The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-18
TRAILING SACCO
AND V4NZETTI
Evidence to Show They Were in
Bridgewater Night Before Muir
der, or April Is.


Dedham, Mass, June lS.---Testimony
| which placed Mecca Sacco and Bar.
tolomeo Vsnzetti on the night of the
| killing of a paymaster and his guard
| at South Braintree year ago within
mile and a half of the point at West
Bridgewateg where the automobile al
legged to have been that used by the
highwaymen in their flight was found,
was given by a prosecution witness
yesterday.
Austin c. Cole, street car con
ductor, testified that two men whom
he identified as the defendants, board
his car in West Bridgewater on April
Is, 1920. They got aboard about a
mile and one-half from the place where
the automobile was discovered two
days later, he said, and about half
mile from the home of Simon John
son, keeper of West Bridgewater
garage, WHICH has figured in the testi-
mony. Cole added that the same men
boarded his car al the same place on
the night of May 5, 1920 and rode
as far as the Brockton police sta
ton, where they were arrested by off
GERS who were also aboard.
Objections by counsel for Sacco and
Vanzetti to the prosecutions line of
testimony to-day developed from the
court a request for a statement by
the prosecution of the form that fur
Their evidence would take.
Government witnesses, Assistant
District Attorney Williams replied,
would be produced with a view to
showing that the defendants were as
sociated closely with Mike Boda of
West Bridgewater and a man named
Orciani; that Boda was seen driving
large automobile similar to that in
which the highwaymen fled from the
scene of the killing of the paymas
ter and his guard; that Oreiani Sacco
and Vanzetti were together at Slough
ton with a motorcycle the day before |
the arrest of the defendants; that
Boda had kept an automobile in a shed |
near his house at West Bridgewater |
under conditions indicating conceal |
ment, and that Saeco and Vanzetti |
were in that vicinity the night before
the crime.
Volleys of objections had met at
tempts of the state to bring out from
johnson, the garage keeper, the sub
iect Of his conversation with Mike
Boda, alleged associate of the defend
ants, shortly before they were arrest
ed On cross-examination Johnson ties
titled that he had advised Boda that
night not to take his old automobile
from the johnson garage because it
had no 1920 number plates on it. On
redirect examination Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Williams asked john
son to relate his full conversation with
Boda that night,
Examination of johnson was sus-
pended pending consultation of de-
Tense counsel with the district attor
new.
Examination Of Napoleon ]. Encher,
a West Bridgewatei farmer. also was
suspended and the court then asked
the prosecution to state plainly what
It intended to show.
Cole subsequently qualified his
statement as to the date on which Sac
70 and Vanzetti first boarded his car.
It was either the night Of the l4th
Or 18th, he said. adding that he was
not positive it was the night of the
murder.
Vanzetti startled the court by
shouting, "You are liar" at states
witness who testified that Vsnzetti
reached for his hip pocket when placed
under arrest. A revolver was found
IN Vanzetti at the time, the witness
said.
Michael !. Connolly. a Brockton pc
iceman, who gave this testimony. tes
.ified also that in response to a tele
phone call at the police station he
boarded a car from Bridgewster the
hight of May 5, 1920, under instruc-
ions to arrest two foreigners on II.
He. found Sacco and Vanzetti and took
hem from the trolley. On the way
% the police station in an automobile.
Connolly said Sacco kept trying to get
lis hand under his coat near his side.
No gun was found on him at the time
n only a superficial examination, Con-
iolly said.
When Saeco was arrested the
3roekton police said he had a pis-
ol on him