The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-01

lures inflicted on him and jumped
while insane will never be known.
Sacco and Vanzetti were friends Of
his. They were arranging meetings
thruout New England protesting
against what they called his murder.
They were never able to hold any Of
the meetings as they were arrested
on May 5. For two days they were
held as reds. But suddenly they were
charged with having committed a pay
roll hold up and having murdered two
pay roll guards at South Braintree,
Mass, April is, 1920. VIM. ]. Flynn,
then head of the department of JUS
tice bureau Of investigation evidently
didn't want to have anything to do
with a red" case which would open
up the whole question Of how Salsedo
had met his fate.
The Frame-up.
For weeks Sacco and Vanzetti were
taken thru the towns of Massachu-
sets where lived the persons who had
seen the South Braintree hold up and
murders. They were made to dress
as had the bandits and were forced
to assume certain poses suggestive of
the hold up and murders. Under the
circumstances a number of persons
were found who said that they recog-
nized them as the bandits and muir
derers.
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called "identifications" were so mud
died that the state had to bolster its
case up. Lola Andrews, a woman of
loose habits and questionable past,
was gotten at by the prosecuting at
torney. She was threatened and in.
undated. Carlos Goodridge a petty
thief and bigamist then in Jail charg.
ed with larceny volunteered his ser.
vices in return for a suspended SEN
tence on the larceny charge.
Louis Pelzer, boy who worked in
the factory near the scene of the hold
up, was kept at work as soon as he
agreed to identify Sacco, altho he
was a totally inexperienced work
man. When the trial was over he
was fired. He then told the defense
he had helped to swear away the
lives of Sacco and Vanzetti to keep
his job. When the frame-up gang got
Tim another job he swore he had lied
to the defense and that his identif-
cation was a true one.
The experts who took the stand to
say that the bullet which killed the
man for whose murder the defend
ants were on trial came from Sacco's
gun have just recently admitted that
they didn't believe there was any
proof that the bullet did come from
Sacco's gun. They say that the pro
secutor knew their opinion and SO
put his questions as to preclude the
possibility of their giving their true
opinion.
Roy e. Gould, man who saw the
murder and hold up and who had one
of the bandits bullets pass thru his
coat, gave his name to the police after
the murder but was never called as a
witness by the state. Why? Gould
could not be bulldozed by the police
and the district attorney. He is not
the sort of fellow to take part In fran
ing innocent men. So he was passed
up by the prosecution in favor of
young boy who would lie to keep
his job, woman who didn't want her
questionable past raked up, and a
horse thief, petty larceny artist and
bigamist.
There were other witnesses against
Sacco and Vanzetti but these three
were the stars. They are the people
who put Sacco and vanzetti in the
shadow of the electric chair and who
helped to suppress the facts as to the