The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-22
President Wilson
 Saved Mooney
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their fight for liberty, since Billings was sent to Folsom prison after the bomboing trial as a two time loser"
 After the Richmond affair Mooney became associate editor of "The Blast" vitriolic labor publi- cation. He was assisted by Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, both deported to Russia in 1919 as anarchists.
 Only July 22, 1916, San Francis co held gigantic preparedness parade.
 On Steuart street, a contingent of Spanish-American War veterans was drawn up beside g. little brick saloon awaiting the signal to start. Spectators stood nearby cheering.
 Suddenly there was 8 terrific
 Nine were killed, and tenth died later. Forty others were badly hurt.
 District Attorney Charles L. Fick- ert investigated. The time of the ex- plosion was fixed at 2:06 p. m.
 Edward Nolan, officer in the Ma chinists' Union. Israel Weinberg, taxi driver, Mooney and his wife and Billings were arrested.
 A waiter, John Mcdonald, toid Fickert he saw a man with 8 suit case leave taxicab near the sa- loon at Steuart and Market streets. Another man strolled out of the sa- loon, met the one with the sult- case. As they walked along, Nc Donald said, the suitcase was put down. The two men conversed conorofod and left.
 Mcdonald identified Billings as the man with the suitcase and Mooney as his companion. The grand jury brought murder indict- ments against the Mooneys, Billings Weinberg and Nolan.
 Billings. 22 years old, was tried first. Mcdonald testified against him. Billings was convicted in Sep tember. 1916, of second degree murder, and sent to Folsom TOT life.
 Mrs Mooney and Weinberg were tried and acquitted. Nolan was re- laased without trial.
 Fickert was in a difficult posi- ton when Mooney came to trial Tn January. 1917, six months after the bombing. To his aid came Frank Oxman, Durkee, Ore, cattleman.
 Oxman said he had been visiting in woodland. Calif, and came to the city the day of the blast. He told the fury he saw Weinberg drive a "jitney bus' to the corner of Steu- art and Market streets with Mrs Mooney and Billings and an un1den- tified man. The man got out with the suitcase, Billings after him, and placed it at the point where the blast later occurred, Oxman said. Then, he continued, Mooney got out of the machine. talked with the two men and drove away with Billings.
 Mcdonald repeated his story. Fickert made no attempt to explain the discrepancy in the suitcase tes- timony. Nor did he reconcile OK mans statement that he ate Tn a nearby restaurant between the tune of the suitcase episode and the ex- plosion, with McDona1d's claim that only minute or two elapsed Mooney's chief defense was pho tographs showing him and Mrs Mooney on the roof of their apart ment building watching the parade, | A clock in the picture showed the times as 1858, 2:01 and 2:04 pm. by actual measurment, the building was 6,0SS feet fro mthe blast scene more than a mile. The time or the explosion was 2:06 p. m. Mooney was convicted of first de- | gree murder in February, 1917. and ] Judge Franklin A. Griffin, sentenc- ed him to hang.
 On April 6, 1917. Frenk B. Ri- gals of Graville, III made an af1i- davit and produced letters to him | from Oxman in which the cattie- man Allegedly asked him to come to San Francisco and testify. Ox- | mans trial testimony was untrue. Judge Griffin called upon Attorney General U. S. Webb of California and said if this evidence had been before him he would have granted Mooney a new trial.
 Webb filed a "consent that judge ment be reversed" with the su- preme court. But in a : ,cision in September 1917. the court refused to recognize Webb's stipulations and denied a new trial because "These matters are not part of the trial record" It added that power in such cases rests with the execu- tive" putting the case squarely be- fore Governor William D. Stephens. Oxman was indicted on perjury charge.
 Stephens took no action until 1918 when President Wilson urged him to grant Mooney new trial. Stephens commuted Mooneys sem tence to life Imprisonment and then passed the famous convict's fate on 10 Governor Friend W. Richard son. The latter granted no hearings but pasesd the case on to Governor c. c. Young who in turn passed it on 10 the present executive, Rolph.
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