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During San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day Parade, a bomb exploded on Market Street, killed ten people, wounded 40 others. Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings, labor agitators, were convicted of the crime, went to jail for life. Their trials were later shown to have been honeycombed with perjured evidence against them. Judge & jury recommended their pardon. The case became interwoven with State politics. Governor after California Governor was implored by large sections of organized Labor, the Press and the Pulpit to set justice to rights by releasing Mooney & Billings. Though 15 years of prison life have greyed them...
...MOTHER MOONEY...
...half did a shift that delighted Coach Walter Camp. Jackson Eli Reynolds (now president of First National Bank of the City of New York) played the other half while William Harrelson (now vice president of Bank of America) barked signals at quarter. Charles Marron Fickert (prosecutor in the famed Mooney-Billings case) and Joel Yancy Field (now ranching in Texas) as guards held an impregnable line. The "treasurer" of that 1894 team was a young fellow named "Bert" Hoover who managed to clear expenses with enough over to buy the team new uniforms. This week the same "Bert" Hoover invited...
Warren K, Billings, imprisoned since he and Thomas Mooney were convicted of bombing San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day parade, announced that henceforth his defense activities would be independent of Mooney's. Complained he: "I have become a mere nonentity in the case...
...James D. Mooney...