Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third time Tom Mooney passed out of San Quentin Prison last week, was ferried under guard across the bay to San Francisco, where he and Warren K. Billings were convicted of bombing the local Preparedness Day parade in 1916, with a loss of ten lives. So often has the militant U. S. Labor movement thrust his case into court in a consistently unsuccessful effort to exonerate it and him, free him from a life sentence, that today Tom Mooney has come to think of himself as an important public personage in his own right. Now the Mooney lawyers...
...expected no redress from the California Court, he said, but had great hopes for a final victory before the U. S. Supreme Court. Twenty pounds heavier than when he left San Francisco, he was tanned, seemed fully alert despite his 52 years and nearly a generation behind bars. His "prison heart," a nervous cardio-vascular affliction, did not appear to bother him, but in the general excitement he could not keep back the tears. "I'll be all right," wept Tom Mooney. "It's the shock, coming back here?back to San Francisco where it all happened...
...which the referee might hear, a move which, according to Mooney, invited the State to fight him with material ranging from the Haymarket Riots to last year's General Strike in San Francisco. The defense won a play when the Court agreed to have Convict Billings brought from Folsom Prison to San Francisco, so that he will face his one-time co-agitator when he gives his testimony. The pair have split because Billings will accept parole. Mooney will...
...gutter on Henry Street." Son Marano explained that his father had threatened to cut his mother's head off, eat her heart. Father Marano. whose mother was found beheaded in Italy some years ago and whose brother is wanted for murdering his wife & son. had just returned from prison after serving a 15-year sentence for murdering a saloonkeeper's wife...
...Holloway Prison police doctors examined with interest last week Alexandra Maud Edwarda Caernarvon Stuart, a small female with hair falling in ringlets down her back, clad in a child's dress reaching barely to her knees...