The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-13

1 am very anxious to get your
advice as to what lines of study to
follow in preparing myself for the
work I contemplate. I feel you could
save me much wasted effort, and
would, therefore, greatly appreciate
your opinion
"In the letter of Nov. 20, Mr.. God
dard says:
In thinking over our conversation
of the other night l realized l failed
to ask you how you secure your meas
urements in one-thousands of an inch
when you are making microscopic
study of arms and projectiles. think
you mentioned the name of special
type of microscope with which am
unfamiliar.
Calls it Stunt.
"In letter to me of June 9, 1927,
Mr.. Hamilton says:
"'If any one is to make before the
governor and his committee some ex-
periments or microscopic displays,
then l should be present, or some one
who can instantly detect any effort
to pull a misleading stunt. These
stunts can and are being done
Eat my argument before the gov
ernor l was assured by him he had
not paid any attention to Mr.. God
dard's report, and was given SIM
liar assurance by the committee. l
therefore made no argument about
Mr.. Goddard's method or his conclu-
sions.
"June 6, 1927, Mr.. Goddard called
at my office with the newspaper man
to whom l have referred. Mr.. Ehr-
mann was present and Immediately
afterward he and 1 made careful
notes of what had been said. The
newspaper man began by saying he
wished to explain his conduct. He
said Mr.. Buxton of the Herald had
urged him to notify me of the pro-
posed trip to Dedham June 8, and
that he had promised to do so, but
had relied upon Prof. Gill. He adj
mitted he had not asked Prof. Gill to
notify me that Mr.. Ranney was to
attend, and that a stenographer was
to be present.
"He admitted, in answer to my
question, that at the first interview
he had expressed the opinion to me
that Hamilton was a crook. He con-
! firmed the correctness of my original
statement to him about my attitude
toward the proposed experiment, as
above stated.
To Get Publicity.
"Mr. Goddard then said that before
making HIS experiment he had seer
at Bridgeport, Conn, certain photo.
graphs taken by a government ex.
pert, and had formed from them 6
preliminary opinion adverse to Sacco
He said that while he could not be
sure, he might have communicated
this adverse opinion to Mr.. RanneS
before Mr.. Ranney consented to per
NIT the experiment. He said he haC
not been paid anything Ny anybody
for interesting himself in the case
or for making the experiment.
'He added his only motive was tt
elucidate the truth, and also to ge
such advertising personally for him
self and his methods as he could ge
| by connecting himself with the case
/ He repeated this. statement severa
times. | asked him whether, in 1924
when he sought Hamilton's assfs
lance in preparing himself to be al
expert, he doubted Hamilton's mora
integrity, and he said he did not a
that time, but that his doubts ha,
arisen subsequently,.
II then called his attention to tn
opinion Of Prof. Gill and Mr.. Turner
based upon an experience 'of man,
years, that Hamilton was a man o
entire integrity, whose unpopularit,
with certain persons arose largel,
from his extreme ability and fror
his success in cases of this charac
ter as against other less qualifie
experts, and I added that in tn
course of my connection with Nj
by him in the presence of other ex
cite any suspicion of his integrity
Lack of Fairness.
81 further added / never even ha
heard any suggestion of dishonest
made against Mr.. Turner, who's
photographs were an importar
part of the defense evidence in thi
case.
"In answer to direct inquiry b
me, Mr.. Goddard said that if he kne'
Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty
would be matter of Indifference
him whether they had had ia
trial or not
Toward the end of the convers;
ton reference was made to the di
ference between the three straigl
lines placed for Identification on II
alleged mortal bullet and straigI
= lines placed for Identification on Il
: other five bullets, two from the boo
Y Of Parmenter and three from Il
s body of Beradelli.
y Mr.. Goddard stated that the edg
: of the marking on No. III. were co
d siderably more ragged than Il