The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-19
VANzET7I And
SACCO.APPEAL
7OU. 5. court
Lawyers Ask Chief Justice
Hall to Grant Stay of
Execution.
RESPITE ENDS TUESDAY
All Hope for Victory Before
J Massachusetts Bench
Is Lost.
RESPITE ENDS TUESDAY
By HENRY MINOTT

TTcSS
BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 19.-The
Massachusetts Supreme Court to-
day denied Bartolomeo Vanzetti
and Nicola Sacco their latest ap-
peal and defense attorneys turned
to their last legal resort-the SUI
preme Court of the United States.
Lawyers left for Fitchburg i'm
mediately after the Supreme Court
ruled, to ask Chief Justice Walter
Perley Hall of the Massachusetts
Superior Court for a stay of sent
ence to enable them to carry the
case before the United States Su-
preme Court.
Writ Is Sought.
Later today, Attorney Michael
Angelo Musmanno of the defense
is expected to leave for Washington
to file with the nations highest
court petition for q writ of GER
tiorari.
In a decision reached after only
forty eight hours deliberation, the
full bench overruled exceptions from
Justice George A. Sanderson's de-
nial of a writ of error, and from
trial Judge Webster Thayer's denial
of motions for new trial, revocation
of sentence and stay of execution.
The two anarchists will be put to
death early Tuesday unless an
eleventh hour appeal to the United
States Supreme Court succeeds.
The decision. written by Acting
Chief Justice Henry K Braley, stat
ed that the full bench had consid-
cred "alI questions presented by the
J defendants insofar as they are per-
tinent," and that there appeared to
be no grounds for reversing any of
the decisions at issue.
Analyze Whole Case
Every appeal made by the defense
during the years that the case has
been before the State courts was
analyzed and discussed in the de-
cision.
Attorney Michael Angelo Mus
nanno of the defense went to the
state prison this noon to inform
Sacco and vanzetti that they had
lost their fight in the State courts.
Both prisoners were eating when
the lawyer arrived.
Musrnanno told Vanzetti first.
The one-time fish peddler stared
ut him with glazed eyes.
Possibly Crazed
at knew it, I knew it'll" Vanzetti
exclaimed. "Get the million men!
Who's making all this noise around
here?"
Musmanno later expressed the
opinion that vanzetti's mind had
become affected by the strain Of
waiting in deaths shadow
Sacco heard the news calmly.
"Ndr. Sacco, you are strong man
are you not?" Musmanno asked.
"You know i am a strong man."
the prisoner replied.
'I am sorry to have to tell you
that the courts decision is against
you," said the lawyer.
Sacco Grim
1--WE expected It," was Sacco's
calm response.
Vanzetti was waiting expectantly
for an early visit from his sister
Luigia, who came to New York
from italy today aboard the Aqui-
tania.
A touching scene was enacted in
the barber shop of the prison yes
terday when Sacco greeted his 13-
year-old son, Dante.
Dante, i want you to work for
humanity" Sacco said. Life is not
to be spent working for gold and
riches. They mean nothing after
all, and bring you no happiness
A protest meeting of Sacco- Van
xetti sympathizers, held last night
at the Scenic Auditorium, In the
Back Bay, was conducted without
Intervention by police. who had
stopped two previous meetings.
Tonight, members of the defense
committee were to confer with rep
resentatives Of trade unions and
yraternal organizations in an effort
TO institute a general strike Mon
day.