1932 · Sacramento
by [Mooney, Tom]
Sacramento: California State Printing Office, 1932. 93, [1 blank] pp. Original printed title wrappers, stitched as issued. A rubberstamp in blank top margin of front wrapper. Else Fine.
Mooney was convicted in 1916 of detonating a bomb that killed ten people in a large crowd which had gathered for a Preparedness Day Parade on San Francisco's Market Street. The sentence, death by hanging, was commuted in 1918 to life in prison, partly as the result of widespread allegations that Mooney had been framed, evidence withheld, and other serious miscarriages of justice committed. Mooney was imprisoned at San Quentin. In December 1931 he petitioned for a Pardon. This document is Governor Rolph's denial, with a thorough description of the State's case against Mooney, and reasons for the Governor's decision. The case continued for seven more years. See the California Supreme Court's lengthy review of the complicated proceedings, from the beginning to 1937. In Re Mooney, 10 Cal. 2d 1 [1937].
"Known worldwide as the scapegoat of anti-unionists, Thomas Joseph Mooney was falsely accused for bombing the Preparedness Day Parade in San Francisco on July 16, 1916. Mooney, a Socialist union activist and organizer, had previously been involved in an ugly strike against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. This put him under immediate suspicion for the bombing even though it was later proved that he was no where near the actual bomb site during the parade. Mooney's wife, Rena, Warren Billings, Israel Weinberg, and Edward Nolan were also tried for the bombing but only Billings and Mooney were convicted. Mooney received the death sentence in 1917 and spent the next twenty-two years in prison despite outrage from around the world and evidence that many of the witnesses who testified against him had committed perjury, especially F.C. Oxman." ["Guide to the Thomas J. Mooney Collection, 1917-1918, accessed at Online Archive of California.]
OCLC notes a number of institutional locations. (Inventory #: 34965)
Mooney was convicted in 1916 of detonating a bomb that killed ten people in a large crowd which had gathered for a Preparedness Day Parade on San Francisco's Market Street. The sentence, death by hanging, was commuted in 1918 to life in prison, partly as the result of widespread allegations that Mooney had been framed, evidence withheld, and other serious miscarriages of justice committed. Mooney was imprisoned at San Quentin. In December 1931 he petitioned for a Pardon. This document is Governor Rolph's denial, with a thorough description of the State's case against Mooney, and reasons for the Governor's decision. The case continued for seven more years. See the California Supreme Court's lengthy review of the complicated proceedings, from the beginning to 1937. In Re Mooney, 10 Cal. 2d 1 [1937].
"Known worldwide as the scapegoat of anti-unionists, Thomas Joseph Mooney was falsely accused for bombing the Preparedness Day Parade in San Francisco on July 16, 1916. Mooney, a Socialist union activist and organizer, had previously been involved in an ugly strike against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. This put him under immediate suspicion for the bombing even though it was later proved that he was no where near the actual bomb site during the parade. Mooney's wife, Rena, Warren Billings, Israel Weinberg, and Edward Nolan were also tried for the bombing but only Billings and Mooney were convicted. Mooney received the death sentence in 1917 and spent the next twenty-two years in prison despite outrage from around the world and evidence that many of the witnesses who testified against him had committed perjury, especially F.C. Oxman." ["Guide to the Thomas J. Mooney Collection, 1917-1918, accessed at Online Archive of California.]
OCLC notes a number of institutional locations. (Inventory #: 34965)