The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-09

ooh, Fickert told us all about
that" Miller answered. eve paid no
attention to Bourke Cochran or
Judge Griffin. Rena Mooney is a
- worse than Tom and if l
got on her jury I'd give her the same
Dose Cochran came out from New
York to show us something, but we
showed him a few things. We didn't
discuss the verdict at any length.
We wanted to get Mooney out of the
way"
GLOW can you reconcile a life SEN
tence to Billings and death to Moon
ey, both of them being charged with
the same crime ?" dollhouse asked.
sob, Fickert wanted Mooney hung"
Miller replied.
This cold-blooded admission of
Miller's is one of many sensational
discoveries made by the Information
al Workers Defense League since
Moneys conviction.
Another was the statement Mrs.
Edeau, prosecution witness, made to
Thomas Stout of Oakland. Speaking
of Tom Mooney and Warren X. Bill
lings, she said, "What difference does
their conviction make? They're only
workingmen. Besides there are too
many working people in the world"
l told her l thought she would hang
a man for SO cents and she said,
"What difference does it make so
long as you get paid for it,"
Startling New Evidence
The following new witnesses have
come forward and given new evidence
of Moneys innocence:
/. Thomas Stout, TIA Market St.,
Oakland, fellow employee of Mrs.
Edeau, a prosecution witness. Stout
makes affidavit that Mrs. Edeau told
him that she was at the scene of the
explosion and not at 721 Market St.
as she swore at both the Billings and
Mooney trials. Also after Mrs.
Edeau saw the defendants in San
Francisco city Jail she told Stout that
none of the defendants resembled the
men she saw with the alleged bomb.
But later she agreed to say they
were the men because "they are no
good anyway"
2. w. H. Burgess, 900 Seventeenth
Avenue, Oakland, who substantiates
Stout in every particular.
3. Deputy Constable Harry w.
Johnston of Daily City, CAL, who
swears he saw Mexican drop suit
case at the point of the explosion.
Johnston's suspicious were aroused
by the actions of the man and he
watched the man carefully. After
wards he saw the same man on a Sc
attle-bound boat.
a. Herman Boese, real estate
clerk, who testifies that he rode to
the scene of the explosion in jitney
carrying a suitcase on the running
board an hour before Oxman testified
as to seeing Mooney there in a jit-
ney. Boese rested the suitcase he
carried at the point of the explosion
| for some time.
5. Mrs. Charlotte La Posee, shoe
salesman's wife, who saw Frank C.
Oxman, the millionaire prosecution
witness, over mile away from the
scene of the explosion at the same
identical time that he swears he saw
Tom Mooney and his co-defendants
place the bomb. Mrs. La Posee used
to live in Portland, Oregon, and twice
saw Oman there in the role of "cafe
rounder" and Give one."
Organized Labor Backs Up Mooney
The Chicago Federation of Labor,
the San Francisco Labor Council, and
the Bay District Councils of Carpen-
tiers and Painters have been the first
to protest against the death verdict.
Practically every union in San Fran
cisco and Oakland has followed the
lead of the Premier Councils. The
San Francisco Labor Council has also
instructed it's Law and Legislative
Committee to make a thorough ex-
animation of the testimony in the
Billings and Mooney cases and make
an immediate report. The Alameda
Central Councils have appointed COM
mittees to consider the feasibility of
having labor jury to follow the
Weinberg case.
The Chicago Federation of Labor
has called a monster demonstration
of protest for March 18th, and it is
expected that Hon. w. Bourke Cock
ran, chief defense counsel, of New
York, will be the principal speaker.
The Chicago Labor News has de-