The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-22
|BRANDEIS DENIES
PLEA FOR SACCO-
vANzETTI STAY
F e d er al Investigation
Sought by Liberals

One more legal move is contena-
plated by Arthur d. Hill, attorney for
Sacco and Vanzetti, following yester-
days refusal of United States Su-
preme Court Justice Brandeis to en-
terrain petition for a stay of execu-
ton for the two men.
Hill will call upon Justice Harlan
Stone to grant the stay, and if he re-
fuses to act-as have both Brandeis
and Oliver Wendell Holiness what is
said to be the last haze IA lsa,'= nc sa.,,
condemned men thru the courts will
have failed.
He's Interested.
Justice Brandeis, when visited yes
terday at his home in latham, 1870
miles from Boston, refused to grant
the petition, so attorney Hill reports,
because of the fact that his family
was so interested in the case that it
would be unethical for him to inter
vene.
While counsel tries this last court
move, Mrs. Jessica Henderson, a
wealthy Sacco-Fanzetti sympathizer
left here tonight for Washington to
make an examination of the depart
ment of justice records in this case.
Just what her next step will be after
that was not clear. She will have to
work fast if she completes her probe
before the men are slated to die. Ar
thur Garfield Hays, New York lawyer,
and Francis Fisher Kane, Of Philadel-
phia are also reported to have gone
to Washington to get the department
of justice records unlocked"
BOrah Offers to Look In.
Both are allied with the Citizens
National Sacco-Vanzetti Committee,
composed of prominent liberals, which
yesterday announced that Senator
William E. Borah has offered his time
and services to aid in the legal end
of the case. The telegram from Borah
says:
Replying to your telegram, l
would be glad to go over the case
with counsel and if / find 1 can be of
service relative to innocence or fair
trial, will volunteer my time and ser
vices"
The committee said Senator Borah
was invited to leave for Boston inn
mediately and that efforts are being
made to obtain an airplane for him.
He also has been asked to address an
appeal to Governor Fuller for a stay
of execution.
Two Workers Brave.
Sacco and Vanzetti were stoical
when they received the news of their
latest defeat. They hadn't placed any
hopes on its success anyway. They
have been disappointed too often be-
fore.
They fully expect to die tonight.
Nevertheless their friends continue
their frantic efforts to save them. A
strong appeal will be made to Cover
nor Fuller tomorrow. Another appeal
is to be made to Senator David I.
Walsh, who lives here. u. S. Attor-
ney General Sargent said yesterday
he would take under advisement an
appeal that was made to him yester-
day for the opening of the depart
ment of justice files.
But these are slim chances-very
slim indeed and no one knows it any
better than Sacco and Vanzetti.
Vanzetti was visited again yester-
day morning by his sister LUCIA, who
saw him Saturday for the first time
in 10 years. Yesterdays meeting was
rather brief and Unconditional Mrs.
Sacco visited her husband in an ad-
joining cell at the same time. She
has called on him every day recently
and these meetings have become I'm
eventful. Yesterdays meeting was
vastly different from Saturdays
touching scenes, when Sacco and his
wife stood by and stared at Vanzetti
and his sister in their emotional en-
brace. They will see their loved ones
again today perhaps for the last time.