The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-03-18
LOOKS GOOD FOR
NICK SACCO AND
BART. VANZETTI
(By John Nicholas BeffeD

Boston, Mass, March 10.-Ninety
days delay in the trial of Nicola
Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti la
Dor organizers, has just been grant
ed by Chief Justice John Aiken
of the Massachusetts Superior
Court. This will enable counsel for
the defense to obtain dispositions
from four material witnesses now
in Italy. The defendants were to
have been tried on March 18th in
connection with payroll robbery
at South Braintree last April.
Chief Justice Aiken granted the
delay after Attorney Fred H. Moore
had produced voluminous evidence
to show that the defense had made
every possible effort to be ready for
trial on March 7th; that it had had
a man in Italy ever since Novem-
Der searching for the four essen
tial witnesses; and that these wit
nesses had not been located until
few days ago.
No pronounced opposition to the
postponement was made by Prose
cutor Frederick c. Katzmann. He
! tldu no IOOul IOI arg uilltHI, Dul
had to admit that the dispositions
sought by the defense were material
| to a proper trial.
The effort to obtain this post
ponement brought a fine reveal
ment of the strength of the de-
Tense; it proved that Sacco and
Vanzetti had many friends in i'm
portant places, whose eyes will be
upon all the actions of the prose
/ cution.
Interest Of the Italian govern
ment was a pressing factor. Its
embassy at Washington had trans
mitted to Governor Cox, through
the United States State Department
a wish that the governor use his
/ friendly offices to insure a fan
trial for the two defendants.
Invaluable assistance in getting
the trial postponed was rendered
! by u. s. Congressman George Hol-
/ den Tinkham, who was under fire
with the Italian troops at the be-
/ ginning of the war. Equally vita
aid was given by f. NJ. Grella, pro
prietor of three daily newspapers ir
| New York-the Italian Journal, the
/ Italian Telegraph, and the Italian
Herald And Fiorella H. LaGuardia
/ president of the Board of Aldermen
in New York City, was another who
took steps to help the defense ir
+ this effort
Here in Boston, the Central La
Dor Union sent a committee to ask
/ Governor Cox to do whatever he con-
/ sistently could to protect the rights
/ Of Sacco and Vanzetti. And DR.
Doremus Scudder of the Massa-
chusetts Federation of Churches
made a similar request.
/ The forces defending Sacco anC
/ Nanzetti have just been strengthened
/ by the entrance into the case OF
Attorneys John W, Thomas F., anG
jeremiah j McAnarney, compris-
ing one Of the leading law firms OF
Boston and Quincy
Five lawyers are now acting in
behalf Of the defendants. Ever since
last August, Attorneys William j
Callahan Of Brockton and Fred II
Moore Of Los Angeles have been de-
yeloping the case of the defense
which has involved a search for
missing witnesses throughout Italy
and all the Italian centers of the
United States
Entrance Of the McAnarneys into
the life-and-death fight to free
Sacco and Vanzetti has large sig.
/ nificance Various outstanding cases
have been tried by the three broth
ers, but their practice has always
/ been conservative; they have de
Tended men accused of murder, bu
none Of their previous clients have
ever been damned ahead Of trial BY
the label of radical"
Their integrity is rock-solid. al
the McAnarneys are defending Sac
co and Vanzetti,' the people OF
Boston already are saying, al
means they are certain that these
men are Innocent"