Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-23
First Will Lie in State at De-
Tense NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
les of Death Masks OF Both
to Be Distributed.
TWO RADICALS FOLLOW
MADEIROS TO CHAIR
Attorneys Abandon Efforts to Gain
Respite Only When Executions
Start--Cries of Sister and Wife
Arouse Neighborhood-Prison Is
Heavily Guarded.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON. August 25.--The bodies
OF Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van
zetti are to be taken in specially con-
structed caskets through the cities OF
the East This was announced by
the Sacco-N anzetti defense commit
tee TODAY
First they are 10 lie in state at the
committee headquarters, on Hanover
street, in north end of this city.
When this will be the committee was
unable TO say at noon, as they had
not been informed at that time when
the bodies would be turned over to
them by Medical Examiner Magrath.
The visits TO various cities might eX
tend as far as Chicago, it was added.
The body OF Celestino Madeiros,
who was executed with them at the
State prison early today. will be de-
livered TO a New Bedford under
taker. This is at the request of his
mother
The Charlestown district and all
other parts of Boston were quiet to-
day. An echo of the last-minute
demonstrate in sympathy with
Sacco and Vanzetti came with the
arrangement in the Municipal Court
of pickets arrested in front of the
statehouse.
Death Masks to Be Made.
Mrs. Glendower Evans. who has
been active in the SaccoVanzetti de.
Tense, said today that death masks
would be made Of both men and many
copies distributed. She visited the
Northern Mortuary, where the bodies
were taken from the State prison, but
Medical Examiner Magrath said he
was too busy at that hour to admit
her or her companion. William Crop
per. a New York artist.
, 1t was learned today that among the
personal effects left in the prisoners
cells were letters written by Vanzetti
10 his father in Italy and to Henry
Ford and by Sacco to his mother and
10 the defense committee. They have
not been made public.
Sacco and Vanzetti died calmly
shortly after midnight in the electric
chair at the Charlestown State Prison
protesting their innocence of the
crime. affirming their belief in an
archy and refusing the benefits Of re-
ligion.
In his native tongue Sacco shouted,
".ons live anarchy" as he seated him.
self in the death chair. u am an in
nccent man" were among the last
words of Vanzetti.
The two were convicted of killing
Frederick A Parmenter, paymaster,
and Alexander Berardelli, guard, and
robbing them of S15,776.51 on street
at South Braintree, Mass, April Is,
1920.
Follow Madeiros to Chair.
Celestino Madeiros. sentenced for
the murder of a Wrentham bank
cashier, preceded TO the chair by
few minutes the two men whom he
had attempted to save by confession
that he was present at the crime of
which they were convicted, and that
neither Sacco nor Vanzetti was there
This confession was used as the basis
for a motion for a new trial, but was
discredited
Up TO the hour set for the execution.
and even later. the seven-year legal
end Fanzetu had continued When
every court and legal recourse had
been exhausted, defense attorneys still
strove to find new means of gaining
respite for the condemned. men. Four
attorneys Fastening by automobile to
Wiiliamstown TO lay an appeal for
stay before Justice George w. Ander-
son Of the United States Circuit Court
turned back only when they heard by
telephone that Madeiros and Sacco al.
ready had been executed and that the
fate or NanZetti was a matter of min
ntes Then at last the defense counsel
finally admitted defeat
From his cell in the death house
Madeiros. the first of the three to be
called. walked the few feet TO the
chair in the execution chamber with.
out show Of emotion He walked
steadily and seemed Indifferent to his
fate. He entered the chamber .
minutes AZ seconds after midnight, and
At minutes IS seconds past the hour
he was dead. He spoke no word and
gave no sign of recognition OF any of
the witnesses.
Sacco Says Farewell
In 4 few moments the second death
house cell was emptled and Sacco
walked 10 the execution room Pale
hun apparently strong and vigorous
and quite alert and collected he
stepped to the chair and as he sat
down shouted in a ringing voice, Viva
L'Anarchia."
While the straps were being ad-
justed he spoke in English in a more
moderate tone, Farewell. my wife and
child and All my friends" After a
pause, he looked around at the silent
witnesses of the State and said, Good
evening gentlemen" His final words
spoken as the head strap was tight
ened, were Farewell, mother" He
had entered the chamber at 12:11:l-
and was pronounced dead at 1@:l9:02.
once more two guards LETT the cham
her and returned with Nanzetti. He
was the most collected Of the three
end seemed quite at ease as he entered
lie shook hands just inside the door
with guard whom he recognized anc
then Srasped the hands of others as
he walked to. the chair. Without z
culver he took his place and said: 81
wish to tell you ] am innocent and
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