The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-01

nN the night OF now IL, 1875, a
~ runner in the Dedham Jail at
Dedham, Mass, by the name Of
Miller, handed a magazine thru the
bars of the cell of Nicola Sacco,
known the world over as one of the
many class war prisoners of Amer
lean greed.
Miller told Sacco the magazine
was from a fellow prisoner, Cele-
stino Madeiros, and that he (Sacco)
should look inside. Sacco found
within the magazine slip of paper
containing the following:
~ hereby confess to being In the
South 5raIntree shoe company
crime, and sacco and Vanzetti were
not In said crime. (sianed) cele-
stino Madeiros."
Thus the actual assassins appear
five and one-half years after the
payroll holdup at South Braintree,
Mass, with its resulting murders,
which the United States govern
ment In common with the Massa-
chusetts' prosecutors have deliber-
ately used as a means with which
to send the two workers, Sacco and
Vanzett, to death in the electric
chair.
The little slip Of paper with the
admission by Madeiros is the key
stone in the bridge across which
it is hoped to return both Sacco
and Vanzetti from capitalism's
death chamber to freedom and the
working class. 1t ought to be one
Of the chnching arguments in the
demand for a new trial. But will
it? Judge Webster Thayer thru
the trial Of the whole case has
shown himself a willing tool of the
capitalist class. He has been loyal
to the employers interests all thru
the more than six years that the
case has dragged thru the exploit
ers' courts.
It was previous to Nov. IS, 1925,
that Madeiros said to Sacco: Mick,
know who did the South Braintree
job The note in the magazine,
which has been presented in open
court and is now in the possession
Of Saceo's lawyer, William G.
Thompson, came later, a piercing
ray of sunlight into the pitch-black
dungeon gloom of Dedham jail.
Thus the frame-up of the govern
ment is effectually blasted in the
minds of all thinking workers. Or,
it should be.
In the frame-up of Tom Mooney
and Warren K Billings, dn Califor-
mia, the witnesses one by one, as
years passed, confessed that they
had perjured themselves on the wit.
ness stand. The jurors, bordering
these admissions of perjury, Joined
in the demand for new trial. But
those actually involved in the 1916
Preparedness Day bomb blast in
San Francisco have never come for
ward and confessed to the crime
This is what has actually taken
place in the Sacco-Vanzetti case
thru the admissions of Madeiros
corroborated by others in numer-
Gus supporting affidavits.
The affidavit of Madeiros, secur-
ed by Attorney Thompson, was but
one of SO presented in open court.
Two of these affdavits were signed
by Fred J. Weyand and Lawrence
Letherman, former agents of the
department of justice, who claimed
that all the department Of justice
agents knew that Sacco and Van
zetti were not highway robbers, and
had nothing to do with the South
Braintree crime, but that the gov
eminent wanted ito dispose of
them"
Judge Thayer at this hour, the
second week after the reading of
the affidavits and the hearing of the
arguments in open court, still has
the case under consideration" He
is reading the afidavits and study
ing the record, at least that is what
he said he was going to do, and
declared 1t would take him several
weeks IL not months to do it.
Attorney Thompson told Judge
Thayer, in view OF the fact that the
prosecution had not refuted the vi
tai matters presented in the am
davits offered on behalf of Sacco
and Vanzetti, that 1t shouldn't re-
quire five minutes to render de-