“ALL LIES”
“LIFERS’ ’ MAY GO' FREE,
PERJURER'S -STORY-; / . SAN FRANCISCO. July 31. It is expected that as-4he''rbsiui'6 of an inquiry, by a special. Supnbind Court Bench, ’ ,Thomas._-;Mdones Warren Billings, who .Were sentenced in 1916 to imprispnment;-for''luebfp*i* participation in' the ■ Prepdmlnfess Day bomb outrage;' will soon bo -relea soil. ' ' ' c : • >f John Macdonald; a • gf ey-halred wait* er, has confessed that his evidence, on which, mainly, the- men ‘were ed.‘was'false. < Through his tears the self-confess-ed perjurer'persisted that he identified pßotos of Billings .'and Mooney'a? fbw days after the outrage when these photos hAdkalready‘ ogled to him by; a 'police \ sergeant. Ho declared ‘ fiAaih - ' and ? -Again -that tho District Attorney, 'Gharles'fFick'ort. liad coached -him-in th6"evidence ho ga vo ; before The grand Ijuty’. * . '
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11280, 9 August 1930, Page 7
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