The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-08-22
4 JUSTICES
REFUSE TO
INTERVENE F
Defense Counsel Asks Gov
crnOr Fuller for Further
Stay Of Execution
EXECUTIVE Is SILENT
50 Arrested in Boston When
Police Break up Picket Line
at Capitol
EXECUTIVE Is SILENT

StoningtOn, Maine, Aug. e.
tAP)-A stay Of execution In the
SaccO- Vanxetti case WAS refused
today by Judge Harlan +. Stone
Of the United States supreme
court at his summef home ut
Isle Au Haut.
Justice Stone was visited at
the little island. eight miles out
to sea from here, by Arthur II.
Hill, chief counsel for SaccO and
Vanxetti.
Attorney Hill made the trip to
the island by boat after coming
here on steamer from Rock
land. where he completed early
this morning 20O-mile motor
drive from Boston.
Boston, Aug. 22.-LP)--Thc allotted
hours Of life for Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti dwindled stead
lily today while legal exertions and
sympathetic demonstrations multi
piled in spite Of repeated failures.
Before another dawn the two radi-
Gals, in whose behalf there has been
worldwide agitation since their con-
victlon seven years ago of two mur-
in the electric chair at the state
prison, unless their counsel, working
ut several widespread points, obtain
another respite or stay of sentence.
With them will go Celestino Ma
deiros. who was convicted of another
murder, hut professed to have been
responsible for the crime of which
Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted.
All Up to Governor
Attempts to save Sacco and VAN
zetti early this afternoon apparently
were almost wholly back to Governor
Fuller and Massachusetts state
courts.
Four United States supreme JUS
tices. Holmes, Brandeis, Taft, and
Stone, had refused to intervene.
Counsel for the two men then went
before Governor Fuller for "a stay
to allow them further time to seek
supreme justices and also seeking to
have Fuller order examination Of
federal department of justice records
for possible new evidence.
What attention Governor Alvan +.
Fuller might give the case remained
in doubt this morning. From his
summer home he refused to COM
ment on the 11th hour offer of tho
department of justice to make avail
able to him or his advisory COM
mittee files bearing on the two men
Neither he nor his advisory COM
mittee, headed by President Lowell
of Harvard, had made request for the
files during their review and there
was no indication that they would re-
open the case.
ar< ~
the demonstrations planned by the
Sacco, Vanzetti defense committee
and the citizens national committee
for Sacco and vanzetti, which in
cluded world general STRIKE" q
long mass meeting and renewed
picketipg here today.
Refuse Rites of Church
Sacco and Vanzetti in their cells
today stood pat on their refusal of
religion. They had slept seemingly
and appeared fairly strong.
Their counsel meanwhile covered
a large section Of the east with dra-
matte attempts to stave off the ex-
ecutions set for shortly after mid
nipht. but failed in attempts to get
intervention from Supreme Court
Justice Taft and Supreme Court JUS
tlce Stone. There remained Governor
Fuller, who started his day in Bos-
ton silent as usual, and attempts fel
stay of execution in state courts.
Boston durin- the forenoon had no
serious outbreaks Of violence ir
Sacco- -Vanzetti demonstrations, al
though So arrests were made when
police broke up a picket line in front
Of the state house. Reports from all
over the world indicated that the day
was passing similarly elsewhere.