Show GIRL CONFESSES CO Mom MOONEY Y SAN FRANCISCO March 20 United Press Press-Estelle Smith whose testimony is said to have sent Warren K and Thom as Mooney to prison for life today admitted the story she told on the witness stand during the preparedness prepared prepared- ness parade bombing trial was false In an affidavit made public today toda to- to da day F sho ho declared her bel identification ot of n Billings as the hurler of the I bomb was not true and that she I Ineer never neer was sure about the matter I I Tho said to have been I made voluntarily cast a reflection on former District Attorney Charles M. M who has been accused by those seeking pardons for BillIngs Bill BUl- Ings and Mooney looney of at framing the pair A def desire lre for fair aIr play prompted Miss lIss Smith In issuing today's statement state state- ment she sho said I FrIends ot of Billings and Mooney have ha long Jong claimed that aU all evidence I Continued on page paje 5 GIRL CONFESSES MOONEY Continued from page L presented at the bombing trial has been and Ul t the men were of wartime hysteria The prepare preparedness nes ne's day parade Was vas held in 10 San Francisco In JulY 1916 As the humanity ked wa down Ute the street a fell havIn hay hay- In illg been thrown from an office building along the lIne of march Ten fen persons were The conviction of Billings s for a time on hIs Identification as being the man Who entered entered- a dental dental den den- tal office re Miss Smith wa employed 1 Her lIeI po cation of Ilfin hm was tIld iii hi hithe tile the prosecutions prosecution's onI case an and is said 10 have paved the way for conviction tion of Mooney INFLUENCED MOONEY TRIAL Miss was not called to tel tea oon but her testimony testimony mony a against Billings Is said to have had Its Influence In the Mooney Mooney Moo Moo- ney trial because the connection the two men had as labor leaders and agitators Tile The claims that morphine morphine mor- mor phine was administered to hiss Smith during the trIal and that beca because be- be ca cause use of us UIl of drugs sh she was not normal 1 at the tIme Ume |