The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 28, 1918, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, SEPT. 28, 1918 THE hey wosquat CASE TM Was There a “Frame-Up” Against Man Sentenced to Hang for Preparedness Parade Bomb Deaths? -What President’s Committee Reported | BAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. | “This is due to the dubious char.) mobile and had seen him deposit a! brought into the case when Estelle) ident Wilson's commission of} acter of the witnesses, subsequent | suit case on the sidewalk on lower | Smith, one of Fickert'’s chief wit-| tigators reported it imperative | revelations concerning them and) Market st ne fccused Oxman of offering | ¢ the case of Thomas J. Mooney,| conflict in the testimony of the same} But it was upon Frank Oxman, re-| her a “sum in five figures” to “im: Wier death sentence for complicity | witnesses, as the need for change in) tired cattle man from Oregon, that | prove” her testimony to bolster his the San Francisco bomb deaths, | testimony developed to fit new | District Attorney Fickert relied as own narraffve Should be re-opened. | theories of the prosecution or new | chief witness In fixing the element Following the Oxman disclosures, | Phis was’ urged for two stated] evidence of the defense.” of time and place vital to support his |the attorney general of California, : The framework of District Attor-| prosecution of Mooney acting on the request of Trial Judge all doubts as to) ney Fickert’s case was the conten Ox s Letters Franklin Griffin, urged the state su Soney's guilt and the method of| tion that Mooney, agitator, who had! 66 oxman, the investigating com.|Preme court to reverse the judgment if Prosecution be set at rest in Jus-|in radical papers invelghed against! 1 (2hion in its report sas snd remand the case for a new trial, | tice to the man himself, and | American preparedness prior to the | "ste Way Oxman who testified with |The supreme court, however, said it! Becond, that almost worldwide| declaration of war, had driven down | convincing detail to the presence of | had no legal power to do so | uuietude engendered by the case) Market st. with several of his asso- Mooney and Billings at the place and| Mrs. Nellie Edeau, of Oakland, of dispelied on the ground that “if| ciates in an automobile, carrying 4 | b"the time where it was essential |fered furthe mméatary on the cked it impairs the faith that/ suitcase filled with dynamite, and| fo. ‘them to have been if proof of character of witnesses against Moo: democracy protects the lowliest | had planted the fatal mechanism in| tie participation in the erime was | Ney When, in explaining a conflict of @ even the most unworthy against | the preparedness day street crowd | (4, ‘eatablished |her testimony as to seeing Mooney accusations.” where 10 people were killed and 40 id val tiguredtey cs rie “After Mooney’s conviction, there |" the day of the explosion, she sald x oe ona ‘aged Se the cent aisha a: Sine St we agg came to light letters confessedly writ: | her “astral body” had viewed the de- , Which went neith © & Pies ok carey Prosecution Story ten by Oxman prior to bis having fendant from one point, while she jooney, D e ad in e flex! ne a ee conan 1 oy “gai Terrorism to discourage militant | been called to testify, The plain im. |! sr the flesh seen him at another, eee conduct ee aeee.| preparations was assigned as the | port of these letters is an attempt by“ mile away, with the belief of a great mass | prepa: s was assiz v — oA : $ and citizens of other | Motive in this theory of the crime. |Oxman to suborn perjury Claim Distortion iaeperican sere that he| Market st, San Francisco's main {ration of vital testimon ti) ee ae ee ne are con thoroughfare, up which the parade | Was to give against Mooney. ‘The prosecution maintains that ali the victim of a conspiracy. se be tay “ | these bolsterings of the ‘frame-up” s was presently to move, was at that} “The fact is he did write letters | t “Fram@p” Points hour cleared of all traffic—a broad| Which tond completely to discredit | Charge have been singled out and hong | What are the allegations made in| yang of asphalt, with thousands of |@ny testimony he might give, and no |torted, in their intent and effect, | pp of this widespread conten-| eves trained on it in expectancy. testimony from Oxman, in the Without affecting the mass of evi- that there was a “frameup”| “Down this cleared street, under |Hght of these letters, would receive | dence upon which Mooney was con: Thomas Mooney; that he) the gaze of anyone who knew him, | ¢redence necessary to lead to convic: ieee a Suenos to dea ae 4 unfairly tried and convicted on) violating every traffic regulation of |tion, In fact, afier the exposure of resident iison’s commission, ured evidence? the day, rode Mooney in an auto, |Oxman, the district attorney did not however, found sufficient justifica- says the prosecution. The defense call him, tho available, as a witness on, after an exhaustive investiga retorts that it is. incredible and |in the trial of Mrs. Mooney. tion st the casos to urgently recom: _ " mend a new trial. against all erime psychology, while| “WHEN OXMAN WAS DISCRED. : ne i. ving the chief figures | traffic officers of that day maintain ITED, THE VERDICT AGAINST] A"d It le upon their report that groundwork in the case. | that it couldn't have been done, |MOONEY WAS DISCREDITEL Setisee Met, hincnaiie ot Gentes character of witnesses At any rate, that was the founda-| Oxman was subsequently tried for | Wuested Gov. Stephens, of Califor | hose testimony the con | tion of the case, and several wit: | subornation of perjury and acquitted, | #2 pave the way 6 was secured, and the | nesses were found who asserted that Bribery Charged enff et in their testimony. y e Srivelly attempt. charees a (To Be Contina: Tilatbes of perjury end of they had seen Mooney in the auto-| Bribery attem harges were ” od) bribery to sustain the me eezzemme| LOOK AT HINDENBURG'S LINE RUSSIAN RICH BY FRANK J. TAYLOR | where piled-up steel rails blocked the | (Special to The Star by N : ¥. (Uhited Press Correspondent) | tanks for a while. The tanks hastily STOCKHOLM, Sept. . White] WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY | backed away and smashed into the | Russia fights its revolts and Rus: WEST OF VERDUN, Sept. 28.—The | barbed wire fields, tearing great run Suen By ppd ph ogre oi Americans advanced so fast when | Ways. a ae, ONG wee voles j they charged over the top in the Put Huns to Work | Zapan ts making a sortatie out mi the| Champagne drive that they did not} ppp jebb and flow in the value of the even pause to examine the concrete Hindenburg line, which was suppos- ed to be impregnable and had proved a barrier to the allies for four years. Near Varennes (15 miles west and slightly north of Verdun) I walked across No Man's Land over two bar- | ren kilometers (a mile and a quarter) of solid French and German wires. | Bere tea Gecectnat ee et tote be high at Harbin when it is cheap kept up. ee erase tie becriecs | At Vladivostok or Shanghal, and vice The Germans, in retreating behind | months aro beg pe gy kg th aig ow ry the Hindenburg bulwarks, some time | From the Varennes road, concrete Japanese or Russian. city. ' in the past, had blown up a bridge | mulwarks extend downward into the By means of his organization this on the road to Varennes, leaving @n| iowjands of the Argonne forest east: | shrewd Russian tinually buy enormous hole more than 100 feet | ca ays geen Mtge ward, up the slopes of the Vaquois|in a cheap market and sells in a wide and 60 feet deep, Around this! nin, under which the boches are re-|dear one. His aystern 19 60 simple doushboys and tanks pushed, while | ported to have more than 40 kilome-| that it is a wonder it is confined Ragone, motor trucks and artillery | ters (25 miles) of underground pase-|to him. It requires af immense followed on aoe which the enemy | ageways. The infantry flanked this| initial capital, however, and a per- uilt with mé&ic Te wats barraged, shell-swept peak. fect knowledge of exchange ra‘ Pc ag vote pt are a ng The captured orders showed the} so, while Russian business men |German command had ordered this| are wondering whether they ought barbed wire, quickly tossed aside! peak held at all costs, but the infan to keep thelr capital in rubles or | from the road, I reached the Hinden-| try passed it with practically no re-| exchange it for Chinese yen, this |burg trenches. They are protected | sistance. Moppers-up, assisted by man goes on placidly aceumulatin, with solid concrete walls, more than | tanks, easily rounded up the German| fortune. ‘The allied expedition yd jtwo feet thick at most points, the | defenders from dug é | ; jefenders from dugouts. ‘The dough: | siberia may put a crimp in. he Passageway averaging three feett in! joys advanced quickly into Varennes operation eae width and eight feet in depth. There | thru the little hamlet of Bourevillers, are numerous machine gun positions, | which had been razed completely by strong points, crests and dugouts at | our artillery. STRIKE. frequent intervals, : ‘, The boches apparently had not Tanks Rald, Nests held this line except as a reserve po-| After the infantry’s first encoun sition, as barriers of tangled wire | tet’ with German machine gunners blocked the passageway at several {at Varennes, baby tanks invaded the | points, especially place, blowing up boche nests with j A New Ownership A New Management A New Policy —The— | Post-Intelligencer Seattle’s Oldest Newspaper EUIVAUAAUUA AAA infantry jumped into these cleared spaces and won their way | thru. Engineers later began di Russian ruble, the standard coin, He has built up a ruble buying) and selling organization that is said }mantling the rails. They needed) to pring him an income of a million more help. Spotting the first batch | rubles a month, a sum equal in nor- of prisoners, an officer shouted to |mal times to $500,000. 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