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Show WILSON'S LIFE j THREATENED Cunha Will Prove Plotted Rev-1 olution Against Govern- j ment. San Francisco, Jan. 18. -Thai President Wilson's life was threatened threat-ened by an anarchistic oi .mih. atiou I known as ;he "Blauters," of which j Thomas J. Mooney, on trial hen for i murder, was a leader, will be shown by evidence to be presented in , Mooney's trial, Assistant District at-jtornr at-jtornr Rdward A Cunha declared Co-j day in t pi , or court in bis i ;en- "I- wl1 ' said Mr. C Sa, "that thi ..en plotted revo n j against th. government l will pro.e that they said in an edition of The Blast, the weathercock in the White House had better watch out. Sup-i Sup-i presslon of the voice of discontent leade to assassination." Beginning his rase in courl, Cunha outlined the history ot the bomb plosion here last July, in which ten ; persons lost Iheir lives and in which Mooney h:.d a pan "I will show Mooney encouraged the use of bombs," he said. 'I will j prove that prior to Jul, 1910, I Mooney Alexander Berkman, Miss M. E. Fitzgerald and others entered into a conspiracy to brine ibom ;,n uprising agatns: propertv ovnris, the confiscation of private property and the destruction of government, and that they called themselves 'the blasters' and publicly announced In The Blast' the objects of their con-1 apiracy I will conned Mooney with this conspiracy by his own writing and by articles he wrote in "The Blast ' I will show that they planned to create a prejudice against and to! betray the American Federation ot Labor. I will how that before the j parade Mooney declared 'prepared- j ness must 'be thrown back in the teeth of Its advocates ' Mooney de-Clared de-Clared that if the government had a large armv their revolution would be ninn.i! in lln liiiil Officer Raided by District Attorney. "The Blast." an anarchistic publication, pub-lication, is printed in San Francisco. Berkman, its editor, at last accounts, was in New York City raising funds to aid in Mooney's defense. Miss Fitzgerald is assistant editor. The office of "The Blast" was raided re j cently by the district attorne The first witness called by the prosecution. Dr. W. S Stafford, autopsy au-topsy surgeon for the coroner who examined the bodies of the victims after the explosion, declared under cross examinat ion bj Attorney W. Bourke Cockran. leading Mooney's i defense, that "in his opinion the bomb could not have exploded from the sidewalk because many of the j victims received wounds in the head " i He declared later that he did not mean exactly what he said and he asked Cunha to be allowed to take, the stand tomorrow and clear up his' statement. The prosecution contends that the bomb was contained in a suitcase and that Billings and Mooney loft it on the sidewalk. Cunha, in his address to the jury', said the paragraphs in "The Blast" on which ho baaed his charges i I conspiracy against the president were as follows: Government Suppresses Inflammatory Publications- The federal government has suppressed sup-pressed "the Alarm of Chicago and The Revolt of New York. We are not oing to sa it ia an outrage Why should the government not commit com-mit outrages" Invasion of personal llbertyi suppression oi inw 'i'u, silencing of non conformists and pro-testants, pro-testants, shooting down ol rebellious workers all this is the very essence of government. "We don't complain. We understand under-stand Wilson's position. Ho must do his master's bidding. This is the 'bane policy, but we must warn the weathercock in the White House that it may not prove safe. Suppression Suppres-sion of the voice of discontent leads to assassination Vide Russia!" Warren K. Billings, whom the prosecution pros-ecution charges aided Mooney in plac inn the bombs, has already ben sen h need td life imprisonment. |
