The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-09-23
TREACHERY Of THE COURTS
(By The Federated Press)

Boston. The Norfolk county frame
Iup ring responsible for the conviction
Iof Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van
zetti on a murder charge stands expos
led to-day BY one Of its own principal
tools and victims
Mrs Lola R. Andrews, state witness
on identification, and perhaps the most
sensational figure in the famous trial,
has confessed that her testimony was
IN its entirety unqualifiedly false and
untrue. Z
Her Identification Of Sacco, she all
lleges. was made under the intimida-
lting sand coercing influences of Mich
1ael E. Stewart, Albert L. Brouillard,
Harold Williams and Frederick G.
Katzmann." The first two are police
|officers working under direction Of Dis
ltrict Attorney Katzmann, and Williams
lis an assistant district attorney.
| The reDudiation Of her testimony BY
Mrs. Andrews was made, it appears
from the motion filed in Dedham suner-
|ior court. in the presence Of. two labor
men, Of Mrs. Andrews son, of Defense
Attorney Fred H. Moore, and a notary.
The confession Of this witness that
|she made a perjured Identification has
lovershadowed even primary election
Enews. on the front pages Of the local
fpress. The labor men who witnessed
1.-THE signing Of the confession were John
Ivan Vaerenwyck, vice-president Mas
Isachusetts State Federation of Labor,
and Fred c. Biedenkapp. New York,
1.-THE woman's son, was present through
Tout and pleaded with his mother to.
clear her name by complete state
iment of the TRUTH
/ The affidavit of Mrs. Andrews was
filled with Others outlining the circum-
stances leading to the confession. Nor
lal suasion by the son was the chief fac
|tor in the dramatic story Mrs An
IIrews' identification Of Sacco during
the trial was in direct contradiction to
statement she had given the defend
ant's counsel months before the trial.
Her present affidavit moi only confirms
Iher original denial Of being able to
identify. but reveals how pressure was
Iappl,ed by the police and the district
attorney to make her come through.
| Mrs. Andrews was en- the witness
stand for three days during the trial
last year. Because of the dramatic
incidents which developed while she
Testified, the attendant publicity, and
! the terrific legal battle centering around
her, she became the outstanding prose-
cution witness.
J Her aft davit indicates how the af-
fiant was given to understand that the
commonwealth was in possession Of
facts relative to the private life of the
aff;aht which the affiant was not de-
sirous Of having brought out on the
witness stand, and how thru threats
based on that knowledge she was Co
creed and inundated
After the recital Of other incidents,
Mrs. Andrews sums up her confession
thus: THAT the purpose of this ,affi-
Edavit in substance and effect is to make
it known tc the court that the affiant
does not state emphatically that she
cannot state that Nicola Sacco, the de-
PENDANT in the above entitled action, is
the man that she saw at South Brain
tree on April IS, 1920, and that any
and all parts of her testimony given
in the above entitled cause contrary to
this statement are false and untrue and
were made under the intimidating and
coercing influences Of Michael E. Stew
at, Albert L. Brouillard, Harold Will
hams and Frederick G. Katzmann.' .
! The part Of her confession relating
tic Williams is Of particular significance
because Williams is the man who, ac-
cording to the sworn confession Of am
other witness. Louis Pelser. frightened
him into making a perjured identifica-
ton Of Sacco.
In edition to the Pelser and AN
4 -ews renudiations the motion for a
new trial is supported by the e2n9
several weeks ago Of state witness Eras-
tus E. Whitney, alas Goodridge. 9th
er new testimony Will Be filed in the
future.
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