The Alaska citizen., 1917-02-26
NEW TRIAL IS DENIED CONVICT ED CONSPIRATOR IN OYNAMIT- ING INCIDENT, AND HE IS SEN FENCED TO BE HANGED ON MAY 17.
MURDER IN FIRST
 DEGREE. CHARGED
JUDGE WHO DENIED NEW TRIAL AND PASSED SENTENCE TELLS FAIR TRIAL AND THAT HE BE- LIEVES HIM GUILTY.
Associated PTesS)

Griffin, who presided at the trial of the case. today denied the motion of the defendants attorney for a new trial and immediately afterward passed the death sentence on Thos J. Mooney, convicted of participation in the bomb throwing here on pre- paredness day last July, when sev- eral people met death. Mooney is to be hanged by the neck until he is dead on Thursday, May T., ac- cording to the sentence as passed In passing sentence Judge Griffin asserted that the defendant had had a fair trial and that he believed Mooney to be guilty.
 HISTORY OF CASE.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 24.-Thos. J. Mooney, together with Israel Vein berg, Edward Nolan. Mrs. Rena Mooney and Warren K. Billings, was d plosion of the bomb at Stewart and Market streets shortly after ? o'clock, July p, 1916.
 Billings was the first to be brought to trial after he and the others had been indicted for murder by the inv la guilty and sentenced to life impris onment. His attorneys immediately filed an appeal, alleging that he was not accorded a fair and impartial trial and that the evidence presented by the prosecution was not conclu sive of guilt.
 Information as to Billings activity in the bomb explosion was furnished by Detective Martin Swanson, em- ployed by the Pacific Gas and Flee tric company, who had been on Bill lings' trail in connection with the destruction Of power wires of the United Railroads of San Francisco
 The Mooneys, for whom the po lice had secured the state from the moment of the explosion, telephoned their whereabouts to the police from a summer resort at Guerneville, Cal They were arrested immediately, and both denied any complicity in the explosion.
 All of the defendants told conflict ing stories, the police said, as to their movements on the day of the parade, and those stories formed the chief corroborating evidence to the circumstantial evidence gathered by the authorities.
 Mooney was brought to trial Janu- ary 3 in the superior court Among the many sensations was the charge made by Assistant District Attor- ney Edward A. Cunha that Mooney, Alexander Berkman, editor of the an archist San Francisco publication The Blast" and others were the ringleaders in an alleged conspiracy to overthrow government, assassi- nate executive heads in California and other states, and that the con spirators indirectly threatened the life of President Wilson. CEnha based his charges on evidence con seized in police raid on the offices of The Blast" early in January.
 Mooney's defense, through his chief counsel, Attorney w. Bourke Cochran of New York, made counter charges that the district attorneys office had sought to prejudice the public mind against Mooney by giv- ing out for publication edited" let ters seized in "The Blast" raid.
 Mooney has been known as a la, bor agitator here for the last four years He was arrested in Martinez, Cal, on a charge of having dynamite in his possession. He was released arrested here for circulating docu, ments urging a strike on the lines of the United Railroads. Shortly be. fore the explosion he and his wife the police charged, attempted to force a strike, which failed.