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

plots" the government found it pos
sible to frame them up on "a charge
of being implicated in payroll hold
ups and, with the thinnest thread of
testimony to lash them in the cleo
tric chair, where it hopes in another
week to send them to death.
South Braintree Visited.
The bullet holes are still to be seen
thru the. stained, wired glass win
dows of the shoe factory of Slater
and Morrill,, They are the sole re-
FLINDERS of the shooting that took
place here in South Braintree, April
Is, 1920, more than seven years ago.
Those shots, however, have been
heard around the entire world be-
cause the government, instead of
seeking out the real criminals, the
members of the Morelli gang of
freight car thieves and payroll ban
dts of Providence, Rhode Island,
used the incident to frame up the
two workers, Sacco and Vanzetti.
The theory of the fatal bullet,
that one of the five bullets taken
from the body of Berardelli, the muir
dered payroll guard, was fired from
the gun that Nicola Sacco was carry
ing when he was arrested on the
night of May 5, 1920, in Brockton,
has been thoroly shot to pieces. No
reputable gun expert has been found
who will swear to this testimony,
that Judge Thayer, however, passed
on as fact to the jury that brought
IN the death chair verdict
Bandit Car Wastes No Time.
We saw the spot where the bandit
car was parked, little to the east
downhill from the factory, awaiting
the appearance of the bookkeeper
and his guard with the two boxes
containing the $4,000 payroll They
appeared, two bandits began shoot
ing, the car Immediately began NOV
ing uphill, the money boxes were
thrown into it, the two bandits jump
ed into the car, and they were off,
over the tracks of the New Haven
Railroad, and down the Holbrook
Road leading to Holbrook, dropping
a rain of tacks on the road as they
went. 1t will be remembered that on
the Identification of Sacco and Van
zetti as the murderers, 95 witnesses
testified for the two workers, only SO
for the prosecution. The testimony of
every material witness of the state
of Massachusetts, as to identification,
has been completely shattered.
Perhaps the individual, so far as l
codld see as we covered the ground,
who could have proved the best iden-
LITIGATION witness for the state. was
lie Nangie, the gate tender of the
New Haven Railroad, ON dutysat the
time only short distance from
where the shooting and the robbery
took place. lie Vangie did not come
forward until long after the shooting,
as ar Identification witness.
At this late hour, he was brought
forward to testify that the bandit car
drove up to the crossing just as he
was lowering the gate. He said that
a man inside the car forced him, at
the point of revolver, to lot them
thru before the advancing rain.
lie Vangie identified Vanzetti as
driving the car, when it has already
been shown that Vanzetti does not
know Low to drive an automobile,
and has never touched steering
wheel.
But lie Vangie's testimony was
further discredited by the testimony
of Mccarthy, a locomotive fireman of
the New Haven, who testified that
three-quarters OF an hour after the
murder, lie Vangie said, There was
a shooting affair going on. | says,
Some. one shot says, Who, He
says, Some one-a fellow got muir
dered.' | said. Who did it?' He said
he didn't know, i asked him if
he knew them. He said, no, he did
not | asked him if he would know
them again if he saw them. He said
no. He said all he could see was the
gun, and he ducked." II
moreover, lie FangIe was diseredit-
ed by all the other Identification wit
nesses on both sides, who insisted that
the driver of the car was a young
small light-haired man, whereas, Van
zetti Is middle-aged, dark, with
black moustache.
Onthe whole, the alibi for Vanzetti
was overwhelming. Thirty-one eye
witnesses testified positively that
none Of the men that they saw in the
murder car was Vanzetti. Thirteen
witnesses either testified directly that
Vanzetti was in Plymouth selling fish
on the day of the murder or fur
nished confederation of such testi-
mony. Similarly for Sacco, Who was
shown to have been in the Italian
consuls office in Boston on this day
getting passport to go to Italy.
3s The Story of Madeiros.
1t is the story of Celestino Ma
deiros, who says he was a member
of the Morelli gang, that this gang
committed the robbery, and that he
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