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Show Wins Release iOM .MOOsr-V Hapea to Free) Billings I MOONEY FREED. BYFULLPARDON World-Wide Crusade by ' Labor Succeeds rL . .. i . ' 1 SACRAMENTO, CaJ, Jaa. T 01 Labor's world-wide oroaade ta free Tom Mooney triumphed today. The gray-haired prisoner, now 54, was granted a full and free pardon by Governor Culbert L. Oiaoa aa a packed aaaembly room broke Into cheers. Five days after Olson waa Inaugurated Inau-gurated aa California's first Democratic Demo-cratic governor In 40 years, Olson arose at tha cone hist on af a brief hearing and aaid: 1 have signed and I now hand ta you, Tom Mooney, this final and unconditional pardon. I now Instruct In-struct Warden (Court) Smith to now release you to the freedom which I expect you to exercise with the high ideals I have tried to indicate." The governor had long professed belief that Mooney waa Innocent of complicity in the 1(14 San Francisco Fran-cisco Preparedneea day bombing which killed 10 persons and Injured In-jured 40. Mooney'e death sentence was changed ta Ufa imprisonment soon after he went to prison 23 years ago. Today, San Quentin prisoner 11921 became private eitixen Tom Mooney. Hundreda of persons from all parts of the state came here for the hearing, conducted In the slate capitoL Mooney. riding In a ear with Warden Bmith of San Quentin and tha prisoner's attorney, George T. Davis of San Francisco, left San Quentin at a. m. today after shaking shak-ing hands with guard friends, permitting per-mitting Innumerable pictures and waving good-by to the 300 by-standees. by-standees. Mooney, quite unruffled and smiling, mounted the speakers' roe- ICoallniMd on Pas Two) (Column rival Mooney Freed By Full Pardon (Coetloued Trem Page one) trum while tha thunderous ovation was still at its height. As he shook hand with th governor gov-ernor and Lieutenant Governor Ellis E. Psttsrson there were cries of "Speech." Mooney, still smiling, stood quietly and waited for the noise to subside. "I am not unmindful of tha significance sig-nificance of thia occasion," ha began. be-gan. His next words, still somewhat some-what Indistinct because of tha movsment and murmur of the crowd, were In praiae of ths present state Democratic administration. Turning to Governor Olson, he said, "I intend to dedicate my life to remove the shame from the stats of California by working for the release -of my coaufferer Warren K. Billings." |