The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-09
WITNESSES TELL
OF SHOOTING
But Cannot Identify Sac
co and Vanzetti AS
Gangsters
WHO ATTACKED
PAYMASTER
In Dedham Court Witness
es Declare Bandits
Were Swarthy

Dedhsm Mass, June 9,--The at
tempt by the government to identify
Nicola and Bartholomeo Vanzetti a.
two of the bandits. who killed pay.
master and his guard at South Brain.
tree in April, 1920, was the subject OF
early testimony at the trial of the
men for murder to day. One of the
men who rode in the robbers automo-
bile was an Italian, it was testified
Mark Edward Corrigan a shoe cut
ter employed by Slater and Morrill,
company, said he saw f. A. Parmenter,
the paymaster for the company, and
Alessandro Berardelli his guard, leave
the Office building for the factory with
the payroll just before the shooting.
He heard the shots, he testified, and
looking out of third story window
he saw black seven passenger auto
mobile speeding away from the fac
tory. He saw man in the front seat
with a pistol in his hand. This man,
he testified, looked like foreigner of
Italian type.
Under cross examination, Corrigan
said he had seen Sacco and Vanzetti
after they were arrested, but was un-
able to identify either as the man he
saw in the car. Attempts Of the pros
ecution to find out if Corrigan could
say definitely that either Sacco or
Vanzetti was not the man he saw
failed when the defense objected.
James +. Bostock, a machinist en-
ployed at the Slater and Morrill, fac
tory, testified as an eye witness Of the
shooting.
Bostock said he had Just spoken to |
Parmenter and started away from him |
down the street when he heard the |
shot. Swinging around he saw two |
men shooting Parmenter and Berar- |
deli. A man standing not five feet |
from Berardelli fired four or five times,
three times at Berardelli and once or
twice at Bostock. A second man fired |
1t Parmenter twice as he stood near
Berardelli and twice more as he start
ID to run across the street. Bostock |
'aid that one of the highwaymen beck
,ned down the street, where he had
'een al automobile waiting. A third
nan helped throw the payroll boxes
which Parmenter and Berardelli had
,een carrying into this auto as ii came
Up the street. This machine was
,laek car with the top up and man
vas firing a pistol from the front end
II it as it approached the railroad
rossing.
Bostock testified that there we're
oward the crossing.
Bostock said the bandits appeared to
e foreigners, some Of them Italians
he men he saw shooting were smooth
aced and swarthy. They were of me
ium build and wore dark clothes. He
rs-- saw them before the shooting !
aaning on a fence together near the \
Gene of the murder. Immediately aft ,
r the shooting he saw the man who 9
ad attacked Berardelli. reload his 4.
.eapon while waiting for the automo- Z
lie to come up the road. He could not |;
~ that he had seen any of the ban
It's since.
Louis l. Wade, shoe worker in the
lctory of the Slater & Morrill, Co. tes- 7
fying as an eye witness, said he saw !,
he man who fired at Berardelli He :
fought he saw the same man a month \
ter at the Brockton police station he r
lid, and out of courtroom full of L
sople to-day he picked Sacco as re- n
mbling the bandit Almost immedi- !,
ely afterwards Wade qualified his !,
atement by saying, Il am not sure y
,w / am in a little doubt The rea :,
N for this is that saw another man N
Iree or four weeks ago who I thought :,
as the bandit" =
Cross examination Of the witness had =
IT been begun when recess was taken
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