Show MOONEY MADE EVADE BOMB CLAIM FRISCO FRUSCO POLICE POUCE isa f vre Ar dW I at 4 e L L' L t t ti Men and women who figure in the San Francisco bomb plot investigation Left to io right at nt top Warren K Billings and Mrs Rena Mooney Below left to o right Thomas Mooney Money and Israel Weinberg A special grand jury has returned indictments against these four our persons charging murder The Tha police theory is that Billings carried the suit caso case containing the tie bomb Weinberg is a jitney driver The Tho police say he lie drove tho conspirators to the scene of the explosion Miss Estelle Smith cetter who identified Billings as the man she saw with a suit case shortly before the explosion and Mrs Mooney as the woman who joined him on the str street et The police consider her evidence important in connection with other secret information I they have worked up in the case SAN FRANCISCO CISCO Aug 5 The The net of evi evidence Jence which the police are weaving weaving ing lug about the five lIve persons charged with murder In connection with the suit case dynamiting tragedy is being drawn tighter hourly according to state statements of Deputy District Attorney Jams Jamm Drennan Brennan tonight T TILe discovery discover that Thomas Mooney one of the prisoners requested Warren Warren War War- ren BillIngs ren Billings another of the accused to del deliver delter er a camera to him the following follow follow- in ing S day is considered most important B Brennan Bennan believes the word camera was simply a code word for dynamite dynamite dynamite dyna mite and that and that when Billings delivered the requested sted box he actually gave Mooney l the infernal machine which exploded with the loss of ot nine lives The only other important development development development develop develop- ment of or the day was the announcement announcement announcement announce announce- ment of the police that a piece of car rail had been found in the home of ot Edward Mooney now charged with murder and the expression of belief bellet that the rail was us used d as an anvil in inthE inthe inthe the manufacture of the bomb l' l Fear ear hasn't gripped young Billings I the thin light haired boy the police are watching day and night in his cell Or if he sees visions of the end the the ultimate end end of of all aU this questioning and fears he keeps his fear tear to him him- self Wh Why dont don't you tell where you were the afternoon of the preparedness parade parade parade pa pa- rade and for the week before BillIngs Billings Billings Bil Bil- lings was aske asked Give me enough money and Ill I'll tell you all right he replied with a smile Well Vell how much do you think you ought to have was the suggestion Just ho he answered promptly and In answer to the question why he thought the Information was worth so much he said Because there are a whole lot of people around here trying hard to find out Just that But you people are a cheap lot When I get out of this I ought to be able ble to earn a lot telling my story That Idea seemed to amuse him but brought back to the question of where he was on Saturday afternoon July 22 he said There Ther are a number of people who can tell that when the time comes I I haye have an alibi I When hen asked how he Jie Ie thought it was that the police had had arrested sted the parI particular particular par par- I people now in custody h he answered an an- I I 1 suppose th they y picked them up the same way War they got got me And how was that he was asked Wh Why they y took tool me on my previous record That's all they have got Billings denied that he knew Weinberg Weinberg Wein Vein berg and when he was asked if he hadn't hadn't- ridden with Weinberg to the thin Han Bruno job he smiled a n. moment I and then said What was was the San Sari Bruno Erwin job lIe He professed ignorance of the blowing blowing blowing blow blow- ing up of one of the towers of the United Railroads' Railroads power line on June 10 and said he ho was not on Market street on the afternoon when Mooney attempted to call a strike of the car car- men You were on the Russian river at that time he was asked and reI reNo re- re I No I had got back then But come out to the Richmond station tonight I and you can take a picture of me eating eating eat eat- ing a good thick porterhouse steak |