The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-15


should report to Comrade Fralkin at
the District Office, 1O6 East 14th st.
The work is very important and must
be attended to at once.
indication being that the bandits were
trying to make their way toward
Providence, R. I. Mr.. James, who has
made study of the bandit cars
route, declares that the real bandits
must have given at least three weeks
preparation to the hold-up. The last
seen of the bandit car, according to
reliable witnesses, was on the road
thru the woods, near North Slough
ton. The defense urges that the ban
dts came from Providence in a Hud-
son car; that they picked up the Buick
car in which the robbery was COM
mitted in the North Stoughton
woods; that they returned to the
North Stoughton woods and changed
back to the Hudson car, one of the
gang not engaged in the robbery driv-
ing off in the Buick.
1t was while going over this ground
that we came to South Stoughton,
where "The Three K" of Kelly Shoe
Factory is located. 1t was here that
Sacco worked, one of kelly's best fac
tory hands. South Stoughton is a mere
spot on the map. The factory stands
alone on knoll, monument to the
effort of the owners of industry to
take their factories out of the great
cities, where the workers are better
able to get together and fight in their
own interests. It was. shortly after
twelve o'clock, everyone was home
eating dinner, and the factory was
locked. The cottage where Sacco
lived with Rosa, his wife, and Dante,
his son, could be seen from the main
road, in the rear, of the Kelly man
sion, in spite of the, trees and the
shrubbery surrounding it. Here Sacco
read his books, enjoyed life with his
family, worked in the garden and
toiled in the factory, one of Kelly's
best "hands." Dante might still be
playing with Kelly's son, had spent
all his time in the garden and the
factory, instead of deyoting some of
it TO books, drawing him into the Gal
leani group Of italian radical work
men, which also brought him into the
struggles of the workers generally.
Michael Kelly, one of the factory
owners, testified to the good charac-
ter of Sacco at the trial, but his
brother, George Kelly, trying to in
gratiate himself with the prosecution,
testified that the cap found near the
robbery looked like cap that Sacco
Used to hang near his machine while
working in the factory. These New
England factory owners certainly take
a keen interest in their slaves. when
it is to their advantage.
Car Planted In the Woods.
From here we went to Manley Road,
to the Marley House and the Man
ley Woods. 1t was on an unfrequented
road in Manley Woods that Charles
Fuller, newspaperman, and Max
Wind, shoe manufacturer, while out
horseback riding, found an abandoned
car. They just "felt instinctively" that
it was the bandit car. They phoned
from the Manley Home to the police
at Brockton, who arrived and decided
they had made a great find. The fact
that the bandit car was supposed to
have been green and the car in the
woods turned out to be blue, made no
difference. When found the car in the
woods showed no bullet holes. Some
one remedied this shortcoming by put
ting bullet thru the door, the day
after it was found. No effort was
made to take any fingerprints on the
car. Instead it was handled by all
and sundry and finally driven off to
Brockton.
But what was more important for
the frame-up, it was charged in the
trial that tire marks had been found
near the bandit car that conceded
with tire marks found in the little
garage at the home of Cocecci, friend
of Sacco and Vanzetti, near by.
Instead of having the real bandits
change cars in the North Stoughton
woods, as the testimony showed, the
prosecution has fake car discovered
in the Marley woods, 10 miles away
in order to bring it near the home of
Peruccio Cocaccio, which the frame
up gang sought to develop as "phe
Bandits House"
If the frame-up crowd couldn't
prove that Cocacci's house contained
printing plant for the publication of
radical literature in the troublous
days of 1919-1920; if they couldn't
prove that il contained plant for the
manufacture of "bombs" that were
supposed to have been used in the
New York Wall Street affair, at the
home of Attorney General Mitchell
Palmer, in Washington, and other
places, they might aucceed in con-