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serted that the jurors had convicted
the men because they were radicals
and not because the evidence had
shown that they had committed the
murders.
Judge Webster Thayer, of the SUI
periOr court whose home is in Wor-
eester, presided at the trial Fred H.
Moore Of San Francisco, was chief
counsel for the defense. Sentence was
stayed pending motions for new
trial.
on December "a, 1921, Judge Thayer
denied the first of these motions. At
about the same time there occurred
the first of a series of demonstrations
in foreign countries by sympathizers
with Sacco and Vanzetti, in the form
of protest by a labor committee at
Milan, italy.
In the years that the case dragged
along there were Sacco-Vanzetti
demonstrations, some of them accom-
panied by the placing of bombs, in
the vicinity of the American embassies
at Paris and Buenos Aires, the Ameri-
can legation at Montevideo and other
places in Europe, Mexico and South
America.
Several supplementary motions for
a new trial were filed froms time to
time. In March, 1923, Arthur Hill,
one of Sacco'S counsel, said that Judge
Thayer was in no way responsible for
the delays in the case. Lengthy argu-
ments on the motions were made in
October and November, 1923. In Octo-
Der, 1924, Judge Thayer refused all
the motions.
Meanwhile Vanzetti was in the state
prison. Before his Indictment for muir
der he had Been convicted of the at
tempted robbery of, a shoe factory pay
master In Bridgewater earlier in the
same year and sentenced to a term of
II to Is years. Judge FThayer presided
at that trial also.
Sacco had been held in the Norfolk
county jail at Dedham. There IN
February and March. 1928, he conduct
ed a months hungry strike. Finally
three, alienists were called in to ex-
anime him and on their report he was
removed to the psychopathic hospital
in Boston. There he was forcibly fed
once, then abandoned the strike from
which he appeared to have suffered no
serious effects.
While in the Boston institution
Sacco attempted suicide by striking
his head against a piece of furniture.
Only a slight, wound was inflicted.
The alienists on March 81, 1928, de-
clared him sane, and he was recon-
mitteG to the Dedham Jail.
In December, 1924, the question OF
Vanzetti's sanity was brought up. In
January, 1925, he was taken to the
Bridgewater state hospital for observa-
ton. He was found sane in, April OF
that year and was returned to the
state prison.
Moore withdrew as counsel for the.
two men in November, 1924, and
Thomas F. and N. j. McAnarney, who
had been associated with him, with
drew a month later. William G.
Thompson of Boston was engaged as
counsel to argue before the Mass
achusetts supreme court an appeal
from Judge Thayer's refusal of a new
trial
Celestino Madeiros entered the case
in January, 1926. Madeiros was in the
state prison, under sentence of death
for the murder of James E. Carpenter,
a Wrentham bank cashier, in Novem-
Der, 1924 In lengthy statement he
asserted that members of the "Morelli
gang of Providence, R. l., with which
he had been associated, committed the
South Braintree murders and that
Sacco and Vanzetti had nothing to do
with the shooting.
On the basis of It's statement de-
fense counsel filed further motions for
new trial, which were denied by
Judge Thayer in october, 1926. On
the representation that he might be
needed as a witness, Madeiros thrice
was granted respites before the Mass
achusetts supreme court, which prev
iously mad overruled exceptions to
Judge Thayer's refusal to grant a new