EFFORT FOR FREEDOM
TOM MOONEY AGAIN DENIED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. WASHINGTON, October 10. The Supreme Court has refused to review the decision of the California State Court denying freedom to Tom Mooney. Tom Mooney, who was sentenced to death, the sentence being commuted to life imprisonment by President Woodrow Wilson, has been fighting for his freedom for 22 years. He was condemned for complicity in a bombing in San Francisco on July 22, 1916, in which 10 people were killed and 40 injured, and the case has become world famous because of the remarkable developments in it. Mooney remains in jail despite the fact that the chief witness who testified against him has been proved a perjurer, that the President’s Mediation Commission concluded that he did not have a fair trial, and that a photograph has been produced showing Mooney in another place at the time of the explosion, a clock being in the picture. Last year he applied for a writ of habeas corpus and this was denied.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1938, Page 4
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169EFFORT FOR FREEDOM Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1938, Page 4
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