Mother Mooney In Life And In Death Mooney, Thomas; Mooney, Mary Hefferon Antiquarian & Scholarly

"Finish Mother Mooney's Fight to Free Her Son" Mooney, Thomas [1882-1942]. [Mooney, Mary Hefferon (d.1934)]. Mother Mooney In Life and in Death. [S.l.: S.n.], 1934. 4 pp. 10-3/4" x 8-1/2" bifolium leaflet, portrait of Mary Mooney to front. Moderate toning, horizontal fold line, small stain to gutter. $250. * Mooney was a labor leader and political activist framed as a murderer after an anarchist's bomb exploded during the San Francisco Preparedness Day parade in 1916. He was sentenced to death and a colleague, Warren Billings, to life imprisonment. Their case became a cause celebre among liberals, labor activists and defenders of civil liberties, among them Felix Frankfurter and Clarence Darrow. After 22 years of petitioning and publicity, they were released in 1939. Issued after the death of Mooney's mother in September 1934, this leaflet prints a farewell letter from Mooney to his mother and a fundraising appeal from Mooney on behalf of Upton Sinclair's candidacy for governor of California. It may have appeared in multiple issues based on other copies we have located under this title but with apparently different content. OCLC locates 3 copies of this title (San Francisco State University, Yale Law School, Michigan State University).