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Since the trial, State's Witness Oxman is proved to have been at Woodland, Calif, at the time of the explosion he said he saw. State's Witness MacDonald, whose testimony was garbled to say the least, went to Trenton, N. J., became a waiter there. In 1921 he signed an affidavit that he had seen the bombing but not Mooney & Billings, that he only identified them when told to by the police. After the trial, the presiding judge, Frank Griffin, declared the conviction of Mooney was "one of the dirtiest jobs ever put over." The foreman of the convicting...
...Harlem, N. Y., Thomas Allen, 45, was eating in a coffee pot.* The waiter took his catsup away. Eater Allen went for the waiter with a pocket knife. John Christor, proprietor, shot angry Allen dead...
...antics seem dictated less by fantasy than by pathology, but the consciousness that in actual life any one of his little jokes would be reason enough for his being shot or locked up, stimulates rather than hinders the humor. Best shots: an unnamed player as a frightened waiter who is ordered by his employer to make a noise like a cat when addressing a patron who is supposed to be crazy; Haines selling bonds to a spinster...
...Haines's antics seem dictated less by fantasy than by pathology, but the consciousness that in actual life any one of his little jokes would be reason enough for his being shot or locked up, stimulates rather than hinders the humor. Best shots: an unnamed player as a frightened waiter who is ordered by his employer to make a noise like a cat when addressing a patron who is supposed to be crazy; Haines selling bonds to a spinster...
...then whacking his right across; he caught Bill in the air coming off the ropes as a trapshooter catches a clay pigeon; he reached down, took hold of the rope, pulled this way and that for quick turns; he pressed both gloves against his own stomach like a waiter making a bow, then flashed them up in furious rataplans to Black Bill's stomach and head. He won the championship. The crowd that cheered the decision went out comparing him to famed tiny fighters of the past-Midget Smith, Abe Attell, little Jack Sharkey-saying that once more...