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Governor Young reported last week that he and the Supreme Court did not credit MacDonald's affidavit that he had perjured himself. He said he believed MacDonald signed it out of pique at not reaping the huge rewards. The Governor's statement, however, made no attempt to close further action in the case, gave this encouragement: "Should John MacDonald . . . appear before [the Supreme Court] for the purpose of proving [his] repudiations as trustworthy ... it may be only just and right to consider . . . such witnesses in the case of Billings, just as I should desire to do in the case...
Immediately last week the countless partisans Mooney has attracted since his imprisonment began a nationwide search for State's Witness MacDonald. The Scripps-Howard San Francisco News offered $500 for his apprehension, advertised: "He is 5 ft. 7 in. tall. . . . His hair ... is probably gray now and thinner. His eyes are black. He had a thin face and a slight body...
Result of this old-style manhunt: discovery of MacDonald, now a telephone operator in a Baltimore apartment house. A Baltimore couple recognized the Scripps-Howard picture as their onetime boarder, "Mr. Mac," who night after night sleeplessly paced the floor. He was arrested, held at a police station "for investigation, suspected of being wanted by the California authorities." Then he summoned a lawyer, issued a statement: "I never saw Mooney until . . . told by an officer that this was [he]. . . . My testimony in the various cases was untrue and false. I desire to undo the wrong done by me in sending...
Lawyer Frank P. Walsh, onetime joint chairman of the War Labor Board and volunteer counsel for Mooney & Billings, last week rushed to Baltimore and prepared to take Witness MacDonald to California, despite the danger that MacDonald will be indicted for his confessed perjury there...
Just two votes kept James Ramsay MacDonald from motoring over to Buckingham Palace to offer his resignation to King George last week. By a curious paradox the result of his narrow escape left him more firmly in power than he had been for a month. Several Liberals, darkly muttering "dirty practice" and "not cricket," announced their intention of voting regularly with the Laborites, at least for the immediate future...