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Show PLEADS FOR LMOII ! 1 i Franklin A. Griffin,' j Who Condemned Man to Death, Requests the I Governor for Pardon 1 - i .seoelatd Press.. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 21. A letter from Judjff Franklin A. Griffin, Vho tried and sen-tenced sen-tenced Thomas J. Mooney, to Governor Stephens asking that Mooney be given a new trial because of evidences of a fraud conspiracy agalnat him. was made public hers today. The jeiter was written November Novem-ber IS. Commenting on his previous plea to I. H. Webb, attorney general of the state, that Mooney be retried. Judge Griffin said in the letter: l believed then that simpls jus tics and fsir play demanded such -action and from that position I have Ptevsr foe a moment receded. On the son trsry, thst stsnd hss been by Ister developments sjrsstly strengthened." In the letter Judge Griffin charae- |