The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-05-04
DUNE ON
THOMAS MOONEY
JURIST WHO TRIED BILLINGS
WRITES SENATOR POM
DEXTER


Washington dispatches Thursday
told of receipt by Senator Poindexter
of the state of Washington of a tele-
gram from Judge Frank H. Dunno
of San Francisco, who tried Warren
Billings, one of the convicted bomb
plotters, which reads as follows:
"All good citizens of California are
indebted to you for your defense Of
the administration of the law in our
state.
"Only radicals, anarchists, near an
archists and Bolsheviki, and those
misled by them, have any views other
than yours, and they have purposely
eized upon the Mooney case as a new
instrument with which to break down
the faith of the country in law and
order, the old forms of sedition and
anarchy having been crushed before
an awakened public opinion.
Don't be fooled by the Oxman
amouflage. The case of Billings, the
first Of these cases tried, was tried,
and Billings was convicted in my
court, before aver Oxman was heard
Of.
Convicted on Same Evidence
"The same evidence vas later pro-
duced against Mooney, in another
court, supplemented by Oxman's tes-
timony, and Mooney was convicted.
However. the conviction did not
come until large sums of money had
been raised and a p~itiless campaign
started to break down by publicity
and terrorism all witnesses for the
state.
Like the Germans, striking at the
strongest point as their best defens.
i've, the Mooney defense picked upon
Oxman's testimony as their greatest
danger point, and fired at 1t with
every kind of poisoned gas that a
well-organized campaign of publicity
could devise.
Oxman Tried, Acquitted
when out of that campaign, Ok
man was charged with s~uborning
perjury, he was placed on trial be-
fore a jury drawn in the usual court
routine and acquitted.
THAT there might be no good
ground for charging that Oxman was
not fairly prosecuted, l, as trial
Judge, caused the district attorney to
retire, and placed the prosecution in
the hands of the attorney general of
the state, Deputies Raymond Benja-
min and John T. Nourse conducting
the case.
"Nourse since has been appointed
a judge in the superior court.
1t is admitted, in printed state
ments issued here by the Mooney
defense league that the defense has
collected from organizations requir-
ing receipts more than 800 700. 1t
is reported that at least another
500, 900 has been collected from
sources which did not ask for re-
ceipts. All this money has been ex-
pended in publicity and in fees to
detectives and lawyers.
Used to Stir Discomfort
you will do the country a great
service by following these cases and
exposing their use by the radicals, in
office and out. to foment discomfort,
sedition and destruction of govern
ment.
And don't let the report of Frank
furter fool YOU. 1t was made on
false reasoning, without investigation
and in total disregard of the rights
of California as a sovereign state.
/ say without investigation, for
Frankfurter did not interview me.
who presided at the trials of Billings
and Oman, nor Judge Emmett Sea-
we'll, who presided at the trials of
Weinberg and Mrs. Mooney, and so
far as l know did not consult with
the district attorney nor with any
other officer representing the state.