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...Thomas J. Mooney was guilty of the offense charged against him. He was justly convicted by the jury. . . . [91;His] application for a pardon is hereby denied...
...emotional appeal to his good friend Governor Rolph for Mooney's release. To Matt Sullivan, his legal adviser and onetime chief justice of the State Supreme Court, Governor Rolph turned over the Mooney record for recommendations. After five months Mr. Sullivan advised the Governor to refuse Mooney a pardon for the following reasons...
...Governors Stephens, Richardson and Young refused to pardon Mooney. Four times the California Supreme Court reviewed the Mooney case which was once carried to the U. S. Supreme Court. President Wilson's personal intervention secured a commutation of Mooney's death sentence to life imprisonment. Three Federal investigations of the Mooney case were made, the last being by a subcommittee of the defunct Wickersham Commission...
...five-year plan was the sentence of five years in jail imposed by a Belgian court on one Fernando de Rosa who shot at but missed Italian Crown Prince Umberto when he came a-courting to Belgium (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929). Last week King Albert pardoned Shooter de Rosa who has been in jail two and a half years. Unofficially both the Belgian Court and the Italian Court announced that King Albert exercised his power of pardon by request of his son-in-law, Crown Prince Umberto. H. R. H. and his buxom Belgian wife (Princess Marie...
...murder by another man. He dug up two female witnesses who had testified against Lucas, got them to confess perjury. Now Lucas is out of jail, making quilts which Times girl employes are helping to sell. Meanwhile Editor Finnegan is personally presenting Lucas' case for full pardon...