The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-08-26
SACCO-VANZETTi
CASE

sea has seized many people in this
section as they contemplate the
verdict in the case of Sacco and
Vanzetti, the two Italian labor or
ganizers lately convicted of payroll
murders at Braintree.
Wherever the twelve jurors in
that case walk they are met with
questioning eyes. They know that
a great hue and cry has gone up
against that verdict; that even the
conservative newspapermen who
covered the trial for the Boston
dailies declare that the conviction
was never justified by the evil
dence.
They remember, too, the piercing
accusation shot at them by Nicola
Sacco from the defendants cage as
they condemned the two: owe
are innocent! You kill two inno-
cent men!"
Some of the jurors try to explain
the verdict, and do it lamely. 9th
ers maintain a stony silence, which
is the safer policy. Foreman Walter
H. Ripley has said that the YER
dict was based on tiny mark
found on the bullet which killed
Alexander Berardelli, payroll guard,
Prosecutor Frederick Katzmann had
argued that this mark was caused
by rust or fouling in the revolver
carried by Sacco three weeks after
the murders. But Captain Charles
Van Amburgh, commonwealth eX-
pert, admitted that such rust or
fouling was a common occurrence,
and that the mark might have been
made by any one of many guns.
One juror admitted that 'the rest
of the jurors" were preiudiced
against the Italian witnesses for
the defense, and figured that "the
Italians would stick together no
matter what happened" But this
does not explain why they rejected
the testimony of all the Amer
lean witnesses who swOre that they
talked with Sacco in Boston and
with Vanzetti in Plymouth on the
afternoon when the payroll guards
were killed miles away.
Curious and Illuminating detail
of that last hysterical night in the
Dedham courtroom is published in
a review Of the case by the Brock
ton Daily Enterprise.
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pairing a motion for a new trial. =
be argued in September befor;
Judge Webster Thayer, who pre-
sided at the Dedham trial. II 4.
| rejects that motion, it will be tax
en- to the Supreme Court, Novem
Der l. supported by a bill Of ex
ceptions showing innumerable er
rors in the trial procedure.
Many disinterested persons have
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We're unfair, in view of the evidence
of the radical activities of the de
PENDANTS and their anti-war histor
les. He pleaded for loyalty t
government" talked about "con
seriousness of guilt as murderers o
as slackers and radicals" and ad
monished the jury to seek courage
in your deliberations as did tn
American soldier as he fought an,
gave up his life on the battle
fields of France" These word
were uttered to a Puritan New
England jury.
Charles F. Dole, prominent au
thor, in a letter published in tn
Boston Herald, declares that a Ger
tain passage in the judges instruc
tions might have sounded to tn
jury like a death sentence. Thi
was the passage:
"If person is willing to use
deadly weapon such as a revolve
upon an arresting officer to gail
his liberty, what would you nat
urally expect would be the gravit,
of the crime of which such a per
son must be consciously guilty."
Alexander Howat writes from
Kansas to the defense committe,
sending money and reaffirming hi
belief in the Innocence of SAGE,
and Vanzetti. The Sons of Italy