The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-01-28
STARTLING
DEVELOPMENT
In the SaccO- Vanzetti Case At
tracing Public Attention.
(By JOHN NICHOLAS BEFFEL

(By JOHN NICHOLAS BEFFEL)
BOSTON, Mass, Jan. 22.-With
the arrest of Mrs. Angelina De
Falco, charged with offering to
guarantee an acquittal in the Sacco-
Vanzetti case for a large sum of
money, that case has hit the front
pages of the Boston newspapers
with a bang. All four Sunday
papers-the Herald, Post, Globe and
dvertiser-reviewed at length the
new arrest and the events leading
up to it.
Each paper pointed out the inter
national significance of the prose-
cution against these two labor or
ganizers, which has impelled the
Italian government to order an eX-
haustive investigation of the facts
behind it. Both the Herald and Post
ran stories under two column heads,
and next day the Post carried an
other extended account of develop
ments. Then the Record appeared
with a detailed history of the Sacco-
Vanzetti case, citing its connection
with the torture and death of An
drea Salsedo in New York; that his
tory being published in two INSTALL
mentS.
MANY well known local people
have always doubted the guilt of
Vanzetti and Sacco," declares the
Post, while labor unions here and
in the mill cities of Lawrence,
Lowell and Fall River have de
clared that the two men are being
'railroaded' by the department Of
justice"
Spread clear across the top of the
Records front page on the day
Mrs. DeFalco was arraigned was
the display line: Boston Confronted
by a Mooney Case?" and the story
which followed presented numerous
points of incongruity in the first
trial of Bartolomeo Vanzetti-dis-
crepancies which make that prose-
cution look like blood-brother of
the Mooney and Billings frame-up
in California.
When arraigned in police court
here, Mrs. DeFalco was accompanied
and represented by Attorney Samuel
l.. Bailen, who obtained a continu-
ance until January 27. Bailen is a
law partner of Frank Leveroni, coun-
sci for Charles Ponzi, the skyrocket
financial wizard whose spectacular
flight recently ended in prison at
Plymouth.
The charge that Mrs DeFalco had
unlawfully solicited law practice for
two prominent attorneys at Ded-
ham, and tried to have the work of
defending Vanzetti and Sacco trans
ferred to them, caused a notable
stir in court and law circles in Bos-
ton and surrounding towns. Dedham
is the seat of Norfolk county, and
it is there that Sacco and Vanzetti
are to be tried in March for pay
roll robbery and two murders COM
mitted last April in South Brain
tree.
In the Herald and Post accounts,
it was stated that the two Dedham
attorneys whom Mrs, DeFalco pur-
ported to serve We're reported to be
Francis j. Squires, clerk of the
Norfolk county district court, and
Percy Katzmann, brother and law
partner of District Attorney Fred
erick G. Katzmann, who will prose
cute the two Italian workers.
There was no verification of these
names in any quarter Neither the
Sacco-Vanzetti defense committee
nor their counsel would divulge to
inquiring reporters the names actu-
ally involved. When newspapers
asked Percy Katzmann to comment
on the charges against Mrs. DeFalcc
and the report that his name APP
peared in the original complaint, he
replied that he had nothing what.