New Britain herald., 1927-08-23
Radicals Proclaim h. nocence in Last Talk With Counsel --Van- zetti Converses on Electric Chair---Sac- co, Dying, Whispers, Farewell Mother"
Members of Defense Com. mittee Claim Bodies Plan to Exhibit Them in Several Cities of the East Special Baskets Or. dered.

Boston. Aug. 2s (UP)-The sacco. Fanzetti case. which dragged through the Massachusetts courts for seven years, ended dramatically in the electric chair early today in just 24 minutes.
 Stoically and with flash of de. flance. Nicola Sacco, the shoe mak- CT. and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, tho fish peddler, went to their death protesting their innocence. Celestino Madeiros the youthful Portuguese. who had confessed to the crimes of which they were con- victed went with them. He, too, died stoic.
 A gray old prison that resembled an ancient fortress was the scene of this closing chapter of the case that started as the murder of a paymas- ter and his guard and ultimately be- came world issue. Up to the hour of doom. weary attorneys who had battled relentless- ly that the lives of the condemned anarchists might be prolonged. held the faintest simmer of hope of stay ing the hand of death.
 Once before-only 12 days since these same lives had been spared by a midnight reprieve. But last mid- night brought no respite, and in the minutes that followed, Sacco and Vanzett paid with their lives for their alleged killing of Frederick Parmenter and Alexander Berardelli during payroll hold-up on April 15, 1920. Execution Dramatic The triple execution was intense 1 ly dramatic. yet methodical careful and not without dignity. The three men were ready for death and met 1t without show of ] fear.
 Madeiros, who played only a min- | or role in the drama, was stolid and resigned to the inevitable. At 12:0o a. m. he entered the death | chamber. He walked to the chair. led by two guards, and sat down to 1 die. At nine minutes and 35 seconds i past midnight the doctors announce ed he was dead. Nicola Sacco was brought in next. at 12:11 m. A man of 36 years. he seemed younger as he walked with pale face but set lines. and steady gait to the chair. | Just before he died he voiced his unalterable convictions.
 Long live anarchy" he cried, in Italian.
 He was sitting in the death chair. | Guards adjusted straps and tho electrodes.
 Farewell. my wife and child and all my friends" he said audibly, this time in broken English. Just before Robert Elliott, the ex- ecutioner, threw his switch from be- hind a screen, Sacco spoke his last words:
 Farewell. mother" Sacco's Body Removed A deathly silence then prevailed | in the room A dozen men were | there. but the only sound was the subdued shufflng of the two men who carried what had been Nicola Sacco to a marble slab behind pro- | tecting screen. He was pronounced dead at 12:19 a. m. Vanzetti was brought in at 1920 a. m. with his mild. reproachful brown eyes and dropping, walrus- like mustache. he radiated even at the hour of death the restless en- ergy which made him, an Italian im- migrant and fish peddler. an intel lectual leader in his circle.
 He was three years older than Sacco.
 Vanzetti was more dramatic. The attendants seemed more to be ac- companying than leading him.
 He stopped to shake hands with his guards.
 Then he sat in the death seat without tremor and said: ! "I wish to tell you I am innocent and never committed any crime but sometimes some sin.
 I thank you for everything you have done.
 T am innocent of all crime. not only of this one, but all.
 q am an innocent man.
 q wish to forgive some people for what they are now doing to me-"
 The earnest. broken English was followed by brief, profound silence.l
 Vanzetti Pronounced Dead
 Then the warden's arm raised in the signal to the electrician. Van zetti was pronounced dead at 1928 a. m.
 The triple execution was over be- fore the day was half an hour old.
 The hundreds of police and troops,