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Show STEVE00llilE8S i usm mmm Says Woman Obtained Base of Explosive Prior to San Francisco Tragedy. i SAN FRANCISCO, June 10. Mrs. Rena j Jlooney, on trial for murder in connec- j tlcn with a bomb explosion, July 22. j which killed ten persons, was Identified ' today by Samuel Samuels, a stevedore, as the woman To whom he Kave about eleven pounds uf nitre ejeven days prior, to the explosion. In his opening statement to the jury. Assistant Dhstt irt Attorney Iouls Fer- 1 rai l asserted that t he state would offer evidence Intended to show direct connection con-nection between the nitre, which he said was one of the bases of dynamite, three hooks on dynamite- alleged to have been found in Mrs. Muoney's apartment, and the explosion. On direct examination Samuels testified: testi-fied: "I was KoiiiK to lunch at noon. This woman (indicating Mrs. Mooney) arrived in a jftney bus on the pier where 'the steamer was unloading nitre. She asked me for a littie nitre. She said she wanted it to experiment with. I said f had no sack and she opened her handbag and took out a small sack. I hurried back to the vessel and got her about eleven p pounds. She handed me twenty cents and v said : 'Go and pet a drink,' Jumped into the machine and drove off." On cross-examination, by Edwin Mc-Kensie, Mc-Kensie, ot' counsel for Mrs. Mooney. Samuels admitted that "three or four women" had at different times asked him for nitre. He could not remember their names, he said. He said that two months after the explosion he identified Mrs. 1 Mooney in the county jail. |