A dispatch of March 1 announced
that the supreme court of California
had denied the writ of rev’ew in the
case of Thomas J. Mooney, who v as
convicted of complicity in the San
Francisco “Preparedness” lay bomb
murders. Unless pardoned the verdict
of death of the lower court will he car
ried out.
Ramifications of the murder trial of
Thomas J. Mooney, included an inves
tigation ordered by President Wilson,
and disturbances on the streets of
Petrograd.
The President’s rnedation commis
sion, which was directed to examine
the situation while carrying on its
work on the Pacific coast, said, in a
report made public January 26 that
changes in the evidence brought out in
connection with the trials of other de
fendants “cast doubt upon the prior
convictions of Hillings and Mooney,”
and that while the record of each trial
t
separately might be such as io p-e
clude appeal, the records of all trials
taken together ' lease the muid in the
greatest uncertainty as to the com
plicity of the accused.”
Warren L. Billings, referred to in
the report, was the first man tried f ir
murder in connection with a bomb ex
jilosion in a "Preparedness" day par
ade here July 22, 1916, and he was
sentenced to life imprisonment. He
is now serving sentence at Folsom
prison. Mooney who came next, was
convicted of murder in the first de
gree February 9, 1917, and sentenced
February 24 to be hanged. A promin
ent witness was Frank C. Oxman of
Durkee, Oregon.
The trial judge later advised the
attorney general of California that in
view of later developments Mooney
should be retried. One of the reasons,
lie said, was that F. E. Rigall of Gray
ville, III., had offered letters bearing
Osman's signature, urging him to come
out and testify in the case. Oxman
was tried for subornation of perjury
and was acquitted. He was not used
as a witness in later trials. The at
torney general in turn filed with the
supreme court a “consent” to a new
trial. The supreme court found noth
ing in the constitution enacting it to
act on such a document and proceeded
with consideration ot an appeal which
had been filed previuosly. This is the
appeal, decision on which was given
March 1.
Russia Excited Over Case
Cables' from Petrograd concerning
street demonstrations over “Mooney,
the anarchist,” reported in Russia to
have been hanged in San Francisco,
meanwhile directed attention of the
state department to the case. Presi
dent Wilson communicated with Gov
ernor William D. Stephens of Cali
fornia, and was advised that Mooney’s
appeal, filed February 24, 1917, was
still pending, and he could not be
hanged unless the appeal were decided
adversely.
Mooney’s wife, Mrs. Rena Mooney,
was tried next, and also acquitted.
Israel Weinbery, another defendant,
followed, and also was acquitted. Both
were charged with murder. After
their acquittal they were held in jail
I without bail, on the ground that they
j were still under indictments of murder
one indictment having been voted for
each of several victims of the ex
plosion. Edward D. Nolan, a fifth de
fendant, who said he could prove he
! was in Baltimore, Md.. the day of the
explosion attending a labor convention,
was released on bail and has not been
brought to trial.
Story of the Crime
Shortly after 2 o’clock on the after
| noon of July 22. 1916, occurred the
bomb explosion out of which grew the
Mooney, Billings, and Weinberg mur
der cases that attracted world wide at
tention to San Francisco. A parade ad
vocating national preparedness was in
progress when the bomb exploded.
Several men and women were killed
instantly. Other persons died subse
quently, and the final total of dead
was ten. Forty otho - persons were
injured.
Mooney, Mrs. Mooney, and Warren
K. Billings, who had taken prominent
parts in labor agitation in California,
! were arrested several days later.
Weinberg's arrest followed, as did that
of Edward D. Nolan, an official of the
San Francisco Machinists' Union. No
lan is the only one of the five who has
not yet been tried. He also was the
only defendant granted release on
bail.
Billings was the first defendant
tried. He was convicted and is serv
ing a life imprisonment at Folsom
prison. His appeal was carried to the
supreme court, and denied. Mooney,
tried next, was sentenced to death.
Execution of this sentence was stayed
by the appeal to the supreme court.
Mrs. Mooney and Weinberg were ac
quitted.
Many ramifications resulted in the
vlireoting of world-wide attention to
ward the trials. Labor unions through
out the country and Europe were ap
pealed to go on the ground that money
was needed to obtain able counsel.
In the Petrograd revolution, which
caused the fall of Czar Nicholas, revo
lutionists carried banners which cited
! the case of Mooney as an alleged ex
, ample of oppression.
; This and interest displayed by labor
unions, resulted in an investigation by
a mediation commission appointed by
President Wilson in connection with
j other disturbances. This commission
i was headed by Secretary of Labor
William B. Wilson, and included Dr.
j Felix Franfurter, former professor of
jurisprudence at Columbia university,
later connected with the faculty of
Harvard university. In its report to
| the President, the commission recom
! mended that Mooney be granted a new
I trial, and suggested that his retrial
cquld be held on one of the remaining
murder charges against him. The
President, after receving the report,
wrote a letter to Governor Stephens of
I California, but the contents of the let
ter have not been divulged.
| Charges of irregularity in the prose
cution of the trials led to an election
for the recall of District Attorney
Fickert, who was re-elected.
EICH III MEMBER TO
BE DEED RESPONSIBLE
The charge against Austin, Jensen,
Hills, Peterson and Rabien, the com
mittee of the Nome Miners’ Union
alleged to be responsible for the pub
lication of the Industrial Worker,
which printed the alleged seditious
utterance for which ts editor was con
victed, was dismissed on January
35 by United States • Commissioner
Hugh O’Neil upon motion of District
Attorney G. P. Mundy. The district
attorney said that the complaint stated
the defendants were charged with hav
ing supervision and management over
said newspaper, but since the filing of
the complaint it had developed that
the defendants were not the members
of the union who constituted the news
paper committee on the aforesaid date.
Judge O. D. Cochran represented the
defendants. The district attorney
stated that the government would con
sider each individual member of the
Miners’ Union responsible for any se
ditious article which may hereafter
appear in the columns of the afore
said newspaper.
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OLD CLOTHING WANTED
I can use to a great advantage baby
garments and clothing for boys and
girls under the age of twelve years.
The native mothers and children ap
preciated your former gifts. If you
can further assist them plfcme 153, and
Rev. Shriver will call for your clean,
cast-off clothing.
NOTED RUSSIAN AUTHOR
IS FOLLOWER OF LENINE
A Petrograd dispatch says that Max
im Gorky, the famous Russian novel
ist and publisher of one of the leading
dailies in that city, has swung to the
support of the Bolsheviki, and declares
the Bolsheviki are an extremely im
portant element in Russian democracy.
Gorky reproaches the Kerensky re
. gime for mobilizing Cossacks against
the Bolsheviki, and declares that Ker
1 ensky should have instantly surren
dered his powers as minister-president
1 and cleared the track for a purely
democratic government with a motto
of “Peace, land, and a constituent as
sembly.’’
Gorky adds that Kerensky's attempt
i to oppose such a government has been
a crime of the greatest dimensions.
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VOCATIONAL TRAINING
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
“Woman’s Century,” the official or
gan of the National council of women
1 of Canada, reports that a survey is to
, be made by the provincial government
| of Outaria to secure definite informs
; tion as to the occupational opportuni
ties in Ontario ror boya and girls, with
the view of establishing vocational bu
reaus. The won.cn have salted that
| bureaus to gather data concerning the
I nature and cost of the training re
quired for girls to enter the various
I trades and professions to to organized
and supervised by women experts.
OUR LADY PATRIOTS
IT WAS on
AN ERRAND.
IN THE interest.
OF SOLDIER boys.
THAT TOOK me to.
MRS. LYDICK’S home
| UPON MY word.
I DID not know.
| SIXTEEN LADIES.
WERE WITHIN.
AS I ventured in.
TO THEIR surprise.
AND TO my.
EMBARRASSMENT.
I WAS struck.
AS YOU would be.
BY THE beautiful.
DEPICTED THERE.
WITHOUT THE aid of.
CAMOUFLAGE.
EACH ONE engaged.
SOME SEWING lights.
SOME SEWING lefts.
WHAT APPEARED to be.
PAJAMAS.
FOR HERO hoys.
WHO WILL dare to go.
OVER THE top.
A NO B'E struck down.
I SAT me down.
AS I ’vtv? bid. -
BY T"E size.
I WOULD believe.
IN JUNIOR S chair.
TO WAIT n moment.
v t
AS I was told.
MINUTES CAME.
MINUTES WENT
WITH MY knees.
• UP TO inv chin.
I S'T and pondered.
AND TOOK all in.
, AS WHO were there.
AND WHAT they did.
I LISTENED to.
THEIR CHATERING.
OR WHATEVER it is.
THAT LADIES do.
WHEN TOGETHER.
AND IT was good.
LADIES THERE.
OF EVERY mind.
YOUNG AND old.
IN EXPERIENCE.
BUT TODAY.
THEY WERE one.
j IN HEART and mind.
J ANI) LOVELINESS.
! EACH ONE a cog.
IN THE great wheel.
OF PATRIOTIC love.
FOR COUNTRY and
OUR SOLDIER hoys.
SUCH SCENES as these.
THEY MAKE us think.
AS FOft me. >
I WAS convinced.
THAT TO beat.
OLD KAISER Bill.
MUST be one.
AND WORK and give.
OR AS.
HOWELL lewis says.
t'NlTRD OR—
A E DEFEAT ourselves.
I THANK you.
—F. A. J.
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stigma tic lenses replaced. See Os
‘ortie
CITATION.
In United States Commissioner’s Court
in and for Cordova Precinct, Terri
tory of Alaska, in Probate. In the
Matter of the Guardianship of Gust
Lindquist, an Incompetent,
above named incompetent; and to
whomever it may concern:
A petition having been filed in the
above named court In which it is al
leged that the disability through which
the above named Gust Lindquist has
been heretofore adjudged to be !
an incompetent person, has been j
removed and alleging that there I
is no further necessity of a guardian
in the said matter and praying that I
said guardian render his final account j
and be relieved of further duties here- t
To H. A. Slater, Guardian of the
in. ,
By order of this court, you are here- ,
by required to be and appear in the i
office of the United States commis- I
sioner and ex-officio probate judge of i
Cordova Precinct, Territory of Alaska, :
on the 9th day of March, 1918, at the ;
hour of 10 a. m. on said day to show
cause, if any there be, why the prayer
of said petition should not be granted
Witness my hand and seal at Cor
dova, Alaska, the 5th day of February
1918.
EDWARD F. MEDLEY 1
United States Commissioner and ex j
officio Probate Judge.
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NOTICE OF HEARING ON FINAL
ACCOUNT.
In United States Commissioner’s Court
in and for Cordova Precinct, Terri
tory of Alaska, in Probate. In the
matter of the estate of A. B. Cooper,
deceased.
In accordance with the order of the
above named probate court issued on
the 31st day of January, 1918, notice is
hereby given that the undersigned ad
ministrator has filed his final account,
asking that the same be allowed and
approved and that the probate judge
of the above named court has set the
4th day of April, 1918, as the day for
a hearing on said rinai account, on
I which day in the office of the above
j named probate court in Cordova, Alas j
| ka> at hour of 3 p. m. any person |
I interested may appear and file ob
! jections in writing, to said final ac
j count and the allowance of the same.
I Dated at Cordova, Alas-ka, the 31st
day of January, 1918.
W. J, SHEPARD.
! Administrator of the Estate of A. B
Cooper, Deceased.
! First Publication Jan. 31, 1918.
'■ Last Publication Feb. 2S, 1918.
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HIGH COST OF DYING
APPALS BELGIANS
An organ of the high command of
Brussels recently published the follow
ing:
“Everything is going up, even what
one might think would escape the gen
eral rule: The cost of funerals. late
ly the communes paid only 100 francs
| for burying paupers. Today the
! amount has been doubled, not only on
j account of the higher price of wood.
i.»aKtawenw..
leaden plates, wax, etc., but also be
cause of the Increase In the number of
coffins needed for paupers, for burials
at the expense of the communes are
more and more numerous.”
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Bargain Notice—For sale one four
foot fireproof safe, three National cash
registers. Adress Prospector, Valdez
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Madame Lydia, the palmist, will be
found in the Currier & Mickelson
•milding on C. street. 16-tf
V rtn 1 r* /-««*» n f rrxaona frn cn
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St. Patrick’s Day I
Saturday Evening
March, 16
GIVEN BY
aclies, Altar
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= Society =■ i
Admission $1.00 |
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