Tom Mooney, the American labour leader, who, it was announced on Jan. 3, 1939, is to be freed on January 8, after 22 years’ imprisonment. Mooney, known as the world’s most famous prisoner, was arrested in 1916 following a bomb outrage during a pro-war parade in San Francisco. He was sentenced to death, though reprieved later. Witnesses who testified at his trial have since admitted that their evidence was perjured. (AP Photo)

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