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Show SENTENCE COMMUTED. Governor Stephens of California has commuted the sentence of Thomas J. Mooncy to life imprisonment and that should be the end of the matter. Warren War-ren K. Billings, another one of the men tried for complicity in the preparedness day horror at San Francisco, is already serving a li f 0 sentence after having been duly convicted. Tho crime was one of the most atrocious acts in tho history of the country and whoever committed it deserves death upon the scaffold. Mooney and Billings have been convicted. President Wilson requested re-quested commutation in the case of the former and Governor Stephens declared there were certain features in connection connec-tion with the case which convinced him that the extreme penalty should not be paid, so the hangman will, not he called upon to officiate. One of the MeXamaras was sent tip for life for the murder of twenty-one persons when the Los Angeles Times was blown up, and his brother was given a sentence of fourteen years. Ten lives were sacrificed sac-rificed and forty persons injured in the preparedness day explosion at San Francisco and two men have received life sentences. The MeXnmaras pleaded guilty after an attempt had been made to corrupt the jury with money supposed sup-posed to have been collected for the defense of men who claimed to be innocent in-nocent of tho wholesale murder. There have been many charges of corruption in connection wit h the prosecution of Mooney and Billings and the trial of the former has attracted almost universal univer-sal attention, even the anarchists of Russia protesting against the execution. execu-tion. We hone no more such crimes will be committed in this country, for they leave red stains upon the Star Spangled Banner. |