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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH; MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1930.

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N the early days of the Russian revolution, when the Allies still thought that Russia could be persuaded to continue the war, President Wilson sent a dis- tinguished journalist as an unofficial ambassador to St.

Vauxhall Petersburg. The first night after his arrival he awoke

to see collected outside his hotel a huge crowd who

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The journalist, impressed by what he took to be American demonstration, inquired what this curious Russian ex- He was thon told that it was the name of pression might mean.

a Californian Labour leader who a little while before had been sentenced to death for supposed participation in a bomb outrage.

This man, Thomas J. Mooney, his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, is after 21 years of confinement, to gain his free- dom. Last week the Californian Governor kept his promise made al the recent gubernatorial elections, to sign a pardon for his release,

Of Mooney's innocence there is no doubt. The judge at his trial, and nine of the ten surviving jurymen, signed a peti- tion for his pardon. Under the heading of the "The Lawless Enforcement of Law,"

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Mooney. In this Phone 27778/9.lengthy report on Mooney's case which com-

pletely vindicated him.

article, Mr. G. H. C. Bing, a well- known barrister authority on in- ternational trials,

übe

Hongkong Telegraph.

Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 January 9, 1939

was sup- This section of the report pressed. However, by a vote of the Senate, President Hoover was compelled to produce it, and it is from that suppressed report that the following facts of the case are taken.

ON the afternoon of July 22, 1916, a bomb exploded during a pro-war

in parade Duy" "Preparedness

killed and Francisco. Nine persons were

San

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MOONEY

"Guilty

or

innocent, they were not going to let him out."

OxrRan

forty wounded. Owing to the the actual scene of the explosion. of the supposed meeting with only haf to say you saw me on. substantiate this theory, Mrs. Mooney to adjust the bomb July 22 in San Frisco, and that Instead, Appeasement or Peace? failure of the police to examine To

house was the site, the nature of the bomb Nolan's

raided, had before the trial made a will be casey dun." THAT WE SHOULD live at was never determined. Though and the District Attorney an- sintement to the police saying the friend handed this letter to After long delays peace with all our neigh-a tin canister had been seen

the Californian authorities were a "mysterious white powder" "astral body"! bours is an ideal that no one falling from the roof of a nearby nounced in a Press release that that she was only present in her the Press.

Even at the time of his trial compelled to prosecute

against Mooney for subornation of perjury. It was not mentioned that the evidence need the fact that some nations a cog-wheel belonging to an al- have adopted forms of Govern-arm clock found near the scene ment very different from our by a souvenir-hunter that the analysis had shown that the was insufficient. Since his con- own be by itself an obstacle to explosion was caused by a time "mysterious white powder" was viction what little evidence there By such methods was has been shown to be

THE enges against Nolan, Mrs. Mooney and Wein- peaceful relationships between bomb concealed in a suitcase. Epsom salt. our democracies and their dieta- No parts of a suitcase were, of Press publicity the District perjured. Mooney had a strong

Attorney and Swanson were able alibi to show that at the time berg, in which he was to have torial. regimes.

however, found.

influence public opinion the bomb exploded he was at been the star witness, had to be but Mooney and home. A private detective, Martin to The difficulty arises, however,

The prosecution pro- dropped,

two witnesses to Billings, whom he was instru- in international policies, for Swanson, previously in the pay against the prisoners.

None of the witnesses for the duced only countries like Germany and of the Employers' Association, Italy and Japan insist on decid- was given charge of the case prosecution was able to identify prove that Mooney was ever on mental in convicting, were kept The injustice of their im- ing for themselves what they by the District Attorney, and he any of the prisoners in an the scene of the explosion. One, in prison.

One of MacDonald, in 1921 made a

confession that his prisonment was universally ac consider their due, and definite-advised the immediate arrest of identification parade. ly set about reaching their goals Mooney, his wife, two other them afterwards, recanting his sworn

their release. The by violent means without any Labour leaders, Warren Billings evidence, stated in an affidavit, evidence was untrue. The other, knowledged. But this did not an upcountry Californian authorities felt that regard to the rights of other and Edward Nolan, and a taxi- "I could not have identified him Osman, was, after the trial, secure peopics. This that makes

true Peace im-driver, Israel Weinberg. The (Mooney) if the detective in- denounced by

four were known to be spector had not turned around farmer, who said that at the they had got two dangerous and said in a low time of the explosion Oxman "Reds" in prison, and, guilty possible. In its place the world enemies of Swanson's.

anarchy, where Swanson's theory was that the voice, 'This is your man, this is was lunching with him and his or innocent, they were not going wife at their farm, some to let them out. It was only by

from Might alone, determines right. bomb

miles had been manufactured Mooney."

San the pressure of world opinion Nolan and

Will There can be no doubt that hundred Japan overruns China, Italy by

adjusted at

that Mooney was saved. Oxman tried to rebut this by world opinion make its pressure Abyssinia, Germany another address by Mooney, the prosecution was aware of Francisco. scizes Austria and Czecho- Billings and Mrs. Mooney, and the unreliable nature of the Slovakia. The League of Na-then taken by Mooney and evidence it was presenting. For writing to a friend asking him sufficiently felt to tions advances a very different Billings in Weinborg's taxi to example, the principal witness to give evidence. "You will release of Billings? plan for World Peace as its objective. It is founded on the democratic virtue of tolerance. The integrity and independence of each nation-however small and insignificant it may be-is to be respected. Violence is no

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"So they gimme a pardon, eh! Well, that's society for you- they teach you a trade, then turn you out where you can't make a livin' at !!!!!

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