The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-11
FIGHT TO FREE
MOONEY GIVEN
new IMPETUS
Eastern Friends of LITER
Rally to His Help in
Macdonald Hunt.
GOVERNOR is ASSAILED
Young Knew Facts in Case,
Was Aware of Perjury,
Lawyer Says.

BIZ ScriDDs-HOtc1rd NersDGDer Alliance
NEW YORK, July 11.-AS a ma
tion-Wide hunt for John Macdonald,
rail, chatty little waiter, who con-
essed he took part in the Mooney
Billings frameup, got into full swing
oday, MONEYS friends in New York
erved notice they would renew their
tubbern fight to free him from San
Quentin.
Heartened by the San Francisco
News offer of $500 for information
bringing Macdonald back into the
grim picture, Frank P. Walsh, coun-
sci for Mooney and Billings, took
up anew the discouraging job of
rersuading Governor Young to par
con the labor leaders.
Walsh and Edward N. Nockels,
secretary-treasurer of the Chicago
Federation of Labor, who hurried
fere Thursday to consult Walsh, put
their hopes on finding Macdonald.
Young Leaves LoophOle
Governor Young left them that
loophole when he denied appeals
made in September, 1928. Produce
Macdonald" Young said in effect,
land let him convince me that he
perjured himself when he testified
to seeing Mooney and Billings at
Market and Steuart streets in 1916,
just before the Preparedness day
bomb killed ten and injured forty.
But Macdonald may be dead.
Perhaps the nationwide hunt may
not locate him. Walsh and Nockels
and Henry T. Hunt, former mayor
of Cincinnati and chairman of the
national Mooney-Billings committee,
won't stop fighting. If they can
find Macdonald, they will, if he
consents, take him to California,
where he may disclose his perjured
record to Young.
Walsh, who was joint chairman of
the war labor board, and Nockels
sent Macdonald across the CONT
nent in 1921 to tell a grand jury
his part in the frameup. But the
San Francisco grand jury refused
to let Macdonald testify without
threat of indictment.
Witness Goes Free
So Tom Mooney and his friends
humanely spared Macdonald ! the
possibility of a Jail sentence, and,
counting on the affidavit to impress
the supreme court and Governor,
permitted the witness to return
east.
1.-THE Governor knew that" said
Walsh. "He knew Macdonald was
willing in 1921 to try to undo his
wrong, but now he insists, nine
years later, when Macdonald may
be dead, that We produce him
again.
Were this case not reeking with
fraud, had not every principal wit
ness been exposed as a perjurer,
had not the authorities been shown
up as knowingly having framed
Mooney and Billings, the Governors
prudence might be regarded as
commendable, but Macdonald lied
and was induced to lie.
Perjury Is Shown
"Oxman, the Oregon cattle man,
was shown to have been eighty
miles from the scene of the explo-
sion. Oxman and Macdonald were
the only witnesses that testified
against MONEYS alright alibi.
What does Walsh intend to do. if
Macdonald can not be located and
again sent across the continent?
Several avenues are open. In
view of what lie considers the fall
ure of Governor Young to grant a
proper hearing to Mooney and Bill
ings, Walsh considers a possible ap-
peal to the American Bar Associa-
tion-an appeal supported by repu-
table, eminent lawyers of all shades
of opinion, that the association it
self investigate the case through a
committee, if it finds Mooney and
Billings wronged, let it suggest
some way IN which a new trial can
he had