The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-30
Rich Boston Women Strongest Friends Of
 Conuicted Italians
Highwaymen's Case Has Set ''Red" Fire Blaz ing Throughout Europe-Sacco's Wife
 Lived at Home of Justice Brandies
By EDMUND HART

By EDMUND HART
 Special Correspondent of The Age-Herald
 Copyright. 1891. by The Age -Herald)
 (Herc at last is the expiana-
 ti"n of n grcnt international pug
 gle. Here the story of SnccO
 and Vanzetti. story which has
 puzzled America for week, ever
 since the cabI .s started telling
 of the communist uproar in Eu-
 rope caused by two obscure men
 in an American prison. It Is an interesting revelation, and gone F. of its threads leads to the very
 home of justice of the Unit d
 States supreme court, where Sac
 co.'s wife was given asylum to
 be near her socialist husband in
 the Dedham jai1D
 Boston, Mass, October 29.--Sacco and Vanzetti. Two names that have set red" fire blazing throughout Eu- rope. Two names that turned Paris last Sunday into an armed camp. Two names that caused bomb explosion in the American embassy in the French capital. Two names that have caused threats against the lives of all of America's diplomatic repre- sentatives in the old world. Two names that have carried the virus of red" agitation even to South Amer ica, where threats are made against the United States ambassador at Buenos Aires.
 And who are Sacco and Vanzetti? Who are these obscure personages who literally have rocked the world ? The cables connecting them with the furor in Europe have said merely that they were two men convicted of mur- der in Massachusetts.
 Big Case in Massachusetts.
 Unquestionably it was the first time the great mass of people of America had ever heard of the men. But the cases of Nicola Sacco and Bartholo- meo Vanzetti and their connection with the affairs on the continent are better understood in Massachusetts, where the two Italian socialists and communists are in jail awaiting the outcome of a petition for a new trial, based on exceptions taken by their counsel before Judge Webster Thay- CT, who presided at their first ap- bearing. Should Judge Thayef refuse to grant a new trial, lawyers for the convicted men will in all probability, appeal to the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts, and the chances are that it will be months before Sac co and Vanzetti actually come with in the shadow of the electric chair in the state prison. under the very brow of Bunker Hill.
 Briefly, the story of the crime for which these two men were convicted is as follows:
 On the afternoon of April Is, 1920, Frederick A. Parmenter, paymaster Of the Slater & Merrill Shoe company of South Braintree, Mass, accompa- nied by Allessandro Berrardelli. a special policeman of the Boston sub urb, were on their way from the bank to the shoe factory. with the com pany's pay roll. amounting to over S15,000. Two bandits held up the paymaster and the policeman, emp tied their revolvers into their bodies, killing them, and got away with the booty It was weeks after that Sacco was arrested charged with the crime. The arrest of vanzetti followed some time afterwards.
 Lasted Several Weeks
 The trial took place in Norfolk county, where the crime was com mitted. and lasted several weeks. The date-pf the arrest of Sacco is sig nificant. because at that time the de- partment- of justice at Washington was making a nationwide campaign
 
 against so-called reds" all over the country Sacco and Vanzetti were gathered in as "red' suspects. In- deed, they never denied their connec- tion with the radical element and their examination at the trial on this score formed an important link in the governments case. The charge of murder was not made against them until after their arrests in connec- tion with the ''red" raids.
 The moment they were arrested their comrades in this country and abroad rallied to their support and raised sum of s50.000 for their de- fense. District Attorney Fred H Katzmann. who prosecuted Sacco and Vanzetti. claimed that he was sub- jected to steady torrent of vilhfi- cation by members of the Boston Italian colony, but he went through with the trial without flinching and Is still insisting that the men were legally convicted and there is no good