MRS. MARY MOONEY DEAD
BOMB OUTRAGE RECALLED. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3. The death has occurred of Atrs. Alary Mooney, aged 85, 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 an effort to win her son’s freedom. Tom Alopney 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 parade on July 22. 1916. Ten persons were killed and forty wounded. Alooncy 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 has been reviewed on a number of occasions since, Alooncy lodging two applications for pardon.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 210, 5 September 1934, Page 7
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