OCR Text |
Show oo ( JUDGE DUNNE SENDSTELEBR1 Praises Poindexter for Stand Taken in the Thomas Mooney Case. WASHINGTON, April 24 After an aftermath of the senate's recent discussion dis-cussion of Thomas Mooney conviction : in the San Francisco bomb plot, a telegram tele-gram from Frank H. Dunne, judge of the San Francisco superior court in which another of the defendants was tried, was received today by Senator Poindexter of Washington and read to the senate praising the Washington senator's defense of the fairness of Mooney's trial. Judge Dunne criticized as bias the federal labor commission's report of the Mooney case declaring that Professor Pro-fessor Felix Frankfurter who was Secretary Sec-retary Wilson s assistant on the committee, com-mittee, had been not properly investl-gated investl-gated the facts. "Don't let the report of Frankfurter tool you." Judge Dunne's telegram said. "It was made with false reasoning, without investigation investi-gation and in total disregard of the rights of California." Professor Frankfurter. Judge Dunne said, did not interview him and many other court officers connected with the bomb plot case. ' Only radicals, anarchists, near-anarchists and those misled by them V.... ..J . 1 T.-J I utiv v viewo omer man ) oui t juue Dunne wired. Mooney was not convicted, Judge Dunne said, until large sums of money was raised and a pitiless campaign started to break down by publicity and terrorism all witnesses for the state. ' About $200,000 was raised for Mooney's Moon-ey's defense, the judge asserted. Regarding the attack upon the evidence evi-dence of the witness Oxraaii, Judge Dunn said the defendant, Billings who was tried in his court and convicted "before Oxman was ever heard of." |