He exhibited similar Courage in handling the
> appeals for pardons for Tom Mooney, serving a life
' sentence in San Quentin penitentiary for the San
Francisco Preparedness Day bombing outrage which
occurred while Rolph was Mayor of that city. He
had instituted a policy of leniency toward certain
5 classes of convicts. He saved from the gallows men
j who, he was convinced, killed without premeditation
■ or because of the “unwritten law.” Women prisoners
• who were expectant mothers were released and many
paroled men and women were restored to citizen
ship. Yet the effort to get a pardon for Mooney,
organized on a national scale and with the aid of
Mayor "Jimmy" Walker enlisted, was firmly rejected.
He had studied the case himself and was convinced
of Mooney's guilt of a premeditated attempt at
wholesale slaughter*
I For this as in the San Jose lynchings. he was
widely condemned. As in the latter case, he held
firm to his course and never expressed any regret
at i*. It was this courage, his magnetic personality
and his ability to keep in close contact with the
people of the State that made it possible to say
I that “everybody liked Jim.”
I "Dillinger may not be dead, but he probable i
knows he is as good as dead."—Cincinnati Enquirer, i
However, it is his obituary and not he that's in
the morgue.
One of the strange things about these kidnapers
in California, they never seem to need any lawyer.
It Pays to Advertise.
