PARDON REFUSED
T. MOONEY’S ALLEGED ACCOMPLICE. GOVERNOR OLSON TO APPLY TO SUPREME COURT. (Independent Cable Service.) SACRAMENTO (Cal.), Feb. 24. The Pardon Board has refused to recommend pardon for Warren Billings, who was convicted as an accomplice of Tom Mooney on the occasion of the Preparedness Day bombing. Governor Olson intends to ask the California Supreme Court to recommend a pardon. Mooney, the "American Dreyfus,’’ who was released on January 6 after spending 22 years in the San Quentin jail, said that he would do his utmost to win freedom for Billings. Billings is not eligible for a pardon because of a prior conviction for felony.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19390227.2.58
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1939, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
106PARDON REFUSED Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1939, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in