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Show BILLINGS ALSO IS ENTITLED TO NEW TRIAL, MOONEY SAYS ' SAX FKAXOJSCO, Jan. 5. Thomas J. Mooney. under death sentence in the eountv jail here, said when toll that a new trial had been recommended for him by President Wilson's mediation coinmissiont f I am entitled to a new trial so is Warren K. Billir.es. I would be acquitted ac-quitted on a new trial iu quickly as Weinberg was .acquitted." Bi'.linjzs is under life sentence. Weinberg Wein-berg was acquitted recently after twen-tv twen-tv minutes' deliberation bv a jurv. Both wore tried in connection wi'h the preparedness pre-paredness day bomb explosion. Charle3" M." Fi'kert, district attorney who tried these men, said he believed he con i convict Mooney astain. "If President Wilson wishes to ' assume as-sume the responsibility of turning loose a murderer like Mooney. the responsi-bilitv responsi-bilitv is his." he said. "I had no opportunity op-portunity to so before thp commission at their' hearings here, and I met Mr. Felix Frankfurter for probably five minutes when 1 turned over to him the records of the graud jury and tho transcripts tran-scripts cf proceeding? in the case.'' j i |