mrs. Mooney, who as a
witness in her own defense recently
described her movements on the day
of the bomb explosion. The prosecu-
tor said that Mrs. Mooney and her
husband, Thomas J. Mooney, under
sentence of death for one of the
bomb murders, could have left their
apartment at 1:25 or 1880 p. M, de-
posted the suitcase at the scene of
the explosion and have returned to
the roof of the building in which they
lived by :5S p. m. The explosion oc-
Cured more than a mile from the
Moneys apartments at 2:06 p. m.
An automobile travelling at the rate Of
fifteen miles an hour could have
ta ken the Moneys from the scene Of
the explosion to their residence in
four minutes, Fickert said.
Quotes Witnesses.
Reputable witnesses saw the
MONEYS and Billings at point on
street about mile from the
scene of the explosion said Fickert.
Billings was carrying suitcase con-
tanning the bomb at this point half an
hour before the explosion occurred
"Other reputable witnesses saw a
suitcase on the sidewalk at the scene
Of the explosion. 1t is folly for the
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