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...Francisco physician) at left 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...
...Senators Charles Linza McNary of Oregon; Carl Trumbull Hayden of Arizona, ex-1900; President Almon Edward Roth of Rotary International; Writer Robert Luther Duffus of the New York Times; Vice President Paul Downing of Pacific Gas & Electric Co.; Editor Bruce Bliven of The New Republic; District Attorney Charles Marron Fickert who helped send Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings to jail...
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...
...Fickert coldly watched his onetime prime witness across the chamber. Justice Preston asked MacDonald: "Do you still feel in Fickert's clutches?" Replied MacDonald pitifully: "I do. I'm in a daze right...
...witness declared that he had heard MacDonald describe the bombing and the two men with the suitcase two hours after the explosion. The hearing unexpectedly broadened out when Miss Estelle Smith, onetime dental nurse, drug addict and witness against Billings at his trial, revised her testimony, charged that Prosecutor Fickert had pressed her into perjury. Incidentally she set up an alibi for Billings by declaring he was in her office, a mile from the explosion scene, just a few minutes before the bomb went off. She swore he carried a suitcase in which was, not bombs, but a supply...