The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-07-06

ber of Commerce, is being unloaded
in quantities to suit the purchaser
in the Rena Mooney trial now in
progress:
II identified Mrs. Mooney without
seeing her. Also the others; Mann
ma told me about them."- Sadie
Edeau.
II didn't recognize my own broth
er."-Sam Samuels, the New COX
man."
Judge, please make Tom Moneys
mother quit looking at e."-Es-
telle Smith.
The cold-blooded brutality of the
horde of hired witnesses now fran
tically trying to win portions of the
$4,000 reward by hanging the little
music teacher, Mrs. Rena Mooney,
has been exposed in startling light.
The most shameless thing of it is
that the newspapers-with two ex-
ceptions-are trying to smother the
murder of Rena Mooney by suppress
ing the news. William R. Hearst's
paper, "The Examiner" leads in the
dark design. "The Examiner" pub
fishes every morning full stenog-
raphic report of the "direct" exam
ination of each of the States lead
ing witnesses-that is, the old cut
and dried framed-up stories that
are no longer news. The most
startling evidence brought out by the
cross-examination is almost always
left out.
Sadie Edeau was put on the
stand instead Of her mother. This
is obviously for the reason that the
older woman was the most thorough
ly trapped of the two by Chief Pet
erson and Inspector Smith of the
Oakland Police Department. Old
Mrs. Edeau had been caught and
branded as a perjurer. Sadie, the
daughter, had been also caught and
branded, but the evidence mostly ap-
piled to her mother, and the sinister
craft of Charles w. Coff, the Cham
ber Of Commerce attorney hired to
sit at the elbow of Fickert to steer
the case, conceived the plan to drag
Sadie in to give her mothers testi-
mony for her and thus escape the
proof of the fraud.
When Sadie blithely swore that
she identified the defendants With
out Seeing Them, and defended her.
self by saying that "Mother told
me about them," the prosecutors
turned pale. They Immediately made
stage play to cover it up by loudly
calling for "Mrs. Edeau" as though
they intended to put her on the
stand. But Mrs. Edeau did not
appear. A detective had hastened
out to see to it that she didn't come.
The defense is strenuously trying to
shame them into calling Mrs. Edeau
to the stand.
The great star witness, Sam Sam
uels, the strike-breaking stevedore,
had instructions not to admit that
his testimony had been arranged for
by his brother, patrol wagon driv-
er. Samuels stuck to his story too
we'll. He persistently lied in deny
ing that he had talked to his broth
er in the presence of an assistant dis
trict attorney. At that moment
Assistant District Attorney Ferrari
was seated before him. Seeing that
the facts were going to come out,
Ferrari attempted to save his own
skin by contradicting his witness
and admitting that he himself had
visited Samuels week before in the
company of Samuels' brother.
Samuels' excuse was that he did
not recognize Ferrari, who had Wis
tied him week before, but that
he recognized Mrs. Mooney, total
stranger, from seeing her year
ago. There is money in recogniz-
ing Mrs. Mooney.
''Did you recognize your own
brother when he called on you a
week ago?" demanded Attorney Nc
Kenzie.
"No," said Samuels, II didn't rec
ognize anybody"
Estelle Smith Cannot Look at the
Mother of Her Victim.
Before she gave a word of testi-
mony, Estelle Smith, the prostitute
from Los Angeles, began her stage
plays to impress the jury. The
plump and prosperous woman, who
gives her occupation as "janitress"
out of job, switched into the court
room in gorgeous gown and lux
urious picture hat. She took the
stand, rolled her eyes at the jury and