The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-03
The Underworld of Crime
Knew the Real Criminals
i'm Sacco-Vanzetti Case
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

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w police are supposed to know, or
try to find out. Hundreds of millions
of dollars are spent annually to de-
tect crime. Elaborate police systems
are built up, especially in the. great
cities.
1t will be the purpose Of this and
the succeeding article to show that
the daily workings of this police sys-
tenn, in the cities of Boston, Mass;
Providence, R. l., and down in New
York, not to mention the smaller
mill towns involved, could easily
have uncovered the real criminals
in the South Braintree holdup and
murders that were charged against
the two workers, Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
1t will be shown, however, that
Immediately the police got the cue
that the United States government
wanted to frame-up Sacco and Van
zetti, the police quit the hunt for the
actual payroll bandits and muir
derers.
The real story Of the holdup and
shootings at South Braintree, Mass,
April Is, 1920, was told in the con-
fession Of the 26-yearrold Portu-
guese, Celestino Madeiros. This con-
fession is supported in every detail
by James F. Weeks, whose real
name is Croft, a confederate of
Madeiros in the Wrentham National
Bank murder on Nov. 1, 1924, for
which the former is now serving a
term Of life Imprisonment, while the
latter is sentenced to death, the
work of the executioner, however,
having been stayed temporarily 80
that Madeiros might appear as a
witness in case Sacco and Vanzetti
are granted a new trial.
James F. Weeks says:
at is WELL KNOWN, AND
HAS LONG BEEN WELL KNOWN
AMONG A CERTAIN CROWD, WHO
DID THE SOUTH BRAINTREE
JOB"
Weeks undoubtedly refers to the
criminal elements that move about
under the eyes Of the police very
often, as has been frequently shown,
committing their crimes If not with
the aid at least with passive con-
sent Of the police system.
The adrs lssions OF Weeks are
also Of tremendous Importance in
that they show. that Madeiros ad-
mitted his participation In the
South Braintree affair long before
(about a year, he sent his note OF
confession concealed in a magazine
to Sacco in the Dedham jail.
James F. Weeks says he has
known Madeiros for six years. He
declares that Madeiros frequently,
especially in planning the Wrent-
ham National Bank robbery, told
him about the South Braintree job
and gave him the names of his as
sociates in that crime as members
Of the Morel or Morelli gang of
Providence, Rhode Island. Weeks
knew this gang, consisting of
Joseph, the leader, with his broth
ers, Mike, Pasquale or Patsy;
Fred, sometimes called "Butsy";
Frank, man called Bibber Barone;
one called "Gyp the Blood" not,
however. the "Gyp the Blood" as
ISOLATED with the Rosenthal crime
in New York City years ago.
Weeks begins his affidavit, now
among those filed with Judge
Webster Thayer, who has the power
to grant or refuse new trial, with
the story Of preparing with Madeiros
the job at the Wrentham, Mass,
National Bank. Shortly before this
crime, Madeiros and Weeks were in
a barroom or "speak-easy" at the
corner Of Southampton st. and
Dorchester Ave, in Andrews Square,
South Boston, for the purpose OF
arranging some of the details.
Maderios said it was strange that
he should be in the very barroom
he visited four years before when he
was in the South Braintree job.
Madeiros told Weeks that he and
the gang in the South Braintree job
came to this saloon early that morn
ing to get information.
Earlier in the summer of 1924,
Weeks says, he was in the Bluebird
Inn at Seekonk, Mass, which was
run by Barney Monterio and Mary