The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-19
MOONEY PLOT
EXPOSED BY
WITNESSES
Star Witness for Prosecution
Jailed-Trial Develops
Sensation

ilSNAlNN NllNiuSy FNhSIl, TNNaIN
Cunha, assistant district attorney
Steve Bunner, detective and other
members of the police department
conspired to hang Tom Mooney and
four others according to sensational
charges just made in San Francisco.
f. +. Regal, District Attorney
Fickert'S guest at the Olympic Club,
and carefree companion of Fickert,
Edward Cunha and Steve Bunner on
several pleasant night expeditions,
was brought to San Francisco to hang
Thomas J. Mooney by perjured testi-
mony
F. c. Oman, the Oregon cattle
man, on whose testimony Mooney was
sentenced to die May II, is sought
for the crime of bringing Regal to
this city from GRANVILLE, Ill.,, when
he needed an expert witness to cor
roborate his testimony"
Regal has made a complete con-
fession, exposing the plot to send
Mooney to the gallows. He has given
to the defense in the bomb cases, let
tiers and kilograms exchanged be-
tween him and Cunha and Oman.
Seek Oxman's Arrest
These facts, substantiated by the
railroad tickets which brought Regal
to San Francisco, by the register of
the Terminal Hotel and by other doc
umentary and corroborative evidence,
were disclosed by a move of Attorn-
eys Maxwell McNutt and Thomas
O'Conner for Oxman's arrest. Nc.
Mutt was associate counsel in the
Mooney defense. O'Connor is attorn
ey for Israel Weinberg, the next de-
PENDANT in the preparedness parade
bomb trials.
'You will only have to answer three
or four questions, and l will post you
on them" Oxman wrote to Regal.
Regal came, was rehearsed in his
testimony, was feted by Fickert, Gun
ha and Bunner and promised one
third OF a three-way split of the
award. On the day before that on
which he was to testify he returned
to GRANVILLE
Il can't perjure myself to put
moose around a mans neck" he
said.
Oxman Gave Testimony
OXman had no such scruples. He
testified to having seen Mooney,
Weinberg, Billings and Mrs. Mooney
with suitcase in Weinberg's auto
mobile at the time and place of the
bomb explosion.
Edward Cunha is the Assistant Dis.
trlct Attorney who is credited with
the success of the Mooney prosecu-
ton. Steve Bunner is the head of the
bomb bureau" established the dav
Of the explosion. Regal, in his story
to Attorney Edwin V. Mckenzie, as
sociate of O'Connor in the Weinberg
case, links the three men inextric-
ably with Oman in a cold-blooded
conspiracy to hang Mooney.
Oakland Woman Confesses
Sensational events. following the
amazing revelation of criminal con-
splracy in the Oxman perjury plot,
gave cumulative effect today to yes
terday's exposure.
Mrs. Nellie Edau, star witness
against Mooney, admitted having
failed to identify the defendants. and
OF having said she was at Stewart
and Market streets, instead of 721
Market, at the time of the explosion
District Attorney Fickert had Or
dered William H. Smith, Oakland
police inspector, to whom Mrs. Smith
had told this story to withhold the
testimony and keep his mouth shut"
according to Smith.
Duncan Matheson, captain of de-
tectlves and head of the bomb bureau.
brands the plot as a "nasty mess"
and says he will do his utmost to
complete the exposure.
After the prosecutors had learned.
according to their own admission.
that Regal was 'the bunk" thew
entertained him lavishly, and II DAYS
after Assistant District Attorney Ed
ward Cunha says Regal had con-
fessed to him that he had not been
IN San Francisco on the day of the
exposure, the prosecution said he
would be produced to refute the af-
fidavit Of Mrs. Charlotte LIE Posse.
Following the most extraordinary
juggling in murder trial perhaps
ever revealed in America, now comes
revelations that the testimony of
Mrs. Nellie Edau is as equally IN
worthy Of credence as that of the
cattleman Oman.
Next to Oman, Mrs. Edau was the
most important witness in the Moon
ey trial, in which Oman did not an
pear, she was the most important wit.
ness.