New Britain herald., 1927-08-13
.SACCO UNDEFEA7EDI IN
18TH DAY OF Fasting
Vanzetti Cheered By Pros
pect Of Seeing Sister
Before His Death

Boston, Aug. Il P-The first lull
in the Sacco-Vanzetti case in many
weeks found both prisoners appar-
emily better spirited today in their
cells at Charlestown state prison. al
| though Nicola Sacco's continued re-
fusal of food has alarmed some of
his friends who are considering ask
ing Warden Hendry to brighten him
| into eating with a threat of forcible
feeding.
Sacco will have tasted % days, to-
day, but has yet to show any sign
of weakness.
Rumors that the prisoner had COL
lapsed or had gone mad brought
quick denial from the prison and a
declaration by Hendry that II they
persisted. he would consider refus-
ing any further Information on the
condition of either man.
DR.. Joseph Mclaughlin, the
prison physician, talked with the
former Stoughton shoemaker, who
walked to his cell door with little
effort. DR.. Mclaughlin does not feel
any concern for Sacco's health and
let it be known that he had not yet
made plans to force the condemned
man to break his fast.
Sacco's adversion to forcible feed
ing is well understood. Once before
he attempted a hunger strike while
in the Dedham Jail. He refused food
for a month but when the authori-
ties resorted to stronger methods
than persuasion. Sacco's strike came
TO quick end.
Bartolomeo Nanzetti was cheered
by the news that his sister. who has
been detained week in France
through passport difficulties, was
finally to sail.
Shortly before his scheduled ex-
ecution last Thursday morning he
expressed regret that he could not
see her before he died, and after
being respited declared his joy at
the prospect of a reunion before he
must go to the electric chair, should
the courts refuse his latest pleas.
DoStoll' au6. Ol az ~ iooih
garb hanging loosely from his frail
form, Nicola Sacco, on the 2Sth day
of his hunger strike, today continu-
ed to stubbornly ignore pleas of his
wife and lawyers that he break his
fast.
Even the implorations OF Bartolo-
meo Vanzetti, his beloved comrade
in their remarkable seven-year fight
to beat the electric chair, had failed
to move him from his iron determin-
alton to starve as a martyr in the
name of justice.
"Barto," as sacco affectionately
calls his friend, has had coffee, milk
and beef tea within the last two
days as a means of gradually break
ing his hunger strike. But he has
pleaded in vain with Sacco to fol-
low suit.
Every day finds Mrs. Rose Sacco
at the door of her husbands cell,
peeping pitifully at him through the
small hole on the cellfront and beg
ging him to take nourishment so he
may regain his strength to with
stand the impending crisis when his
fate finally will be decided.
The mother of his two children
also has failed to convince him that
he would help his own cause most
by abandoning his fast.
If Sacco continues his abstinence
from food until Wednesday, he will
have broken the fasting record
which he established while confined
to Dedham jail in 1923.
While prison authorities stated
forced feeding had not been consid-
cred, Attorney Michael Angelo Mus
manno of Pittsburgh. member of the
defense counsel, said he believed
that if Sacco were told such methods
were to be used. he would break his
fast voluntarily.
Both Mrs. Sacco and Attorney
Musmanno planned to visit the con-
demned men again today and make
new attempts to induce Sacco to
take nourshment. The lawyer re-
ported that the prisoner was very
weak and might soon be forced to
remain in bed unless he began TAX
ing nourishment.
Sacco's children. Dante, 10, and
1nez, 7. have been staying at the
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