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...years since, U. S. opinion and Tom Mooney have changed considerably. Time, and doubt about his guilt, have made Mooney, to a majority of the U. S. (as revealed by a Gallup Poll last January), seem the victim of an outrageous miscarriage of justice. In San Quentin jail. Convict Mooney has come to see himself clearly in the role of the nation's No. 1 martyr. In his 21-year fight to prove his innocence, Tom Mooney has thrice emerged from San Quentin to tell his story of the bombing to California courts in San Francisco. Last week...
Into the loudspeaker when it was working again Convict Mooney poured the sorry tale that has become his lifework. (In his San Quentin cell the walls are lined with 20 volumes of legal records in his case.) Rambling back to his childhood, he explained how a beating when he played hookey from school "made Tom Mooney rebel"; how his activities as an agitator caused San Francisco's Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to take "possession of the District Attorney's Office"; how when the Preparedness Day bomb exploded he and his wife were elsewhere. Said he: "Tom Mooney...
...Wyoming, North Carolina and California- even kill their murderers with gas instead of electricity. Five of the country's lethal chambers have been made by the Eaton Metal Products Co. of Denver, which has a ghastly set of patents. Last week the fifth was sent off to San Quentin prison in California...
...Quentin," which completes the bill, is a picture less worthy of revival
...panda, named Diana after Quentin Young's athletic wife, was two months old, weighed 13 pounds when captured by native farmers in the Samulin Mountains. Arriving in Hankow in the midst of a Japanese air raid, Mrs. Harkness said that she had caught Diana "so that Su Lin might have a real sister to play with." and that she hopes to catch a third, male specimen, so that Su Lin and Diana will have more than a playmate...