Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-12-03

,rr 4 r.I,ar"dn"sS Dav" Istrad" there
July %. 1916. Four Others were In
ll,r,a with hIu on ten counts Of mur.
Ir,. il., his cas" Was singled out as ar
i.,i. hy labor ORGANIZATIONS Oi S"rcra
,ul.r'ri.S. Strikes were urged in var
nr., rart~ OF ia" country, and Others
w,i,. ur",d IN other countries as Ia
boris protests. Moneys appeal tt
wartime workers not to strike stopped
agitation for general strike MAY |
1915.
President Wilson intervcn"d by ask
in. Governor Stephens 10 obtain a
n-w trial Tor Mooney. He ordered al
Investigation 10y commission which
recommended +, Il rchcaring.
Four oi tn" live persons indicted
x,.r,. tried for murder. Mooney was
sentenced 70 bc hanged May i, 1871
Warren X. Billings. u shoe clerk no"
- serving his sentence Oi Ill" I'M
urisonmcnt. Mrs. R"na Herman Moon
cv. MONEYS wife, and Israel Vein
L-rg. AN autUiuuhil" bus driver were
acquitted on one ChiIrsc and now are
., liberty ON hail on other charges oi
murder, while Edward ID. Nolan Il ma
rhinist still is waiting trial.
Arrest Follows Explosion.
Mnon,y's alleged activity in san
Francisco street car strike. character
iI,,I 10y violence. and his alleged IN
dustrial Workers of tn" World ANN
,tIons drew suspicion toward him ana
his wlfc They were arrested five days
after the. explosion, 1T GucrncNillc, Cai
They said they had read in ncwspap pcrs
that they were wanted and they had
trl,"raphrd the police they would sur
r.rd,r themselves. -Four OF III" ten
counts OF murder against Mrs. Moon
,y Hillings. Weinberg and Nolan were
dismissed the state admitted lhaph-
itv to proceed an them.
Moneys trial opened January
1917. and ended with his conviction
February 10.
Frank G. OXman. u cattlCman o'
DurI,rr. ore. the states chief Witness
testified in the Mooney trial that h'
saw the Moneys. Billings ana N'h'
hcry drove TO the spot where the en-
,Iosi,n occurred and saw Billings de-
,osi, a suitcase supposed TO contain
IN, bomb. Subsequently Mooney at
torn.,s charged that oNnan t"StiHco
r.lsrly against Mooney and that h'
s,u..h, to induce +. r. Rigall Of Gray
,.;u, m ,o do likewise. The ILLINOIS
state Federation OF Labor announce
II had similar information. iileai
..,r,., Ia San Francisco and TESTIFIED ~
nxm,r.s trial for attempted suborna-
rion of perjury that ONman induced
him ,o come her" and offered 10 oiNi"'
with him n portion of a large reward
offered for Moneys conviction. oN-
man was acquitted.
|; also was charged that three "'"
~ ,wo of them women had pcrJurc0
themselves to railroad" Mooney 10 'h'
.,,,,ws hut the charges were mol
pressed.
State Court Denies Appeal
Mooney appealed to the California
suprcmc court for a new triai ana III
,,.,. sunrortrd by Il consent filed u!
,r,. .,,,, attorney general. L. :. Webb
Charles NJ. Fickcrt. district attorney
of san Francisco, who prosecute" '"'
,ouh murder case. opposed the con
,,r," as irregular and vicious ana II
ms dismissed. MONEYS appeal WIS
.,nicd. March l. 1918. the supr'h'
curt stipulating it could not '"hS'"''
.yidruc, outside the record.
Mooney appealed to Governor ~"
rh.ns for Il pardon and ln'ah'''i''
Nnnnc>'S attorneys applied to IN" 'r"'
o,,, for q writ OF "coram nohiS' (p'-
r,,,. us the k'nG). an action S'i""''
rcsor,cd 10 whereby suit"rs under 'h'
,munu Law could seek reversal VI
uJmmcn, obtained 10y fraud. A''or-
,,..,s s,iJ all other legal means wer'
Exhausted except this appeal 10 t"'
I,osir law. The application was "e't'
mud IN, hanging reset for August -
1q1S Mooney had been in death TO"
=, San Quentin prison sine" 'niE -
Tho california supreme court 'i''''''''
this denial July ~. 1915. just two years
after the explosion. Five years H''ei
,xoc,lv two years after his arr'S'
Mooney was rcpricvcd to December K
bv Governor stephens TO allow ''''''
f,r him TO review the record.
Action Of the United States Supre"''
,o,,r, November Is. closing the loht
conn, fight. WAS in the form of mem
,,,rdum by chief Justice Whit" rcluS'
ipo =, writ Of cCrtiorari.
During the two years worldw'"e 'P
,..,Is wore made to labor bodies TO a''
~ .ru,nr, Of new trial. Russian RAD
;...Ls n,rodCd in pctrngrad ana mao'
=, demonstration before the American
Embassy The American Federation
~ Labor the London Trade C"nnr'
,,a other organizations made ruh''
,.r,o,Is for a new trial for Mooney
Why McAdoo Retired.-l irci 'h''
, ,.a !, 70 nv old friends mere u