Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-24
Q Q Q . . Q . 0 . . . Q . o . .


lsY hoRNine JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wiREl
Washington. July 2S,-Thomas J.I
Mooney did not receive full justice inl
his trial at San Francisco for alleged
connection with the preparedness dayI
bomb explosion, according to a report!
by John b. Densmore, former special
agent of the department of justice,
who investigates the case for ths gev-
eminent. The report. dated Novem
her /, 1918, was submitted to theI
house today in response to a resolu |
ton.
'The plain truth is" the report said, !
that there is nothing about the case
to produce feeling of confidence
that the dignity and majesty of the
law have been upheld.
There is nowhere anything resem-i
bling consistency, the effort being al
patchwork of homogeneous evidences"
The resolution called for informa-
ton as to activities of the department
of labor in the case and Densmore's
report was forwarded by Secretary
Wilson, accompanying his own state-I
ment.
Used Dictagraphs.
Much of the information obtained
by Eensmore and his assistants, theI
report said. was secured by use Of the
dictas raphs placed in the Office of
Charles M. Fickert, district attorney
Of san Francisco.
Nor Denmores objections to the
trial, as enumerated in his report in
clude the following:
THE apparent failure of the district
attorneys office to conduct real in
vestigation at the scene of the crime;
the easy adaptability of some of the
star witnesses; the irregular methods
pursued by the prosecution in identi-
flying various defendants: the sorry
type of men and women brought for
ward to prove essential matters of
fact in case of gravest Importance:
the seeming efficacy of well estab-
lished alibi; the sangfroid with which
the prosecution occasionally adopted
an untenable theory and then changed
to another not quite so preposterous,
and the refusal of the public prose-
cutor to call witnesses who actually
saw the falling of the bomb
Testimony Discredited.
In short, at the general flimsiness
and ilnprobability of the testimony
adduced together with a total absence
of anything that looks like a genuine
effort to arrive at the facts in the
case.
THE reading of the testimony in
this case is apparent to cause one to
wonder at many things. These things
are calculated to cause in the minds
of the most blase decided mental
rebellion
Action of District Attorney Tickert
in asking for new trial after the
testimony of Frank c. Oman, was
a naTinrv nd inc
to agree to it, was attacked in the
report.
There were excellent grounds for
the belief said the report, that the
prosecuting attorneys sudden change
of attitude was prompted by ennis
saries from some of the corporate in
terests most bitterly opposed to union
labor. Fickert's efforts henceforth
were directed at clumsy attempt to
whitewash Oxman and justify his own
motives and conduct throughout"
More thar 100 closely written pages
Of conversations of District Attorney
Tiekert obtained by The dictagraph
placed in his office were contained in
the report Tie conversations. it was
sad, were heard by two or mere per-
sons
Detailed by Secretary.
Secretary Wilson, in his statement,
said that he had instructed Mr.. Dens-
more to obtain information regarding
the Mooney case after the secretary
had been made chairman of the presl-
dents mediation committee which
studied disturbed industrial conditions
in the west. He refused to state what
connection employees of the depart
ment have had with the case since
the trial.
THE department of labor" he said,
Through its immigration bureau, IS
authorized to deport alien anarchists.
Its investigation in these cases have
developed clues that led to the
Mooney case. Il il continuing these