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Show 1 Moomey Is Given : '- A Reprieve Until' :' December 13, 1918 j 1 LOS ANGELES, July 27 Governor Stephens of California today decided ; I to grant Thomas J. Mooney a reprieve 1 , JNII which will operate as a stay of exe- M cution until December 13, 1918. II 111 Tho governor announced that ho ' , lj took this action that all persons might i be assured tho fullest consideration , PI would be given the case and judicial , lJI branches of California. '' , j HI Governor Stephens' formal an- ', J I nuoncemont follows: j I ' "I have decided to grant a reprieve j j III to Thomas J. Mooney which will op- ! ,' fl I erato as a stiy of oxecutlon until Do- i j H comber 13, 191S. , tl "It is tme that the Mooney case still ' J ! Is In the supreme court of California JjllS but I tike this action at this time in . , 11 J order that all persons in this state and I j Nl elsewhere throughout the United ' N States may bo assured that the fullest j J fl consideration will bo given to this case J ' j I by the executive and the judicial , jljjl branches of tho government of Callfor- J jl ilia. 1 "The Mooney case has boon in the j IID courts of this state for more than two. ijnjl years. The records and briefs are j in j voluminous. I will require all of tho j j time between now and the 'thirteenth j 1 day of December to give to this matter , that careful consideration which jus- J i Ij tlce both to Thomas J. Mooney and j the people demands shall bo given. , Al III! (Signed) 1 "William D. Stephens, Governor." ! J M SAN FRANCISCO, July' 27. "Tho ' f 1 action of Governor Stephens should B meet with the approval or every right , j J thinking person," said Maxwell Mc- 8 ,Nutt, Mooney's counsel, upon being 3 Informed that this client had been granted a reprieve. : I |