The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-02
Madeiros Tells Truth
that Blasts Frame-up
of Sacco and Vanzetti
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

! Pride and his sister. Madeiros says
he became acquainted with the boy
four years later when he came to
live in Randolph with his pal James
f. Weeks, on the same street.
When the party started from Prov
idence at 4 a. m. on the day of the
robbery and murder, it went first
to Boston, then back to Providence,
then back to South Braintree, ar
irving about noon. The men spent
some time in a "speak-easy" in
South Braintree, two or three miles
from the place of the crime.
On the visit to Boston stop was
made in Andrew Square. Madeiros
remained in the car while the others
went into saloon to get informa-
ton, as they told him, about the pay
roll money that was to be sent to
South Braintree.
Madeiros said he. had never before
been in South Braintree These four
men had persuaded him to go with
them two or three nights previously,
in saloon in Providence. Two were
men from 20 to rs years of age, one
was about 40, and the fourth about
35. Madeiros was then IS, which
means that he is now only "a.
Two men did the shooting, the
oldest one and one other man. When
the party broke up lit was agreed
that the others should meet Made
iros in Providence saloon the next
night to divide the money (more
than $4,000 was taken) that they
had obtained. Madeiros went to the
saloon but the others did not come.
Madeiros said that during the pay
roll robbery he remained in the back
seat of the automobile; that he had
Colt automatic pistol, but did not
use 1t. He was told that he was
there to help back the crowd in case
rush was made.
Madeiros says that two of these
men lived on South Main Street, and
two on North Main Street, in lodg-
ing houses, and that he had known
them three or four months. The
oldest man was called Mike, another
one was called William, or "Bill,"
and he did not remember what the
others were called. but said that
their names did not amount to any
thing because they changed their
names frequently.
Madeiros again reiterates in his
affidavit that Sacco and Vanzetti had
nothing to do with this crime, that
it was entirely put up" by the old
est of the Italians in Providence.
In an antotation later in writing on
the margin Of his affidavit, Madeiros
claims that he knows the last names
of all four of these men, but that he
refuses to disclose them.
This is the simple story of the
South Braintree hold-up and muir
ders, admitted by one of the parti-
cipants. 1t is repetition of the
story of hundreds of similar hold
ups and sometimes murders in other
sections of the country, with which
labor has had as little to do as
Sacco and Vanzetti were concerned
in the South Braintree affair.
Sacco and Vanzetti are still in
prison sentenced to death in the
electric chair. A capitalist Judge is
bordering whether he shall grant
them a new trial on this new evil
dence disclosed.
Labor over the land must thunder
its demand, not only that Sacco and
Vanzetti be granted a new trial, but
that they be Internationally freed on
the ground that the governments
frame-up has been blasted to bits
with the truth after six long years
of delay. Working class Justice for
Saeeo and Vanzettll
Tomorrow-The affldavit OF James
f. Weeks, pal of Madeiros, who cor
roborates the affidavit made by Ma
deiros.