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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Radicals Retried | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

Witness MacDonald, wandering waiter, had been found in Baltimore and sent to California by the Mooney-Billings defense to admit his perjury after the Supreme Court refused last month to recommend a pardon for Billings (TIME, July 21). In 1916 he told trial juries that he had seen Billings and Mooney with a suitcase, presumably containing the bomb, at the street corner where occurred the explosion that killed ten persons. Last week before the Supreme Justices he swore that he had seen neither of them there, that, in fact, he was not sure if he had really witnessed the bombing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Radicals Retried | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

...apparent purpose was to make MacDonald out a habitual liar who was perjuring himself now no less than he may have done at the Billings-Mooney trials. Time and again Preston would harshly ask: "Was that a lie?" "Weren't you lying when you said that?" When MacDonald became hopelessly rattled, Preston scornfully inquired: "You've told five different stories at five different times. How is the court to know which one to believe?" Meekly replied MacDonald: "You'll have to use your own judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Radicals Retried | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

...couple recognized the Scripps-Howard picture as their onetime boarder, "Mr. Mac," who night after night sleeplessly paced the floor. He was arrested, held at a police station "for investigation, suspected of being 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: California's Witness | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

Lawyer Frank P. Walsh, onetime joint chairman of the War Labor Board and volunteer counsel for Mooney & Billings, last week rushed to Baltimore and prepared to take Witness MacDonald to California, despite the danger that MacDonald will be indicted for his confessed perjury there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: California's Witness | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

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