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Show FICKERT NOT OPPOSING TRIAL SAN FRANCISCO, April 30. Denying Deny-ing statements attributed to District Attorney Charles M Fickert, Attorney George S. Arnold today made public a letter from him to Governor William Will-iam D. Stephens stating that President Presi-dent Wilson's mediation commission which recommended a new trial for Thomas J. Mooney, conferred for an hour with Fickert and offered the prosecution opportunity to reply to briefs submitted to the ypiumission by "the d 'f Statements credited to Fickert were to the effect that, he had been given no opportunity to appear before the commission during its investigation of Mooney's conviction of murder in connection con-nection with the 1916 Preparedness parade bomb explosion here. Arnold, I a partner of William Dt-nman. lurm. r chairman of the United States shipping ship-ping board, did some work hero lor ' the mediation commission. |