FALSE REPORT
PARDONING OF MOONEY NEW YORK, Jan. 3. A false report, apparently first published in London, was that Tom Mooney had been pardoned. The Governor of California promised last November that he would probably, free Mooney. However, he has not yet done so. The Mooney case has been before the American Courts ever since Mooney and Thomas K. Billings were convicted of murder as a result of the explosion of a bomb which had been placed in a suitcase on the street while San Franciscans were preparing for a Preparedness Day parade on July 22, 1916. Ten persons were killed and forty injured. Mooney and Billings were radical labour leaders. Billings was sentenced to life imprisonment and Mooney to death for murder in the first degree.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 4, 6 January 1939, Page 7
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127FALSE REPORT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 4, 6 January 1939, Page 7
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