The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-16
LOOKED LIKE
MURDER CAR"
Witnesses Tell of Finding
Abandoned Auto Two
Days After Crimes
BULLET HOLE IN
THE RIGHT DOOR
Car Believed Used By
South Braintree, Mass,
Murderers

| Dedham, Mass, June l6.---The Nor.
folk county superior court, where Mic
cola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
are on trial for the murder of pay
master and his guard at South Brain.
tree in April, 1920, was moved on to
the street to-day. The transfer was
made to bring the court to the auto
mobile which the government alleges
is the car in which the highway men
fed from the scene of the crime.
Judge and jury, the district attor-
ney and counsel for the defense, accom-
panied by court officers and the court
stenographer, continued in the open the
formal session of the court The auto
mobile then was formally introduced
into the evidence in the case by the
state.
The defendants, from the prisoners
cage in the courtroom waived the
right TO be present at the outdoor
proceedings.
Judge Webster Thayer. who is pre-
siding at the trial, removed his judicial
gown and donned his Panama hat for
the outdoor session. Jurors and coun
sci went bsreheaded In the street
large black touring car with the top
up, and bullet hole in the right rear
door, was shown the Jurors by District
Attorney Fred Katzmann, Identifying
marks on the automobile, which the
prosecution stated would show il to be
the ear found in the woods at West
Bridgewater two days after the mur
ders, were pointed out.
The move to transfer the court into
the street followed announcement by
district Attorney katzmann that this
car, which had been in the possession
of the state police since few DAYS
after the crime would be offered as
evidence. William S. Hill, Brockton
policeman, previously had testified that
he had taken such machine from the
woods at West Bridgewater where il
was found abandoned to his police sta
ton.
The defense had objected to a state
of Hill as to whether the
automobile found in the woods was
The machine he had seen outside the
The ground for the obiec
tion was that no specific evidence had
been introduced TO show that the car
outside the courthouse was the same
~ II =.
and that furthermore there had been |
no conclusive evidence produced by the
state to connect Sacco and Nanzetti |
with the automobile in question. The |
district attorney argued that the mum
Der of the bandit car had been taken |
1t several points along the route of its |
light; that the defendants had been |
Identified as passengers in it by wit |
lesses for the state and that evidence |
lad been introduced tending to show
hat the bandit car and the machine |
,utside the courthouse were one and
be same
Judge Thayer then ruled that the
ourt was compelled to admit evidence
which tended TO prove a fact II was
he duty Of the jury he said, to deter
nine whether the evidence actually |
'roved the fact. and he declared that
e thought Hills testimony tha- the
ar outside the courthouse was the
anne one found in the woods was ad.
nissible
Mr.. katzmann then said that he
rould go bit farther and suggest thai
he judge and court stenographer 20
rith the jury and the two defendants
o view the car at which time he would
fer il in evidence.