MAY BE RELEASED
MEN WRONGLY GAOLED
SAN FRANCISCO, 30th July. It is expected that as tho result of an inquiry by a special (Supreme Court Bench, Thomas Mooney and Warren Billings, who were sentenced in 1010 to imprisonment for life for participation in the Preparedness Day bomb outrage, 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-confessed perjurer persisted that he identified photographs of Billings aud Mooney a few days after the out-rage when those photos had already been indicated to him by a police sergeant. He declared again and again that tho District Attorney, Charles Fickcrt, had coached him in the evidence he gave before the grand jury.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 9
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128MAY BE RELEASED Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 9
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