Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-06-30
VANzETT||kN NO.
PLYMOUTH DAY
DOUBLE KILLING
Defence Witnesses
Testify in Trial of
Two Italians
Cloth Peddler Remembers Dis
tinctly of Selling Accused
Piece of Goods in That Town
at Noon Hour on April 10
Crime Committed at 3 P. M.
Woman Supports Story

Dedham, Mass, June 29--Bartolo-
meo Vanzetti, on trial with Nicola
Sacco for a double murder at South
Braintree, last year, was in North
Plymouth buying piece of blue cloth
for suit of clothes at noon on the
day of the crime, defense witnesses
testified today. The murder was COM
mitted at P. NJ.
A states witness previously testi-
fled that he saw Vanzetti shortly be-
fore ten A NJ. alight at East Brain
tree, a mile from the murder scene
from a morning South Shore train
This train left Plymouth at S:14 o.
clock
Joseph Rosen, a cloth peddler, said
he saw EanZetti with his fish push
cart at the corner of Castle and Main
streets. North Plymouth about noon
April Is, 1920, the date of the South
zetti some goods about two months
before and knew him, he explained.
Rosen testified that on April Is. he
sold Nanzetti q piece Of blue cloth
with a hole in it. Before buying it,
Rosen said, Vanzetti took him to the
home of Mrs. Alfontina Brini where
he asked her to examine it. Mrs.
Brini's daughter was present
The peddler said he spent the night
of April Is at Whitmanfi near South
Rraintrne, where he first heard of
the murder.
Upon Nanzetti's arrest he readily
remembered selling him goods, he
said
Mrs. Brini testified that she exam
called upon her with Rosen. There
was a hole or two in it, she said She
was positive about the date and cir
cun'stances, and timed it between
1870 and noon. She said she also
saw Vanzetti earlier that morning
delivering fish to neighbor. Eanzet-
ii had boarded at her house four or
five years ago. she added, and was an
intimate friend Of her husband.
Late in the day mysterious stran-
ger previously introduced to the
court in. person and by photographs
took the witness stand. lie was
nearly a double for Eanzetti in gem
eral appearance. When under cross
examination he explained that he had
come merely to hear the t0stimony
and that defense counsel had "snot
ted him in the audience and had his
nicturn taken, there was general
laughter
The stranger said he was Joseph
Scavitto of Somerville and hal
known Sacco slightly several wears
aga. He said Jeremiah 7. McAnar-
rev. counsel for Nanzetti. had seen
him first in court and asked him to
have his photograph taken.
The hat in the picture shown the
jury was like Vanzetti's and in reply
to District ATTORNEY Katzmann. Sea
vito said he had been unable to find
his own h"adgear when asked to
have the picture made. He rabbed
the one nearest to him in the de-
Tense counsers room at the court
house. When he got back his hat
was waiting for him. On cross exam
ination he was made to pose for tho
jury and don his own hat. He denied
thai he had been at any of tie plac-
es where states witnesses had testi-
lied to having seen Vanzetti.
Firearms experts for the defense
concluded their testimony today as
serting their belief that the bullet
which killed one of the murdered men
was not fired from the automatic
pistol found on Sacco when he was
arrested.