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 1O.-Ninety
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 7th in
connection with a 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 18th; that it had had
man in Italy ever since Novem-
Der searching for the four essen
| tial witnesses; and that these wit
nesses had not been located until
a few days ago.
No pronounced opposition to the
/ pOstponement was made by Prose
cutor Frederick G. Katzmann. He
| had no room for argument, but
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 pressing factor. Its
embassy at Washington had trans
/ mitted to Governor Cox, through
the United States State Department.
wish that the governor use his
( friendly offices to insure a fair
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 vital
aid was given by Z. NJ. Grella, pro
prietor of three daily newspapers in
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 in
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 and
Nanzetti have just been strengthened
by the entrance into the case of
Attorneys John w, Thomas F., and
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 H.
Moore Of Los Angeles have been de-
velOping 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, but
none of their previous clients have
ever been damned ahead of trial by
the label of radical"
Their integrity is rock-solid. eff
the McAnarneys are defending Sac
co and Vanzetti," the people of
Boston already are saying, at
means they are certain that these
men are innocent