The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1921-12-23

nav editors have transformed the court
So that it looks like military camp
nre,,ared for battle. lsther than a hail
81 Justice The presiding judge, al
t,oyoh he has denied the fake stories
81 threats against his life, is heavily
a,oed. Among those VINO were
Searched for hidden weapons as they
enteref. the room We're many promln-
e,t New Englandecs, among them
J,l,r Goldman. chairman Of the local
Civil Liberties Union, Mrs. Elizabeth
Glcndcwer Evans and Mrs. William
lanes. the widow C the great psy-.
chc!ogist and philosopher.
LAWYERS BERATE COURi
1t is in such an atmosphere that
the appeal for new trial was made
hv attorneys Fred H. Moore and J.
J. McAnarney, on the ground thats
the evidence introduced against tne,r
clients did not warrant the verdict.
They berated the court for its refusal
Il, grant separate trials for thu two
Defendants, the evidence against them
being of a different nature. MT. NC
Anarpey asserted that the jury was
undoubtedly influenced by the halo OF
t.. ror thrown around the prisoners.
Mr.. Moore analysed in detail the tes-s
timory against the men, showing how
fi,nsy and untenaole it is:
WORLD STANDS AGHASF
"Do YOU wonder, lie declared, ",sEy
thu whole world stands agha St at the
We, oct, when jury accepts the UNI
substantial declaration of such Wit
Tesses as Splaine, Dolbear, Mcs. An
cr.ws. and brushes aside. scor3, If ,s.
Liable witnesses on he other Size
In Re Mary Eva Splaine
Miss Eva Splaine was one OF the
prosecutions star witnesses against
Sacco. whom she claimed to identify.
She had only gotten a glimpse OF
sneedinp automobile from her want
age point in an upper story WlnooW;
the car was covered over; yet she tes-
tilted to such detail as the musculari-
tv of his arm. In preliminary ex-
animation soon after the crime she
had declared that she could not make
a positive identification. What hap
pened in the interval? Perhaps the
answer may be found in the circum-
stance that during the preliminary
hearing Miss Splaine was out Of work,
but before the final trial she was Civ
en- a lob by the same firm which later
sacked" at least three workers for
having given testimony favorable to
the defense.
IN RE DOLBEAR
Dolbear is the man who tries to
identify Vanzetti. The only token by
which he claims to remember him, IS
that he had seen car with a tough
looking bunch" in it. Other identifi-
cation witnesses had described the
bandits as "well-dressed" and IRE
spectable-looking." Mr.. McAnarney
openly charged that Dolbear was a
MRS. ANDREWS, WHO TAINTED
Mrs. Andrews is the woman who
tainted in the witness box when ques-
tons bearing upon her character
were put to her. Her Identification
was refuted by her own friends and
.neighbors, who came into court and
testified that she had stated to them
that she could not make an identifi-
cation, but that the police were pes
tering her.
COUNSEL JOLTS JUDGE
A dramatic incident of the hearing
was when counsel for defense fatty
refused to come to the judges bench
for low-toned conference such as
he is in the habit of holding.
eff your Honor please" Mr.. Moore
declared, there is no reason why
every phase of these proceedings
should not go on in open court. The
two men in the cage are not lay fig.
ure.s They are men of exceptions
intelligence and should listen to al
the questions bearing upon their fate.
JUDGE DISTURBED
Judge Webster Thayer was vlsibly
disturbed, and made no furt,ic. calls
for bench sessions that day.
PRESS FARRICATES
In statement to Boston press the
Sacco-Vanzetti Defense COMMITTEES
condemned the newspaper for theil
malicious fabrications" attributinl
imaginary plots and threats to sympa:
thizers of the two convicted labor or
ganizers. One of the yellowest pages
IN American journalism is being writ
ten today. The news of legitimate
and outspoken protests against tn.
unfair verdict is either suppressed o.
hidden in corner, while lies and rum
0rs intended to embarrass the defens'
are featured in big headlines. Th'
climax of these ibels was reaches
with the story of "three-day reig1
of terror" planned by the friends o
Sacco and Vanzetti. On the rnofnin,
when the hearing began, the Bosto1
Globe carried sensational lie abou
Italians from New York, armed, an
disguised in American army uniforms
marching upon Boston, presumably i
behalf Of the two imperiled men. Th
committees s. atement reads in part:
DIME NOVEL LIES PUBLISHED
"The dime-novel rumors ard
lies that have been swallowed by
the newspapers in Boston and
elsewhere, seem to US TO have
been splanted'-as you reporters
say-by those who want % en-
barrass and discredit the entire
Iy legal and peaceable national
defense. We understand that the
newspapers in Boston, especially
certain VIGOROUSLY sensational;st