Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-28


 intended and partial publicity" The report was published November 22nd and was said to have dealt largely Mlth the case of Mrs. Rena Herman Mooney, wife of Thomas J. Mooney. under sentence of death as the result of the preparedness day bomb ex- ploslon in San Francisco.
 Ill the report as published. it was alleged that evidence against Mrs. Mooney was Manufactured" and mem tlon was made of a former justice of the California Supreme Court, a mem- per or the public prosecutors office ana other persons connected with the cases growing out of the eXplos- lon. Mrs. Mooney was indicted with her husband and three others on ten counts, charging murder. She was ac- qultted on one count, four were dis missed, and she is now at liberty on ball awaiting disposition of the oth- CT counts
 In thls telegram to Governor Steph- ems. today. Secretary Wilson crit1cis- ed investigation of the Densmore charges by the San Francisco grand
 Jury. saying that this body does not
 seem the impartial and appropriate instrument of investigation the situa- ton calls for inasmuch as the inquiry concerns the district attorney who is legal adviser of the grand jury Secretary Wilson's telegram fol- lows:
 Am in receipt or wire from the Grand Jury of the city and county of San Francisco requesting me to in- struct MT. John Densmore, director general of the United States Employ ment Service, now outside of San francisco to return to San Francisco for the purpose of assisting the grand jury i'll the investigation of certain , charges of corruption contained in his report to you, published in the San Francisco Call, on November 2onu, 1918. Will you also instruct him to turn over all information in his pos. session regarding said charges so that l a thorough investigation may be made?
 The report referred to, was intend cd by me to be submitted to you for such attention as the facts therein re- veal made appropriate and was not in- tended to have publicity unless you so desired. The fact that the report has received unintended and partial pub |licity should not modify the purposes
 1 had in mand. Any further action in regard to the Mooney case is left en- tirely with you, and whatever material the Federal government has bearing upon such action should, therefore, ! be placed at your disposal. am in- lstructing Mir. Densmore to put into your hands complete copy of his re- port to me, and l am also inseructfng him to place himself entirely at your disposal. Inasmuch as the investiga- tion to which the grand jury refers concerns, the district attorney who is the legal adviser of the same grand jury it does not seem to me the inn partial and appropriate instrument of the investigation the situation calls for. Nevertheless any means or agen- cies of investigation ill regard to those new charges or any others growing out of the Mooney case selected by you will receive the fullest possible cooperation at my hands.
 "I am sending copy of this tele- gram to the foreman of the grand jury as reply to his request" Sacramento, Califr., Nov. 27.-- Assurance that the case of Thomas J. Mooney, sentenced to hang, would be given today by Governor William D. Stephens to members of a commltte. of the San Francisco labor council, who called to ask the executive to open the way for a retrial of the case Sacremento, Cal, Nov. 27.-This statement was made by D. c. Murphy, president of the California state fed eration of labor, who headed the com
 mittee. He said Governor Stephens did not indicate when we would act on
 Mooneys petition for pardon ol what course we would take.
 Mooney was sentenced to hang for l murder of one of the victims of the preparedness day parade bomb ex- plosion in San Francisco, July 22nd l 1916. Murphy said as spokesman for tho committee he had emhasized his be- lief that developments since the con viction of Mooney had "created doubt in the public mind and urged
 that in the interest of justice, the
 defendant should be given ne" trial"
 Washington. Nov. 27.-John B
 Densmore, director general of tho
 Federal employment service, was in structed today by Secretary of Labor Wilson to furnish to Governor Steph
 ems of California, copy of his repor in the Mooney case. He also was dir
 ectcd to place himself entirely at th'
 governors disposal.
 In telegram notifying Governo
 Stephens of his action, MT. Wllsoi
 revealed that the foremen of tn
 grand jury at San Francisco investl gating charges of irregularity mad in Mir. Densmore's report had aske' Ito furnish the jury with copy.
 The labor secretary's telegram t. Al~ o<L /,