Arizona republican., 1917-11-28
WEINBERG |S FOUND NOT GUILTY IF PART
 IN BOMB OUTRAGE
Republican A. p. Leased Wlrel


 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27.-Israel Weinberg, jitney bus Criver, was ac- quilted today by a jury of murder charge which grew out of the pre- paredness. parade bomb explosion which killed ten persons here last year. The trial began October g. The Jury was out twenty-two minutes.
 Counsel for Weinberg immediately moved to dismoss the remaining indict- ments, charging their client with mur- der The motion was taken under ad- visement by the court.
 Assistant District Attorney Louis Ferrari who conducted the proseeu- ton, made this statement:
 This is a truly great day for the anarchists I did the best 1 could
 Thomas M. OConnor, who made the closing argument for the defense, said:
 Tt is exactly what We expected. There could have been no ccSer verdict in the face of the evidence offered by the defense"
 One of the jurors said after the verdict had been given:
 There was nothing in the evidence offered by the prosecution that would tend at any time to fix Weinberg's guilt in the explosion. Weinberg, on the face of the evidence offered by tie prosecution. should never have been arrested in the first place"
 Mrs. Weinberg, who has been con stantly at the side of the defendant in the court room since trial started, left the room immediately arm in arm with her husband They were sur rounded by a group of friends who showered congratulations upon them.
 q am too happy to make any state ment.' said Israel Weinberg, as the verdict was read. Tears shone in his eyes, and his face was narrowed by the strain under which he had been placed.
 The state contended Weinberg, in his automobile, had taken several of the bomb case defendants 70 the vicinity where the blast occurred. The defense maintained Weinberg was in another part of the;eitE at the time.
 Isreal Weinberg, fourth of the bomb murder defendants to face a jury, was brought to trial October g, before Su- perior Judge Emmet Seawell of Santa Rosa, Cal, who was asked to preside by Superior Judge Frank H. Dunne, in whose court the case has been called. Motion by Weinbergs counsel for a | change of venue, alleging bias and prejudice on the part of Judge Dunne, was denied by~him. Subsequent illness resulted in the substitution of Judge Seawell.
 The state produced witnesses in- | tended to prove that Weinberg drove three of the six defendants to the scene of the explosion in his jitney bus, where a tan suit case, alleged by the state to have contained the bomb was placed on the sidewalk on the | spot where the blast occurred. Alibi witnesses were placed on ttb stand by the defense, whose main. contention was that Weinberg was driving his machine in another section of the city l when the explosion took place. A feature in the course of the selec- l tiOn of a jury, which took two weeks l was a ruling by. the court disbarring | from jury service members of any or | gani2ation which contributed directly or indirectly to any fund used by the l defense or prosecution. The court spe- 1 officially named the San Francisco | Chamber of Commerce and various la | bor unions. The Chamber of Con- merce had appointed a special prose- cutor in previous cases, while many la l bor unions had contributed money fol | the defense fund.
 Warren K Billings, Thomas J Mooney and Mrs. Rena Mooney, wife of Mooney, were the first defendants tried in .he- order named. Billings and Mooney were convicted and sen. fenced to life imprisonment and deatt respectively. Appeals in both cases were taken to the state. supreme court
 Mrs. Rena Mooney was acquitted o1 one of nine indictments for murder Her motion thereafter for liberty or bail was denied by one of the three superior judges in whose courts tn, | indictments were pending.
 Shortly before the trial of Mrs
 Mooney, a charge of attempted sub. ornation of perjury was brough against Frank c. OXman, a Durkee