Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-04-02 | Page 3 | Mooney's Pardon up before Governor

MOONEYE PARDON UP BEFORE GOVERNOR Requested on Ground of Irregular Acts Which Led to His Conviction. SAN FRANCISCO, April 1. Thomas J. Mooney today applied to Governor Stephens for a pardon from the sentence of death Imposed upon him on a murder charge which grew out of a bomb explosion, ex-plosion, which killed ten persons here In 1916. The action followed the return by the state supreme court of a remittitur on a decision in which the court upheld the decision of the lower court which sentence sen-tence 1 Mooney to hang, a nd denied him a new trial. The original date for Mooney's execution expired while hi appeal ap-peal to the supremo court was pending. The case will he in the hands of Governor Gov-ernor Stephens after the second date of execution is set. The pardon was requested on the pround that irregular acts had figured in the proceedings which led to Mooney's conviction and the application quoted a statement to that eficct by Superior J u-; co Franklin A. Griffin, "who presided. President Wilson telegraphed Governor Stephens last week asking executive clemency for Mooney.