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Show siOOGE DElES GETTING BRIBE Henshaw Also Repudiates Connection With Any Mooney "Frame-up." Condemned Labor Leader Declares the Disclosure Speaks for Itself. SAX FRANCISCO, Nov. 23. Frederick W. Henshaw, former Justice of the California Cali-fornia nupremo court, Issued a signed statement to tho Associated Press today, denying charges that ho received a bribe of $410,000 In the famous will case of the James O. Fair estate, and denying any connection with an alleged "frame-up" In Jjf. Kim Francisco preparedness day Jr ooney bomb cases, as set forth In a report to William 11. YVllHOn, secretary i of labor, published her over the signature signa-ture of John It. Densmore, director general gen-eral of employment of the labor depart- inent. ludgo Henshaw's statement before witnesses wit-nesses follows: "To the Associated Tress: "The Fair case was decided aomo 'vventy years ago. Years after Us decision : wus re-elected to tho supremo bench and served oleven of the twelve years' term, resigning under no compulsion or agroomont with Mr. Olir or anybody else. My resignation was dictated upon ' purely personal grounds. No Interest in Mooney. "The charges against me In the report of Tjenamoro. as special Investigator of : the department of labor, are twofold: "First, that T joined with Flckert In a Mooney 'frame-up'; "Second, that I was capable of doing tills infamous thing, and I had corruptly taken a bribe of $-110,000 In the case mentioned. men-tioned. "I was not and am not Interested In Mooney, saving as any citizen is interested inter-ested In seeing exact justice In the punishment pun-ishment of a most wanton, vicious and unprovoked crime. "Mr. Fickert, from time to time, consulted con-sulted me, always at his own instance, never at my own, to tell me his difilcul-tles difilcul-tles In following Information which would lead to complete disclosures of Mooney's guilt. , "I did not refuse to see him at his request and should have felt ashamed to have refused. But I was an aid to the bureau of naval intelligence, andodvlsed with that bureau over manv anarchistic, I. VV. w. and other evil activities. Not Infrequently Flckert would advise of Information, In-formation, quite apart from the Mooney case, bearing on these matters. Never Saw Witness. i "t never saw an nctual or prospective T-ness in any of tho bomb cases. ' whs never in the employ of any big . .j orations charged with hounding ' Jf to death, and I challenge the ing out of one word In all the Dens- i report which even remotely tends nnect mo with any improper prac-,1111011 prac-,1111011 less with being a participant ,'rame-up. I never wrote a Flckert r even saw one until it was printed xulated. I charges of bribery against me are -immed up in tho Densmore report: , ..a supreme court's final decision as - -t.'it of the rehearing brought about t hrougli the instrumentality of Judge Henshaw was in favor of the heirs, Henshaw Hen-shaw having changed his vote to favor the petitioners. Payment of $-100,000 was then made by a series of checks of $50.-oojl $50.-oojl each, druwn by S. CI. Murphy, president presi-dent of the First National bank In favor fa-vor of Dlngeo, those payments covering a period of some weeks. Dlngoe avers, that In part these Bums were given by him direct to Judge Henshaw; that other installments woro conveyed to Henshaw by Moffltt.' j "The charge of bribery Is utterly and unqualifiedly false. If, us would appear from the statement, Mr. Dlngeo did receive re-ceive money from the Fair heirs, I never knew of it, never received a dollar of it. "This charge came first to my knowledge knowl-edge as part of a statement charging similar sim-ilar crimes and wrongs upon many other of Mr. Dlngee's former friends, men of great prominence in California. Money and an unscrupulous desire for revenge could have been the only actuating motives mo-tives In making them, 1 shall not make public the names of these men and so 1 expose them to the same unmerited ma-lignancy. ma-lignancy. "I can but express my amazement that a government official investigator should thus give currency to so infamous an attack, at-tack, without affording me the slightest opportunity either for explanation or do-niai." do-niai." Reiterates Charges. The charges referred to hv Judge Henshaw Hen-shaw were made In a statement developed devel-oped by Mr. Fremont Older, editor of the San Francisco Call, and printed yesterday. yester-day. Mr. Older today, in a signed statement, state-ment, printed in the Call, reiterated these' . charges. ! William J. Dingee, mentioned In the statement, is a capitalist of Oakland. I Cal. He formerly was president of the Contra Costa Water company, serving the east side of Man Francisco bay. which was merged later with the People's Water Wa-ter company. He is prominent as a real estate promoter, and had. large land hold-lugs hold-lugs in Alameda and San Mateo counties. The Mofitt referred to In the Densmore Dens-more report was Frank J. Moffitt, a newspaper man of Oakland, Cal., who died more than ton years ago. The signed statement given bv Judge Henshaw to the .Associated Press was written by him In long-hand in his office of-fice and in the presence of his brother, W. O. Henshaw, head of a large cement company, and two Associated Press men. Proposed intercession to dflivernor Stephens Ste-phens and Mayor James Rolph on the part of San Francisco labor in behalf of Thomas J. Mooney, and promised grand Jury action formed the aftermath today of a published report bearing the signature signa-ture of John B. Densmore. federal director di-rector of employment, that certain questionable ques-tionable activities were discovered in connection with the Mooney and other cases. This report, printed yesterday, made allegations involving many officials. offi-cials. s Mooney's Statement. Thomas J. Mooney, under a sentence of death in tho preparedness day bomb case, today issued a statement through Mrs. Mooney, discussing the report. It was an investigation of the Mooney case that brought out revelations of alleged crookedness crook-edness in other cases, unconnected with the bomb trials, but tending to involve the same set of persons. Mooney's statement follows: "The Densmore disclosure speaks for Itself. Just think what a similar Investigation In-vestigation would have disclosed If ft was inaugurated in the early stages of the frame-up! "These corrupt forces cover the state of California and labor can expect no justice from these financial bandits operating under the guise of officialdom unless Ihe , federal government strips them of every vestige of authority and power. Otherwise Other-wise our government is a mockery and deserves de-serves the contempt of the world. Their business is 'fixing.' 'fixing' Juries for murderers, mur-derers, wealthy 'degenerates, 'fences' and all the saturnalia of the underworld which is the basis of this power prostituted to murder workingmen who may be obnoxious obnox-ious to the open-shop movement. "The United States government should take complete control of the prosecution of the individuals exposed by Mr. Densmore Dens-more under tho espionage act and that c, nf fha TTnUffl Ktnt-oo nnnof iti,H which makes it a felonv to deprive any citizen of his rights without due process of law. "This astounding disclosure more than justifies the charges wo have so repeatedly repeat-edly made for tho past few years that we woro tho victims of a chamber of commerce com-merce conspiracy. "But I am still under sentence of death and the date of iny murder is Friday, December 13. Signed) "TOM MOONEY." Stenographer Retires. 1 Toward Vernon, stenographer of the county grand jury, retired from his position posi-tion today pending an investigation of the entiro affair outlined in 1 lie putative Pensmoro report by that body. Vernon's name was mentioned in the document. William H. McCarthy, foreman of the grand jury, said today lie would call the body together next Monday night tn begin be-gin the investigation. District Attorney Charles M- Flckert will not be present at the grand jury, McCarthy said, because tils name and several of those oi'hls assistants as-sistants had been mentioned in the report. re-port. Statements regarding alleged conversations conversa-tions between Kuward A. Cutilia and himself him-self referred to in tho report are "deliberate "delib-erate falsehoods," District Attorney Fiek-I Fiek-I ert s:iid In a statement tonight to the ! Associated Tress. Cunha is an assistant 1 to Fickert and assisted tiie latter in ' prosecuting the bomb cases. The statement said: j "Either he (referring to Densmore" or pec Die under his employ got into my room ' and purloined a number or" papers, be-causo be-causo I know when the room was broken i into and the papers taken. They were documents exposing the criminality of 1 certain persons in connection with the ; preparedness day parade."' , The reversal by the California fu-' fu-' promo court of Its original decision in ; the content of the will of the late Scn-1 Scn-1 a tor James C. Fair of Nevada, involving involv-ing millions of dollars, resulted from t he reversal of opinion by F. VY. Henshaw. member of the supreme court for more J a score of 'c;irs- This is tho case referred to in .ludgc Henshaw's denial of bribery rhar'rs. Wtit-n he dlfd in 1 sr4. &'rnainr Fair left a "trust will" providing for llt'c Incomes for his tiireo children, Cliarles F:iir. Mrs. Theresa, illermann) Oelriehs and Mrs. Virginia (William K. Vanflerhilt. and for distribution of his property after tlieir de;i I hs cnnallv to thpir heirs mid those nf his hiother and sister. Hpnntnr Fair's children broimht a contest con-test a-iunst. the trust fealnrrs nf ihe will, a skins that the entire estalo be lfft to them. The decision of jiivM'Ur judo ("italics "W. Slack in lyJo was in their favnr. The executors and trustees under tho will thru appealed to the stain supreme court, where, in in02, they obtained a reversal of the superior court judirinen t. Former Just ice Henshaw concurred in this decision. The contestants soon thereafter there-after obtained a rehearing, following which ti:1 supreme court reversed Its former for-mer decision aiid upheld the decree of tiie superior court In favor of I he children. chil-dren. JlcTishaw coticuned in (he. hitter decision, Ids concurrence civ ins the nneessarv four justices for the reversal of the first supreme court action in the" matter. I Irnsha w resigned from Ihe supreme court about six months ;il'o to enler private pri-vate practice. He would have comrleted his second twelve- ear term January 1, |