MOTHER'S DEVOTION
MRS. MARY MOONEY DEAD
EFFORT TO WIN SON'S
FREEDOM
SAN FRANCISCO, September 3.
The death has occurred of Mrs. Mary Mooney, aged So, mother of Tom Mooney, who is serving a life sentence in the San Quentin penitentiary for the Preparedness Day bombing in 1916.
For years she had been an untiring worker' in aa effort to win her son's freedom.
Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings were convicted of murder as the result of the explosion of a bomb placed in a .suitcase on a street while San Franciscans were gathering for a Preparedness Day parado'on July 22, 1!)16. Ten persons were killed and 40 wounded. Mooney was first sentenced to death, and, nearly two years later, on the intervention of President Roosevelt, the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Before the explosion he was a radical labour leader. The case lias been reviewed on a number of occasions since, Mooney lodging two applications for pardon.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1934, Page 9
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