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Show New Evidence Uncovered In Mooney's Fight For Liberty LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 20 (U.R) The Los Angeles Record said today to-day in a copyright story that. Carl Von Moltke, a German, claiming to be a nephew of the famous field marshal Von Moltke of the Franco-Prussian Franco-Prussian war claimed to have documentary docu-mentary proof that Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings did not bomb the San Francisco Preparedness Prepared-ness day parade on July 22, 1916. Von Moltke yesterday was convicted con-victed of receiving stolen property and breaking into an automobile plant. He is in jail here planning to appeal. The newspaper said that Von Moltke, while working in New York offices of the German intelligence intelli-gence department before the United Unit-ed States entered the World -war, came into possession of coded documents docu-ments dealing with wartime bomb plots. Von Moltke's story to the news paper said that he came to New York in 1916, "as a special representative repre-sentative of Zimmerman, whom he knew only as the head of operations." opera-tions." He said he was put to work in an office at 60 Wall street coding and decoding messages. The suite, according to the story in the Record, Rec-ord, was leased by Wolf Von Ingel and by A. Paul Koenig. Von Moltke assertcdly told newspapers news-papers of "conferences" attended by Von Ingel, Koenig, Mark Eisinger, Lowenstein, Fcrderick Hinsch alias Grantor, and himself at which Pacific coast "sabotage" programs were discussed. According to the Record, Von Moltke said he had documents to substantiate his statement in "a steel box" in Brooklyn. The newspaper news-paper said Von Moltke expressed himself as willing to aid supporters of Mooney and Billings, in California Cali-fornia prisons for the bombing. |