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...seven justices of the Supreme Court of California last week descended from their high judicial bench to hear John MacDonald recant testimony that had sent Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings, radical labor agitators, to prison for life. Sitting without robes, not as a court but as an advisory pardon board, the justices commenced what was virtually and peculiarly a retrial of the bombing of San Francisco's Preparedness Day parade in 1916. Billings, as a two-time felon, could be pardoned only with the Supreme Court's approval...
Throughout the ordeal, however, MacDonald stuck to the main outline of his recantation. He claimed that police Captain Charles Goff had forced his identification of Billings and Mooney in the city prison, that District Attorney Fickert had put "a whole pack of lies" into his head which he repeated to the trial juries. Said he: "Fickert told me if I would stand by the identification of Billings and Mooney I'd get the biggest slice of the reward." Asked Justice Preston mockingly: "You swore this at the time God was judging you to be a liar" MacDonald only wept...
...said, had been circularized with pamphlets telling children to become "class soldiers for a class war." Some of his principals exhibited pamphlets found on their pupils which read: "Down with the schools, the flag, the principals!" They told how scholars played hookey on May Day, played "escape from prison" in place of hide-&-seek. Viewed with alarm was a 15-year-old caught on the subway with books by Lenin, Scott Nearing and Harvard's Professor Felix Frankfurter...
When Peter learns that the uncle has spread lying tales about his parents, he kills the uncle, is tried, convicted, sentenced to death. Later the sentence is commuted to life imprisonment. The long years in prison are made livable by the dreams in which Mimsey visits him. One night she fails to come; Mimsey is dead. Peter goes berserk, attacks a warden, is committed to an insane asylum. Before he dies Mimsey comes to him again in the guise of an old woman. He meets Death happily...
...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 Mooney to prison, regardless of personal consequences." He repeated his story of being kept and entertained by the San Francisco police at a hotel prior to testifying...