Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-06-04 | Page 1 | Affidavit May Free Mooney

rl j A Receives Aid T TA Ii V g y 4 THOMAS MOONEY I AFFIDAVIT MAY MA f fR FREE M MOONEY ONn G r 1 Agents B Bombed m d S. S F. F Parade in 1916 Said Writer CHICAGO June June 4 AP APA AP-A A voice from the dead spoke today to save Tom Mooney radical labor leader from the life sentence he is servin serving serving ing in the San Quentin California penitentiary It was an affidavit bearing the signature of Alfr Alfred d H. H Spink a sports writer writer who died last week It set forth that the day parade bombing bombing- In San FrancIsco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco July 22 1916 1016 was plotted and executed not by Mooney who was found guilty of it it but by agents of the German government The federation of labor by resolution resolution resolution reso reso- lution yesterday voted to seek Mooney's release using the new document as the basis for tor action The thread on which the Spink affidavit spins the suggestion of absolution for Mooney winds s back to the antebellum da days s 's when Mr Ir and Mrs Spink made their home In Oakland Cal Mrs Spink who was wasa a German became friendly with Mr and Mrs Powell Mertz neighbors who the affidavit said were wera re reputedly reputedly re- re German agents On the day of the preparedness parade in San Francisco Mrs Spink mentioned to her neighbors that she planned to cross the bay for the celebration Mrs Airs Mertz warned her not to the affidavit set forth telling her that something awful was going to happen Something awful did happen eleven persons being being- killed Spink planned to notify the authorities of what had been said by Mrs Mertz according to tho the affidavit but Jut was persuaded not notto to by his wife wh whose se health was poor and who feared the consequence of any disclosures they tiley might make Spink kept the Information to himself until the death of his wife wifeL a L year ago He then confided to toone toone toone one person person John John Fitzpatrick pros pre Ident of the Chicago Labor federaL federa- federa but tion-but L made promise the things he had revealed would not be made public until Spink himself himself himself him him- self should die His Ills death last week weel released the affidavit and led the federation yesterday to renew ef efforts efforts ef- ef forts to obtain a pardon for tor Mooney