FALSE EVIDENCE
VICTIMS IN PRISON. San Francisco, July 30. John MacDonald, a grey-haired waiter, has confessed that the main evidence on which Thomas Mooney and Warren Billings wore sentenced to imprisonment for life at San Francisco in 1916 for the “Preparedness Day” bomb outrage was false. “The whole pack of lies was packed into my head,” Macdonald said to-day to a special Supreme Court Bench, indicating that the packing was done by Charles Flickert, district attorney. It is expected that as the result of the inquiry Mooney and Billings wilt I soon bo released. > trough ■ his Jears. the self-eon ffssed ' ~ j ‘ y »*-«T
perjurer persisted that lie identified photographs of Billings and Mooney a few days after the outrage when those photos had already been indicated to him by a police sergeant. He declared again and again that the district attorney had coached him in the evidence lie gave before the grand jury.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1930, Page 5
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