Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-24
MOONEY DIDN'T , GET FAIR TRIAL,
 SAYS DENSM0RE
Congress Receives Report of Special Agent of Depart
 ment of Justice.

Washington, July Exchanges of
 labor leaders that Thomas J. Mooney
 was unjustly convicted for participa- tion in the bomb throwing outrage
 in San Francisco three years ago,
 were supported in report of John
 B. Densmore, special agent of the de-
 partment of labor, submitted to the
 house today in response to resolu- tion demanding more information on the case.
 The prosecution was conducted
 without a real investigation of the crime, MT. Densmore declared, and with deliberate intent to frame" the
 labor leader.
 "The plain truth" MT. Densmore said, "is that there is nothing about the case to produce feeling of con- fidence that the dignity and majesty of the law have been upheld. There is nowhere anything resembling con- sistency, the effect being patch work of incongruous makeshift and often of desperate expediency." Washington, July 23.-Thomas J.
 Mooney did not receive full justice in his trial at San Francisco for alleged
 connection with the Preparedness day
 bomb explosion, according to report by John B. Densmore, former special agent of the department of justice, who investigated the case for the
 government, he reported dated Mo-
 vember Il, 1918, was submitted to
 the house today in response to a resolution.
 | Much of the information obtained by Densmore and his assistants the report said, was secured by use of dictagraphs placed in the office of Charles M. Fickert, district attorney
 of San Francisco, where it was kept several months.
 Mr. Densmore's objections to the
 trial, as enumerated i'm his report,
 include the following:
 "The apparent failure of the dis trict attorneys office to conduct a
 real investigation at the scene of the
 crime; the easy adaptabality of some
 of the star witnesses; the irregular
 method pursued by the prosecution in
 identifying various defendants; the
 sorry type of men and women brought
 forward to prove essential matters
 of fact in a case of the gravest inn portance; the sanfroid with which
 the prosecution occasionally adopted
 an untenable theory and then chang
 ed to another not quite so preposter-
 ous and the refusal of the public prosecution to call witnesses who actually saw the falling of the bomb. y Action of District Attorney Flick
 ert in asking for a new trial after the testimony of Frank C. Oxman
 was proven perjury, and then refus-
 ing 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 interests most bitterly opposed to
 union labor. Fickert's efforts hence
 forth were directed at clumsy at
 tempt to whitewasil Oxman and just ify his own motives and conduct
 throughout"
 More than 100 closely written pages of conversations of District At-
 torney Fickert obtained by the dicta- graph placed in his office, were con- tained in the report.
 May be Anarchistic Plot. Secretary Wilson, in his statement
 refused to state what connection en-
 ployes of the department 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. It is continuing these in-
 vestigations and it is not deemed compatible with the public interests
 to disclose at this time it's activities,
 thereby placing in the hands of alien
 anarchists the means of protecting
 themselves from deportation" II What the government may do fur ther to aid Mooney is a perplexing question. The case is one wholly within the jurisdiction of the courts of California. The governor of the state already has commuted his sen- tence from death to life imprison- | ment