The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-02

TINE United States government
L was never able, according to its
own agents, to get enough evidence
to deport Nicola Sacco and Bartolo-
meo Vanzetti to Italy during the red
batting years following the world
war.
1t did not dare put them on trial
because Of the working class prin-
ciples that they espoused.
1t, therefore, charged them with
murder in order ito dispose of
them" It built up carefully woven
tissue of lies, forced witnesses to.
periure themselves, twisted the
stories of others, in order to create
the frame-up connecting these two
workers with the payroll holdup and
murders at South Braintree, Mass,
April IL, 1920.
Glancing back over the newspaper
clippings of years ago, find such
headlines as the following: "Sacco
Gun Main Defense Point; "Sacco
files New Appeal Excerpts from
Ruling that Pistol Barrels Were In
terchanged'; FAXED Photos Framed
Sacco"; Pistol Barrels Exchanged
in Sacco- Vanzetti Case; Interchange
of Parts Used for Comparative Pur-
pose Admitted by Defense Expert
Without Effect on Motion for New
Trial, Says Court" SO 1t has been
going for six years. Instead of a
fight over notwithstanding class
principles-it has been struggle
for the Identification of bullets, guns,
automobiles and a question of the
number of witnesses that could be
won to support the lie that they saw
Sacco and Vanzetti at the scene of
the holdup.
This whole fabrication is now eff
fectually shattered in the affidavit
of Celestino Madeiros, Portuguese,
who tells the real story of the South
Braintree ho1d-up and blasts sky
high the frame-up Of the govern
ment
Madeiros, now facing death for
the Wrentham bank robbery, tells
his story in detail in the lengthy af-
fdavit filed with Judge Webster
Thayer, at Dedham, demanding
new trial.
Attorney William G. Thompson,
who is now making the legal fight
for Sacco and Vanzetti, visited
Madeiros in prison on Nov. 20, 1925
after Amleto Fabbri, of the Sacco-
Vanzetti Defense Committee, had
brought to him the confession Of
Madeiros smuggled to Sacco by a
runner in the Dedham jail reading
as follows:
II hereby confess to being in
the South Braintree Shoe COM
pany crime, and Sacco and Van
zetti was not in the crime.
(Signed) Celestino Madeiros."
Here is the story, therefore, of
one who actually participated in the
crime that the United States govern
ment charged against Sacco and
Vanzetti. Madeiros says the event
ful day, April Is, 1920, began for him
at four o'clock in the morning. He
says he was picked up at that time
at his boarding house, $50 N. Main
Street, Providence, Rhode Island, by
four Italians VINO came in an open
Hudson touring car.
Then the story proceeds. With the
Italians, Madeiros says, he drove
from Providence to Randolph, and
there changed to a Buick car which
was brought by another Italian. The
Hudson car was left in the woods
and was taken again after the rob-
berry had been done. The Buick was
left in charge of a man who, Madei-
ros understood, drove it away and
left 1t in another part of the woods.
After the job at South Braintree, and
after changing into the Hudson car,
the party passed thru Randolph, and
was seen by a boy named Thomas