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Show lift JURY TB MBE'Til-lff" AGAIRST MODNEY . SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 24 The San Francisco county grand jury will begin a searching inquiry tomorrow night into alleged irregular conditions pertaining to the administration of justice by the office of District Attorney At-torney Charles M. Fickert as made public last Friday by John B. Dens-more, Dens-more, director general of the federal employment bureau, in- a voluminous report addressed to Secretary of Labor La-bor William B. Wilson. Dcnsmore has been subponaed by the grand jury. Densniore'a report, although published, publish-ed, hefe fully, has not yet been officially offi-cially given out by Secretary Wilson. It detailed at great length conversations conversa-tions that were alleged to have been held between the district attorney, his assistants and various other persons who were interested in the outcome of certain pending criminal cases. These conversations, tho report asserted, as-serted, were recorded by means of tapped wires in Fickert's office and the secret installation of a voice recording instrument. Some 'of tho conversations, the report re-port said, concerned the Thomas J. Mooney case. Mooney is under sen-tenco sen-tenco of death for murder in connection connec-tion with the Preparedness day bomb 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' ' 1 ' i i I i I rrn explosion here in July, 1916. when ten lives were lost. Other conversations purported to show that Fickort's activities activ-ities in the Mooney prosecution -wore not actuated by a desiro to see exact justice done to tho accused man; that Fickert, assisted by other persons deliberately de-liberately "framed" and "manufactured" "manufactur-ed" evidence against Mooney, and that in other respects he has conducted his office In a manner not conducive to the public good. A part of the Densmore report dealt with the alleged acceptance of a large sum of money by a former justice of the California supremo court in return for a favorable decision in an Important Import-ant will contest which involved millions mil-lions of dollars. General denials of tho allegations have been made both by District Attorney Fickert and the former for-mer justice. |