FALSE WITNESS
MEN WRONGLY IMPRISONED. SAN FRANCISCO, July 30. It is expected that as the result of an enquiry by a special Supreme Court Bench, Thomas Mooney and Warren Billings, who were sentenced in 1910 to imprisonment for life on charges ,of participating in the Preparedness Day bomb outrages, may soon be released. John (Macdonald, a grey-haired waiter, has confessed that his evidence, on which, mainly, the men were convicted, was false. Through his tears the self-confess-ed perjurer persisted that he identified photographs of Billings and Mooney n few days after the outrage when these photos had already been indicated to him by a police sergeant. He declared again and again that ibe District Attorney, Charles Ficlcert, had coached him in the evidence he gave before the grand jury.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1930, Page 5
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129FALSE WITNESS Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1930, Page 5
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