Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-08
SACCO-VANZETTI
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qualifiedly false. She signed. she
said, after q conference with her son.
John Andrews IIassan, Fred Moore,
attorney for the defense and others
which lasted from 7.3O o'clock in the
evening until o'clock in the morn
ing.
Sacco and Vanzetti were, found
guilty Of first. degree murder and
have been awaiting sentence since.
Sacco has gone on hunger strike
and today completed his 21st day OF
fast. A hearing on the supplement
tary motions for q new trial Is
scheduled for Friday.
The commonwealth today also filed
affdavits Of all, the living jurors who
found Sacco and Vanzetti guilty, in
connection with the presence in the
jury room of three cartridges. In
the first supplementary motion for q
new trial. the defense declared that
sthe foreman OF the jury had in his
possession three cartridges similar to
those introduced at the trial which
Were taken from gun found in Sac
co.'s possession. The foreman. Wal
ter Ripley, has since died.
In their affidavits all but two Of
the jurors denied any knowledge of
the presence Of the cartridges in the
jury room, and those two denied that
the bullets were placed in view Or
mentioned while deliberations were
going on.
On the second supplementary mo-
ton of the defense which has to do
with one Roy Gould, who the de-
Tense declared with near the scene
of the shooting and saw tho men in
the bandit car, the Commonwealth
filed an affidavit of Chief of Police
Gallivan, of Braintree in which he
declared that Gould never approch-
ed him or volunteered any informa-
ton concerning the shooting. The
defense had claimed that Gould, af-
ter seeing tho fleeing car told the
chief of police and that the govern
ment had broken faith by not lprO-
ducing him as a witness.
Louis Pelsea, who testified at the
trial that il Sacco was not the man
seen gun in hand at the murder
scene, he was a. dead image" of
him, said that he signed paper, the
contents of which he knew little, in
the Office of Attorney Fred Moore.
after he had been taken there bya
man who found him in a fremont
street boarding house in an intoxi-
Gated condition. He said in his af-
fidavit that the man who took him
to MoOre's Office gave him 20 cents
and food when he WAS down and out
and without work. He also .declar-
ed that on afIixing his signature to
the paper in the Office Of the defense
counsel he was promised a job.
The following day he got in touch
with the then district attorney, F..
G.. KatZban. and later made the af-
fidavit to the present district attor-
ney. Harold j. Williams. An affi-
davit by Carlo L. Goodrige. alias
Erastus Corning Whitney, another
government witness, was also filed
in which he said Attorney Moore
had caused his arrest in Auburn,
Me-. after learning that an indict-
ment was pending against him in
Livingston Couty. New York State,
ad that Moore had repeatedly at
tempted to learn why he had testi-
fed. The affidavit alleged that Moore
had attempted to secure state
ment that Goodridge had been coerc-
ed into tesHfying.
Other affidavits from officers OF
Livingston County. mostly residents
of Keneseo. n. Y. were filed in which
it was said that Moore had learned
that Goodridge was in fact Whit
ucNs against NtoIih an iilNi'NiAiNiie
has been returned for stealing a
horse in 1911. and that when Moore
caused his arrest in Auburn. with
the assistance of Mrs. Ethel w. Lee,
then deputy sheriff, they had de-
clned to prosecute the prisoner. Ar
fidavits fro mthe Auburn officials
showed that the man was later re-
leased. and returned to his farm at
Nassalboro. where Moore located
him.
The statement of Mrs. Andrews to
the district attorney related that the
womans son, by a former marriage,
had been brought from Maine to
Boston by representatives of the
and that he had urged her to sign
"wordcd by Moore" threatening if
she refused. to make public alleged
incidents in her past life.
Mrs. Andrews said that after n con-
feence which lasted more than eight
hours beginning in a Boston hotel
and ending in Moore's home, she
signed upon the repeated demands
OF her son and others present. a
statement. the contents of which she
was ignorant. She said that they re-
fused to let her go home until she
signed although she broke down and
cried and became almost hysterical.
"They dipped a pen in ink and
pushed it into my hand" the woman
said in her affidavit, "all the time |
was crying and asking them not to
force me to- sign it. My son then
said: Mother. l want you to sign
that paper for it means n whole lot
to me- Then took the pen and
signed
Mrs. Andrews deposcd that she lat
e. signed a second affidavit for Moore
in connection with the case in which
her son also entered n plea before
she affixed her signature and that
since that time she has not seen or
heard from the young man. Theafii.
davit also contained a general denial
or most of the statements appearing
in the affidavit filed by the Sacco-
Fanzetti defense. in Guiding a dec
l1ration that officers of the prosecu-
ton had coereed her. into declaring
that she was able to identity Sacco.