Evening star., 1923-03-11
.SACCO SEES DEATH
IN HUNGER STRIKE
Convicted of Murder, Radical
Says He'll Die Within
Three Weeks.
WIFE PLEADS IN VAIN
Prisoner Determined to Starve I'm
less New Trial Is Granted.
Hearing on Friday.
Special Dispatch to Tie Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DEDHAM, Mass, March 10-NIco!..
Sacco, convicted of murder, i'll hi
cell today began his twenty-fourtlr
day of self-imposed hunger strike
The prisoner for whose freedom So
cialists and radicals all over the
world, and especially in Russia, hay"
prayed and labored. is very weak. L.
* considered doubtful that he viii
be able to go to court next Friday
when his lawyers will continue argu
ment for i new trial.
That is Il small matter, he says.
81 expect TO be dead in three week
anyhow" he declares, "shrugging his
emaciated shoulders. and thus SHOW
the enormity Of the injustice dor"
me. ! am innocent Of crime"
Convicted OF Double Murder.
Sacco and his pal, Bartelemeo Van
z"tti. were convicted Of the murd"I
of Policeman Allessandro BemarelG
and Frederick A. Parmentier Il Sho"
factory paymaster. April Is. 1920, The
case has been dragging in the courts
ever since. Yesterday counsel for thu
defense ask Ell another week in which
to complete argument for IL new trial
Against the wishes OF Sacco, WAc
urged Il swift conclusion, the Judg''
granted the rnStponement. The prls-
oners were escorted back to confin"
ment. Vanzetti going to the state
prison at Boston and Sacco comins
TO the Jail here, where he has lived
for thirty-four months.
The -Eanzetti case has attract
ed world wide attention. 1t is con
sidered one of the stfangest in the
history of criminology. Its echoes
have been heard in Moscow, Paris
Rome. and even South America. where
their fellow communists and sym
pathizers have sought to terrorizr
ambassadors and consuls b.
noisy demonstrations and bomh
threats, in hopes OF winning the re
lease OF Nick" and Bart"
Sympathy Widespread.
Sympathy for The convicted men has
not been confined TO the reds Of this
eign lands. Organized tabor and pa
Tor socialists prominent in Boston
Back Bay section and other aristo-
cratic suburban cities and towns haNr
joined in demanding new trial. Thr
wife of a United States Supreme Courr
justice has offered her home to the
wife Of one of the prisoners that stt
may be near him in the jail.
When the United States authorttles
staged their gigantic roundup OF
Te0S III various par VI lIlS SUuHk4N
violent outcries emanated from the
of Europe, who apparently
were particularly shocked at the con-
viction of Sacco and NanZeti. well
known in socialist circles. Immediate
ly a large sum of money was raised in
their behalf. Competent legal counsel
was retained Not for an instant
since has there been a lessening OF
interest on the part of the socialists,
yet their efforts toward inducing the
q -
fruitless.
Prosecution Is Fearless.
The life of Judge Webster Thayes
who sat in the case. was threatened.
District Attorney Katznan, who prose
cuted the men. is now out of office, but
Harold D. Williams. his successor. is
standing boldly by the verdict. insist
ing that sentence be pronounced ana
the matter rubbed from the docket
After many postpoGements and ad-
iournments counsel for the convicted
men last July submitted evidence at
tacking the credibiMty of some govern
ment witnesses. On these grounds
Friday
Rumors OF radical plans to use
direct methods" in dealing with the
Judge and prosecuting lawyer. having
been heard by authorities, they have
these officials with plain
clothes men at every trial and hear
ing. Dramatic incidents have fecked
these trials. making them more like
scenes in q Sicilian court than in Ii
wee courtroom in the shiretown Of
county. Many times
defense attorneys and officials have
had to restrain the prisoners from cry
ing out rehemently against witnesses
Offering testimony considered damag-
ing.
Government Is Ready.
Scenes even more dramatic are GA
pected next Friday, particularly if In
ternationally famous Sacco is carried
to court on stretcher, although. Of
he may be dead by then. The
viii submit startling
nter-afIidavits to those of defense
The defense contends that
two government witnesses since the
trial of 1921 have taken back what
they said against Sacco and Vanzetti"
The government will tend to prove
that some Of these witnesses were
coerced into contradicting themselves
for the prisoners benefit, and one
was drunk when writing his self
And while the prosecutors and the
lawyers for defense marshal their
forces for the imminent affray, Nicola
5acco turns away from viands cooked
by friends in an attempt to draw him
from his purpose, and suffers His
wife pleads with him to eat. He
shakes his head wearily.
"Come to see me whenever you car
he whispers to her, for l. won't BE-
fourth day OF my hunger strike I viii
be dead
Copyright, 1897