AMERICA’S “DREYFUS”
PARDON VOTED I'o TOM MOONEY SACRAMENTO, March 12. Toni Mooney, the “Dreyfus” of America, and the world’s most famous prisoner, has been pardoned af:e>-twenty-one years’ imprisonment. The Californian State Assembly at Sacramento to-day voted a Legislative Pardon. Mooney, a former Labour leader, was sentenced to life imprisonment ever twenty years ago on a bombing charge following the San. Francisco “Preparedness Day” outrage of July 1916. Mr. Webb, the Attorney-General, has advised the Legislature has no power to grant a pardon to Mooney The Californian Legislature resolution must go to the Senate. If it passes that body it will be recommended to the State Governor, who alone possesses the power to pardon.—British United Press and Reuter and Exchange. Mooney was sentenced to death for th© outrage which caused the death or ten. people and injured forty others. Later the sentence was commuted’ to life imprisonment.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 April 1938, Page 4
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