Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-08-08
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MADE: TO
COOLIDGE.
Asked to Save Condemned
Men from Execution for
Staying.
COLLISION CHARGED
Defense Committee Says
Federal Men Aided to
u Convict Accused.
BY HENRY MINOTT
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
BOSTON, Aug. s.--An appeal It
President Coolidge based on alleged
collision between the federal de
Partment of justice aad the Norfolk
county authorities, was another step
taken today in the last minute de
Tense battle for Sacco and Nan2etti,
by the defense committee working
TO save them
The committee wired the preSi
dent 1t felt certain that the reason
for the suspicious conduct Of the
condemned men at the time of their
arrest would be explained fully by
Whe department Of justice flies which
thus far have not been made pub
hc.
1--WE submit, the appeal con.
eluded, "that justice Is information
al The world is Judging not Mass
ochusetts alone but America as q
whole in this case Especially is
this true because the United States
department of Justice is deeply in
volved. We ask You to Vindicate
the good name of American justice
n the eyes Of the world. -
Is Police broke up 4 meeting of TO-,
100 Saeeo-N anzetti sympathizers on
pston common Yesterday. The per
mt for the meeting was rescinded
because of fear OF trouble.
Four persons were arrested. One
|. them was Edward Holton James,
wealthy liberal Of Boston, who was
charged with assaulting an officer.
Sacco and Nanzctti continued
their hunger strike. 1t was Sacco 8
:2nd day without food. Mrs. Sacco
and their counsel visited the con
derhned men, spending several hours
with them.
Lose Another Battle
Attorneys for Sacco and Nanzetti
today lost a preliminary skirmish IN
their legal battle 10 save the an
<srchists from the electric chair.
Justice George A. Sanderson, OF
Massachusetts supreme court dis
missed petition for writ Of ha-
beas corpus He also denied writ
CT error.
Granting of the petition would
have resulted in the removal Of the
men from the death house but would
not have interfered with the execu.
tons. scheduled for early Thur sdav
morning.
In dismissinR the petition and de.
nying the writ, Justice Sanderson
said such actions did not come with
! ia the province of his court.
MA feature of the hearing was the
hlling of William G. Thompson, for
chief defense counsel to testify to
the contents of an affidavit which
he had signed charging prejudice by
Trial Judge Webster Thayer.
From almost the first day Of. the
trial, Thompson said Judge Thaver
appeared to be preiudiced against
Frederick Moore, counsel for the de
PENDANTS, during the first months of
their legal battle.
Describing the Judges attitude
Thompson said that when Moore
offered objection to testimony,
Judge Thayer looked at him with
\ an intense stare, then turning to one
ide with an expression that can
Ahly be described as sneer, said
COLLECTION overruled. -
pEDHAM, Mass, Aug. Shear
\Ng on Sacco - and Nanzctti-3 mot
ION for new trial was DELAYED IN
Norfolk County Superior court here
this afternoon by arguments regard
ing the question of jurisdiction.
Judge Webster Thaver, who pre-
sided at the trial more than ak
years ago claimed that neither he
nor any other superior court Judge
had jurisdiction to act in such
case after sentence of death had
been pronounced.
! ATTORNEY Arthur u. Hill, chief
\lefense counsel, opposed a plan TO
ARGUE the question of jurisdiction
before Judge Thayer but the ludg"
ruled that this question must be
argued before him.
BOSTON. Aug, S.--Governor Al
van 4. Fuller Indicated this after
noon he would not act on Nicola
SaAeo's and Rartolomeo Van2etti 8
petition for another respite until
! nending court " on in the case had
Xeen completed
N Unless such a reprieve is granted
the men will be put to death IN
the electric chair early Thursday
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