The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-08-04
FULLER DENIES
THEIR APPEAL
FOR CLEMENCY.
Massachusetts, Governor Con-
ours With Jury Which Tried
Men in 1921
TRIAL JUST AND FAIR
Counsel For Condemned Men
Work Frantically to Stay
Executions
TRIAL JUST AND FAIR

Boston, Aug. 4.-Pt-Exactly one
week from today Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo vanxetti's seven-year
battle to escape death for murder.
which has had echoes in every coun-
try on the globe. will end in the
electric chair at the Charleston state
prison unless their counsel can dis
cover an avenue Of appeal to the fed
eral courts.
That possibility is admittedly a
slender one.
Governor Alvan T. Fuller last night
in $500 word declaration definitely
closed their last hope of escape,
through Intervention of the judicial
or executive branches Of the govern
ment of the commonwealth. by reject
ing their plea for clemency.
The governor declared he concur
red with the jury which tried them
, in 1921, in the belief they were the
murderers of Frederick x. Parmeh-
ter, South Braintree paymaster, and
Alessandro Berardelli, his guard.
Men Had Fair Trial
He further asserted that the trial
Of the two had been fair and just and
that he saw no reason for granting
them a rehearing.
"As the result of my study of the
record and my personal investigation
of the case. including my interviews
with large number of witnesses,
believe, with the jury, that Sacco
and Vanzetti. were guilty and that
the trial was fair" declared Cover
nor Fuller at the conclusion Of his
long review of the case.
The South Braintree crime was
II h.
found, since the murder of the pay
(Berardelli) twas not necessary to
the robbery: the murders were ac-
coMplished first, the robbery after
!, wd$d.'
Are Jyndismayed
Sacco and Vanzetti showed no out
ward signs of dismay when they
were informed this morning Of Gov
ernor Alvan 7. Fuller's decision not
to interfere in their case.
The two men, who are now in the
death house at the Charlestown state
prison, were informed of the COVER
nor's action by William G.. Thomp-
son, chief Of the counsel q the de-
tense.
They slept last night in the shadow
of the. chair and are known to have
had faint hope that they would es-
cape the death against which they
have battled in one of the most dra-
matte episodes of Massachusetts, JUS
tice.
With them was Celesino Madeiros
whose Confession" exoneraing SaccO
aAN Vanzetti and duplicating Provi-
de4ice, r. /. gang in the murders was
unqualifiedly rejected by Governor
Fuller. He will 60 to the chair next
week on the expiration of the latest
Of q series of respites granted him
in order that his testimony might
be available in behalf of the other
Governor Under Guard
While extra guards were thrown
about the state house, the governor
the Charlest0wn state prison anC
about many Of those who have beer
connected with the celebrated case
in anticipation Of possible reprisals
counsel for all three condemned meT
worked frantically seeking new lool
holes to stay their executions.
The Sacco- vansetN defense com
mittee which has directed the fight ir
their behalf practically since th'
! start and which has expended hun
>dreds of thousands Of dollars con
tfvuted by sympathisers in ever!
quarter Of the globe, declared j
would fight until the last.
It characterized the governors de-
cision as "unbelievably brutal" as
serted that both the governor and hi
advisory committee must "justif!
themselves by reason and not b!
partisan fiat" and appealed ITO tn
millions Of people throughout tn
world who have supported them t
come forward and join US in this las
desperate effort to stay the hand O.
the judicial hangman."