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sI’liAKS I on ITSKI.I .
“Itena Mooney has been acquitted
but she is still in prison awaiting
the pleasure oi the San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce.
The jury has declared that she
is innoent. They heard not only
the relevant evidence of the case,
but also the "conspiracy evidence”
relating to strikes and other things
not even remotely connected with
the crime which was allowed by
Judge Sea well and which was de
signed to hang Mrs Mooney.
Twelve men, whose every preju
dice, radical, social, and religious,
was appealed to by the snarling
beast Fiekert, and his “human
stiletto,” Ferrari l who had the au
dacity to admit in his (losing ad
dress to the jury that his star wit
ness, Samuels, had perjured, him
self*. rose above the poisoned atmos
phero and did simple Justice.
The scene in the court room baffles
descriptic The friends of the de
fense w.-re alarmed, when on the
previous day the jury came into
court and asked about the law on
second degree murder, also a letter
which contained a slight reference
to the del endant. The jury was then
said to he split, eight favoring ac
quittal and four conviction. Their
asking for the law bearing on se
cond degree murder was thought
to in i ate that they were consider
ing that most infamous of all ver
dicts, a compromise one.
Hut as they filed into court at
3:40 on Wednesday evening, after
llifty hours deliberation, the vener
able juror. August Krz, smiled a
kindly benediction on Mrs. Belle
Mamnterherg, the splendidly devot
ed sister of Rena Mooney. A mo
mentary glance disclosed the fact
that instead of the strained features
we saw when they came into court
tlie previous day. most of the jury
men looked immensely relieved and
many of them smiled openly. •
Judge Seawoll, who 1ms consist
ently ruled against the defense,
glanced at the verdict sheet and
with a sour look he handed it to the
clerk of the court.
There was a breathless silence, ft
seemed an age before we caught the
words. “NOT Gl'II-TV.’’ Then like
the roar of ore a 1 r- aV. ;■ came
the applause o: tit,1 w, r a . men
and women who packed tin court
room, corridors and street. The
court attaches, who have seen two
men convicted on absolute perjury,
didn't try very hard to suppress the
enthusiasm. It ran riot. Renai
Mooney tearfully kissed the jurors,
whilst Fiekert jumped into his high
nowered auto and speed to his favo
rite saloon to seek solace in liis
nips. The big corporate tool wasn't
in court. He got wind of the ver
dict and ran. Ferrari wasn't there, j
lie was unavoidably absent in the;
country. Plug-Ugly Jim Brennan,
.-.ylett Cotton, who barefacedly told
Chief Justice Angellotti that though
lie was prosecuting Oxnian yet he
■endorsed the view of Oxman's lawy
er, Shortridge, that the perjury
buyer be turned loose; Fred Berry
whose personal friend, Malpiede. was I
caught "planting” a “friend" on the
jury—all those "law ond order",
lights were nowhere to be seen. Of
all the gang. Fickert's detective. I
"Collector" Williams, was the only j
specimen in sight. He looked ill.,
The night a corrupt jury declared j
that Tom Mooney should be murder j
cd, Williams belligerently jostled,
the defence attorneys and friends in j
the hope of starting a riot and gett
ing an excuse to make a shambles j
of the court room. Williams looked
pretty sick Wednesday. During the
trial he has been badgering wit
nesses for registration cards
and threatening them with his
hand and his gun. Itena Mponey’s
acquittal may mean the dismissal
of thugs of his type.
The newspaper extras sold like
hot cakes. The workers stared at
the caption. "Rena Mooney Acquit
ted." till their eyes bulged. Rena
Mooney acquitted! Rena Mooney
back in her music studio with her
devoted little pupils. Rena Mooney
walking the streets of San Fran
cisco despite the perjury gang, the
Oxrnans, the Rosters and all their
gunmen.
Oh. what a gloiious victory!
But
The acquittal of Rena Mooney
wasn't an acquittal after all. She
was hurried back to her cell and as
soon as Fickert recovered his
breath, he called the reporters to
gether and told them that the ac
quital meant nothing to him. "I’li
hang her yet," he told them. "There
are seven more indictmenst and I
can try her again and again".
Is there anything more illustrative
of the frame-up? “They should be
strung up without ceremony,” the
enraged Cunnha shouted a few
week* ago. "I wouldn’t lift a fin
ger to save Mooney, even if I knew
that every one of my witnesses com
mitted perjury."
The Chamber of Perjury held a
mass meeting a few days after the
boys and Rena Mooney were arrest
ed and sought to fan the indigna
tion of the people into a lynching.
Tin bought press roared their ap
proval and spurred on the mob
spirit but the quiet determination
of tin fearless unionists of San
Francisco defeated the scheme and
gradually the people decided that
th< mere arresting ot' Hie unionists
I did not indicate their guilt
But again and again the mob
spirit has raised its head, not among
the mass ot the people, hut in the
office of Charles Marion Fickert, tin
abject tool of the corporation
beasts of California.
Fickert now announces that he’ll
ge- a jury of women to try Rena
Mooney the next time They’ll not
lie so squeamish about hanging her.
he thinks.
Perhaps that’s why Fickert’s wife
mother and their bunch of cronies
made a vaudeville show out of tell
trial last week.
The prosecutor's mother and wife
sat immediately behind Rena
Mooney, laughing at the plight of
Rena Mooney's sister and the aged
mother of Tom Mooney. Their gigg
ling glances met the eyes of Mrs.
Hemreerberg every time she looked
down tin court room. The suffering
of Rena Mooney was a matinee for
them.
Such a jury would indeed hang
Rena Mooney. Not‘alone would they
retrun a hanging verdict, but they
would be perfectly willing to carry
out the sentence with dagger, gun
or rope.
It must have been womtn su< h i
us these that Fickert had in mind,
when he told the newspapers that
lie'll hat>g Kena Mooney the next
time with a jury of women.
The notable feature of the trial
was the cross examining of the dif
ferent members of the perjury ring
by Attorney Ed. McKenzie, a mem
ber of Local No. C of the Electrical
Workers' Union.
His aggressiveness and determin
ation to get at the truth angered
the prosecution so much that Judge
Seawell repeatedly fined him. When
Sadie Ede.au was breaking down on
the witness stand under McKenzie's
fiery cross-examination, Seawell
saved the situation by declaring a
recess of court A few days later
McKenzie told Seawell in open court 1
that he wasn't giving Rena Mooney
a fair trial. The remark cost Mc
Kenzie $50.
After the victory, McKenzie gave
the following interview to “Orga
nized Labor”:
The simple truth triumphed over
perjury, coiruption, bias and intol
erance. The aeciuittal of Mrs. Moon
ey morally is a conviction of Wit
ness Osman and Prosecutor Fickert.
The trial of Mrs. Mooney has been
the most disgraceful trial ever had
in an American court room. There
was no evidence, nothing but cor
ruption and prejudice. Had she
been convicted under such circurn- j
stances the consequences to the Am
erican people would have been fai l
greater than the loss of war.
San Francisco jurors can no long
cr he used by corpora? tor..-; to hang
working men and working w;ss r
whose legitimate e-forts for bette:
ment arouse tile enmity of employ
ers. The slimy trail of the per
jurer was plainly visible throughout
the entire case. When Assistatr
Prosecutor Cunha said to Reportei
Fitch of the Survey Magazine. “P
I knew that every single wittiest
who testified against Tom Mooneg
perjured himself in his testimony
I would not life a finger to get him
a new trial” Cunha expressed bettei
than we can the attitude of those
officials of San Francisco who owe
their positions to corrupt public
service corporations. No more dread
ful indictment can be drawn
against these officials than to quote
Mr. Cut.ha's statement
Our enemies have been circulat
ing the report that with the Oxman
expose the entire prosecution had
fallen flat. Consequently our
friends have slackened up. They
must remember that:
1. Oxman is at liberty. He'll be
tried, "some time”, in judge
r cujik uuiine s
luuri anu wit; oe
‘prosecuted" by assistant district at
torney Bianchi, brother-in-law to
Oxman’s co-conspirator, Charles
Fickert. Dunne called the defense
attorneys “'a bunch of cowardly
blackguards", a few months ago,
and it was he who picked Sea well
the notoriously partisan judge, who
tried Rena Mooney.
2. Tom Mooney is still in the
shadow of the Gallows. Attorney
General U. S. Webb has ignored the
request of Judge Franklin A Grifhin
who demanded at ter the Oxman ex
posure that Webb take immediate
steps towards securing a new trial
for Mooney. Webb refuses to take
any action whatsoever and Tom
Mooney will hang, unless strenuous
efforts are made by organized labor.
3. Ed. Nolan and Israel Wein
berg will be tried in a few weeks.
The only evidence against Nolan
was a box of epsom salts found in
'he basement of his house. The
prosecution dropped the theory dur
ing Rena Mooney's trial that the
salts was a "High Explosive." Stilt
they declare they will hang Nolan.
The fight will have to be kept up.
We’ll have to tight every inch of the
ground. The exposure of Oxman
and the acquittal of Rena Mooney
are only incidents.
Our friends must NOT lay down
their arms with the expectation
that the tight is won. We have cap
tured a lew trenches only. The pri
soners at the rear must be rescued.
Agitate, hold meetings and raise
all the funds you can! We have in
curred huge expenses in this trial.
The result speaks for itself.
We must have immediate funds
to tight the remaining trials and
appeals.
Send your contributions at once
to International Workers’ Defense
League, 210 Hitss Building. San
Francisco.
No. 2734.
SIMMONS TOIl Tl 111,11 ATIO.V.
In the District Court for the District
of- Alaska, Second Division.
AM K RICAN MANGANESE STEEL
COMPANY, a corporation,
Plaintiff,
ALASKA MINES CORPORATION, a
corporation. Nome Consolidated
Dredging Company, a corporation,
Alaska Dredging Company, a cor
poration, E. E. Powell, George D.
Schofield. J. M. Sloan, E. L. Web
i “
I ster, M. W. Newton, Louis Eisen
lolir, F. H. Thatcher, Trustee, C.
E. Darling, Trustee and E. E.
Powell, Trustee,
Defendants.
j The President of the United Slates
| of America.
To E. E. Powell, E. L. Webster,
I M. W. Newton, Louis Eisenlohr, F.
H. Thatcher. Trustee, and E. E.
Powell, Trustee, defendants above
] named,
Greeting :
You, and each of you, are hereby
summoned and required to appear
and answer the complaint of the
plaintiff on file in the office of the
clerk of the above-entitled court at
the City of Nome, in said district of
Alaska, Second Division, within
thirty (30) days from the service
of this summons upon you, to-wit:
from the 1st day of September,
1917, or judgment for want thereof .
will be taken against you.
And you are hereby notified that
if you fail to answer the said com
plaint the plaintiff will take judg
ment against you. and each of you,
as prayed for in plaintiff’s com
plaint. to-wit: For a decree of the
n hnvp-pnt court cancc11inp, n?ifl I
j setting aside that certain decree of
foreclosure heretofore made and en
tered on the first day of July, 1915,
in cause N'o. 260S entitled F. H.
Thatcher, trustee, et al, plaintiffs,
versus Xome Consolidated Dredging
Company, a corporation, et al. de
fendants, and for a decree setting
aside certain sales of real and per
sonal property made under and in
accordance with said decree and also
for the appointment of a receiver
to take possession of the assets of
the defendant Nome Consolidated
Dredging Company, real and per
sonal, mentioned, set forth and de
scribed in said decree, and for the
sale of said assets and the payment
of a judgment obtained in cause NTo
26811 entitled American Manganese
Steel Company, a corporation, plain
tiff, versus Nome Consolidated
Dredging Company, a corporation,
defendant, for the sum of Thirty
Thousand Nine Hundred Twenty
($30,920.00) Dollars and interests
and costs;
And you, and each of you, are
hereby further notified that if you
fail to answer the said complaint,
the plaintiff will take judgment
against you as officers and stockboid
ers of the defendant Xome Consol
idated Dredging Company, a corpo
i >11 11; 11 , 1UI lilt* 1U11 .U11UUIU Ul SU1U
judgment above described, to-wit: |
the sum of Thirty Thousand Nine 1
Hundred Twenty ($30,920.00) .,
Dollars and legal interest, costs and
accruing costs. m
The date of the order of publi
cation of this , summons is July
20th, 1917.
The date of the first publication
of this summons is July 21st, 1917.
The date of last publication is
September 1, 1917.
WITNESS the Honorable J. R.
Tucker, Judge of the District Court
for the District of Alaska, Second
Division and the seal of said Court
hereunto affixed at Nome, Alaska,
this 20th day of July, 1917.
(SEAL)
G. A. ADAMS.
Clerk of the District Court for the j *“
District of Alaska, 2nd Division. —
T. M. Reed and William A. Gilmore |
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Nome, Alaska.
J. 21, 28, A. 4, 11, IS, 25, S. 1.
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Commencing Today,
AUGUST 11,
The Price of Bread will
be 10c. a loaf straight.
Other Goods raise in
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Without Additional Charge.
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SEPTEMBER 2 SEPTEMBER 14.
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August31th.
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CHWOK IN COAIj PRICES.
On Any. Hltli, Wellington Coil will lie $23.00 per ton in yard.
On and alter September 25tli, Wellington Coal will be $25.00 pr
ton in yard. Briquets will continue at $18.00 per ton in yard.
We ate experiencing great dittieulty in securing anthracite
coal lor winter use and cannot guarantee having any quantity
on bund.
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