The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-08-15


The Government document con-
tanning information proving that
Mooney and Billings are the victims
Of fraud, perjury and frame-up can
now be had by writing to your Con-
/ gresham. ASK FOR DOCUMENT
no. 1871 HOUSE OF REPRESENT
ATIVES This is the complete re-
port obtained by Densmore in his
/ Investigation of the Mooney case in
san Francisco. This report proves:
THE apparent failure of the Dis
trict Attorneys office to conduct
real investigation at the scene Of the
crime.
THE easy adaptability of some of
the star witnesses.
THE Irregular methods pursued by
the prosecution in identifying va
rious defendants.
1.-THE sorry type of men and wom-
en- brought forward to prove essen
tial matters of fact in q case of gray
est importance.
THE seeming inefficiency of a
we'll established alibi.
THE sangfroid with which the
prosecution occasionally adopted an
untenable theory and then changed
to another not quite so preposterous,
THE refusal Of the prosecutor to
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saw the falling of the bomb.
1.-The general flimsiness and i'm
probability of the testimony adduced
together with the total absence of
anything that looks like a genuine
effort to arrive at the facts.
The reading of the testimony in
this case is apt to couse one to Won
der at many things. These things
are calculated to cause in the minds
of the most blase Il decided mental
rebellion.
Mr.. Densmore said he would not
attempt to analyze the evidence, be-
cause by so doing he would play into
the hands of the conspirators by
/ lending a seeming substantially to
an edifice of sand
80 thoroughly have the principal
witnesses for the prosecution been
discredited that practically all of
them have in effect confessed their
parts in the 'frame-up,' leaving lit
tie for the investigation to look into
beyond few questions of motives
and modus operandi-"
The basic motive underlying all
the acts of the prosecution spring
from a determination on the part of
certain employer interests in San
Francisco to conduct their various
business enterprises upon the princi-
pie of the open shop.
AS for their plan of operation it
was simplicity itself. A terrible
4 crime had been committed, and pop
ular indignation and horror every
where had blown to fever heat. From
/ the standpoint of the unscrupulous
among the employer interests, the
( opportunity seemed made to order
To blame the outrage upon certain
I Ia Cy n tho lnhnt, 4
not only possible, but, owing to the
various concomitant Probabilities
/ doubtless appealed among the foes
/ Of organized labor as possessing all
/ the elements of a stroke of genius.
The Densmore report charged that
/ an affinity relationship in crooked
/ dealings exists between District At
/ torney Charles NJ. Fickert and Judge
/ F. w. Henshaw, late of the Supreme
Court of the State of California.
"Henshaw exercised a sinister in
| fluence over the office of the Dis
trict Attorney.
Whenever there has been a le-
/ gal point to consider, or a new phase
( of the testimony or whenever the
| District Attorney has been puzzled
in the conduct of his prosecution. he
| has gone to Henshaw for consulta-
| ton and advice.
"Henshaw represents that group
/ today which he has always repre-
sented-the forces which have made
for corruption in state and CITY mol
itics. Henshaw supplied the brains
which have controlled the awkward
motions of the manikins."
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