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The Washington times., 1927-08-23

The State contends both men
displayed consciousness of guilt"
when arrested. Defense counsel
claimed the men lied about their
whereabouts on the day OF the
crime in order to cover up activi-
ties in distribution of radical liter
ature. arrest for which they
thought they had been appre.
hended.
State witnesses, firearns experts,
swore that the bullets removed from
the bodies of the murdered paymas.
ter and his guard were consistent
with having been fired" from pis-
tol which other witnesses, swore be-
longed to Sacco. Defense attorneys
produced what purported to be con.
trasting evidence that the bullet
could not possibly have been fired
from Sacco's pistol.
The cap identified as Sacco's was
the object of one of the most bitter
legal controversies. The State pro.
duced witnesses who swore that
holes made on the lining were caused
by Sacco's habit of hanging the cap
on a nail over his machine. De-
Tense countered by presenting evil
dence that the Braintree chief Of
police had made the holes in exanin.
ing the cap for means Of identified.
ton.
To afford safety on motorboats
an automatic safety valve has been
designed to be Installed at the
carbureter intake to trap. burning
gases in event of backfire.
The Washington times., 1927-08-23
Auto Repair Wagon in
Crash. / Badly Hurt

A trouble wagon belonging to
Carts garage. 62s H st. n. w, on
the way to Fourteenth and Clifton
Streets Northwest, met trouble at
Thirteenth and Quincy Streets
Northwest today when it coIlided
with another automobile. causing
both machines 10 overturn.
The wagon, operated by Edward
H, NThaden. Is years old, an en-
ploye of the garage, colIided with an
automobile operated by Ernest EN-
inert, Is. 1901 Thirteenth st. n. W..
police say. Both machines were
badly damaged and Emmert was
treated at Garfield Hospital for
brush burns to the legs, arms and
The Washington times., 1927-08-23
Too Young for Marines,
Boy Is Off to See World

Too young to- join the Marines,
Pete Triantafillos, 15.year-old Wash
ington school boy STARTED out Fri
day to see the world on his own
hook.
His father. Louis Triantafiilos,
proprietor Of a hat-cleaning estab.
lishment at 725} Second st. n. w.
reported the boys absence to po-
lice, and requested that word be
sent to Baltimore authorities.
Before leaving, Pete told neigh.
borhood chums that he intended
visiting Baltimore. He wore a blue
suit. white blouse, lemon colored
sweater, tan shoes and no cap.
The Washington times., 1927-08-23
So WEEDS 1e

NEW YORK, Aug. ga Peter
Antoinetti is 81. Viola C. viii is
10. They came here yesterday
from their homes in Astoria and
were married.
The Washington times., 1927-08-23

The cap was found on the scene
OF the crime. Fellow workers of
Sacco.s identified the cap as one
which the shoe worker had hung
on the aforementioned nail driven
IN q wall by the side Of a machine
upon which he worked.
But this was only one of mum
Der Of material points over which
state and defense counsel were at
variance during the trial. Others
included:
Identification Of the payroll
bandits. State witnesses indenti-
fled Sacco and Vanzetti as having
been in the murder automobile
which sped away from the scene
after the shooting. Defense wit.
nesses swore Sacco was in Boston
at the time and that Vanzetti was
in Plymouth.
The Washington times., 1927-08-23
Cowgirl Is TranlpIed,
But Returns to RodeO

CHICAGO. Aug. %. Claire
Beacher, cowgirl of Fort Worth,
Tex, was injured at the rodeo
Yesterday at Soldiers Field when
her horse fell and threw her over
its head in the cowgirIs' relay.
Before she could rise the horse
kick her in the head. Then an
other animal trampled her. The
girl was extricated from the horses
hoofs and rushed to the Wesley
Memorial Hospital.
After having her injuries dressed,
doctors said her condition would
permit her to return to the rodeo,
which she did.
The Washington times., 1927-08-23

1t was on April is, 1920, that
robbers shot to death Frederick A
Parmenter, paymaster of the Slater
and Morrill, Shoe CO., and his
guard. at South BraIntree, Mass,
and took several thousands of dol.
lars which they were carrying.
On May 5. police arrested Nicola
Sacco, stoughton shoe worker,
and Bartolomeo Nanzetti. a
Plymouth fish dealer, both known
to have entertained radical tenden.
cies. Immediately. the two men
started a fight to regain their
liberty, basing their defense on
mistaken identity.
The two were indicted on Sep
TENDER II, 1920. and the trial
opened at Dedham on Nav 81,
1921. Taking the stand, each &C.
cused admitted he was a radical.
In short order, the jury brought
in a verdict of guilt in first de-
gree but sentence was delayed by
Judge Webster Thayer, presiding.
until motions for new trial could
be heard.
Defense Organizes
1t was while this motion was
pending that Sacco. Vanzetti de.
Tense committee was formed-and
which was subsequently to wage
seVen-year fight for freedom of
the two accused men. The motion
for a new trial was heard and de.
Mad n nono
the same date the first Sacco. Van.
zetti demonstration was staged, it
being in the form of a protest by
workers at Milan, Italy,
Bombing then became the method
OF protest adopted by sympathizers
who accused the court of persecut.
ing the men because of their radical
leanings. Bombs were placed un.
der the American Embassy in Paris
and Buenos Aires and then followed
more in Monteyideo and other
places in Europe, Mexico and South
America.
In March. 1928, Arthur Hill, de.
tense attorney. accused Judge
Thayer Of prejudice. Supplement-
ary motions for new trials were
entered and in October and Novem-
Der, 1923, arguments were heard.
Meanwhile both Sacco and Vanzetti
started hunger strikes, Sacco at
tempted to commit suicide and fin.
ally was examined by board of
alienssts. He was found to be in.
sane Nanzetti's sanity was also
questioned but was found to be
sound.
Madeiros Enters Case
After several changes in defense
counsel had been made. due 10 dis.
satisfaction. Celestino Madeiros en-.
tered in the case in January, 1926.
Already under sentence OF death for
another murder. he confessed" that
the Morelli gang. of which he was
a member, had committed the mur.
ders for which Sacco and Vanzetti
were condemned. On the basis of
this. defense counsel for Sacco and
Vanzetti asked a new trial without
result, however.
Then followed sentence of the
two men. They were, to die in the
chair on July 10. So insistent were
protests received by Governor Full.
Ter, however, that he appointed a
special advisory board to investigate
charges that Judge Thayer had
been influenced against the men.
The hoard. on July 25, returned
report unfolding the trial. and on
August 3 Governor Fuller refused
executive clemency. !.
With the date Of execution set
for August 10. a respite OF 12 DAYS
was granted to permit defense conn.
sci 70 carry their Gaze before the
full bench Of the Massachusetts,
Supreme Court, A new trial aga in
denied. and executive clemency re-
fused. sacco and Vanzetti died In
the electric chair.
The Washington times., 1927-08-23
DIVORCES FER EAp

CHICAGO. Aug. 2S.-- MRS. Philippe
Browne.G Grippe Carter Hayden. 30. to-
day was seeking divorce from
Earle Fentcn HAYDEN. attorney and
scion Of wealthy Columbus Ohio
family on grounds Of cruelty,
The Washington times., 1927-08-23
z Year Fight Made
for Radicals

How the execution of shoe maker and fish peddler by
regular court procedure sent remor around the world
resulting in millions of dollars of property damage and the
taking of many lives is barred by the records of the Sacco
Vanzett which terminated last night at switchboard
in the Charlestown prison in Boston
The Washington times., 1927-08-23

White House Visitors
Are Searched

Guard Take Special Pre-
cnutions Against Out
bursts By Radicals
The Washington times., 1927-08-23
.EII3HB0RS
AROUSED
BY CRIES

ny international News ssryies
BOSTON, Aug. %. Pierc-
ing shrieks rs-echoed through
South Russell Street, West
End, as Nicola sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti went to
their doom this. morning.
Get News By Phone
In the South Russell Street
apartment Of friends, Miss LUCIA
vanzetti, who had crossed the
seas from Italy to bid farewell to
her "Barto," and Mrs. Rose Sacco,
the brave and loyal wife of
"Barto's" comrade, received the
terrible news. 1t was relayed to
them by telephone from States
Prison. across the Charles River
in Charlestown.
Awake NeighbOrhOOd
The cries OF anguish Of the two
grief-stricken women. perhaps the
most pathetic figures in the Sacco
and Nanzetti case, awoke the neigh
borhoOd. Many residents went to
the streets.
A crowd soon gathered outside
the apartment house. A detail of
police kept the crowd. at respect
full distance from the house. Later
members Of the Sacco-Vanzettf de-
Tense committee arrived to console
Miss VanZetti and Mrs. Sacco.
Death Watch Is Kept
Death watches" had been kept at
the two Sacco-V anzetti headquar-
tiers. AT the old committee head
quarters in modest building on
Hanover Street in the North End
more than 100 men and women
gathered Everys race and creed.
every walk in life, gathered to hear
the word that. the two men had gone
into eternity. This six years of
labor by the defense committeeman
and women was over-they had lost.
Aldino Felicani, who organized
the committee, nerYously paced back
and forth across the little room with
its wooden tables and single bat
tered typewriter, from which had
come reams of copy for the press.
Miss Mary Donovan, an ardent de-
Tense worker. almost tainted when
the words they are dead" were
pronounced.
At the new defense headuua rters
in hotel on Beacon Hill beside the
State house-the citizens national
committee. organized by Province
town artists-the news from the
death house at Charlestown was
awaited in silence. It was received
in silence.
Their Efforts Failed
A short time after the notifica.
ton came that Sacco and Vanzetti
were dead. three eminent lawyers
walked in. They were John F.
Finerty. of Washington; William
Schuyler Jackson, former attorney
general of New York State. and
BENJAMIN r. Spellman, one of
Harry Thaw's attorneys. They had
staged a gallant eleventh hour"
attempt to secure a writ of habeas
corpus on the ground OF an al
legged conspiracy between the Fed
elal Department of Justice and the
Norfolk county district attorney at
the time OF the sFRed" raid in 1920.
They also charged suppression of
evidence.
Turned down by Justice James "a.
Lowell, of the United States dis
tfict court. they tried to secure an
airplane to fly TO Williamstown,
where Judge George A. Anderson,
Of the United States circuit court
of appeals is attending the Institute
of Politics. They could not get a
pie ne. they said.
The last lega! card was unplayed.
The Washington times., 1927-08-23
Sacco Sent to Chair
By Old Torn Cap

When Vanzetti died in the electric chair last
night rusty nail used for hanging and hats
nj small degree responsible
For BY virtue Of small holes the inside Of
said blythe belonged Sacco that the two
were incriminaed the South Braintree murders and
robbery a# a..<.r +#.
The Washington times., 1927-08-23
TOKYO GUARDS EMBASSY

TOKYO. Aug. pa strong guard
was maintained over the United
States embassy today as the result
Of communist threats over the exc
entien sof Sacco and Vanzetti.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-27
McNEAL

Mr. and Mrs Abraham Pipher re-
ceived word Wednesday of the death
of their daughter, Mrs. Frank Brich-
enstaff, in California. Mrs. Brichen-
staff had been in poor health for some
time. She was quite we'll known in
Douglas where the family resided be-
fore going to California.
Mrs. j. T. Leeson left Friday for
Los Angeles and other California points
to visit relatives for a few weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Wickstrom and
children, of Douglas, were dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. III. C. Stolp
Saturday evening.
number of Douglas people attend
ed church service here Thursday eve
ming, including Rev o. l.. Enyeart
Ruth Enyeart, Chas. Long, Mr.. Holden,
John Slaughter, Elbert Schlotzhauer,
Tom Negri, Louis Good, Louise Scott
Martha Good and Irene Taylor.
Mr.. and Mrs e. II. Taylor, Mrs.
Maude McGarry, Miss Mildred Long and
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-27


were here Thursday en- route to Cali
fornia. Mrs. Bach and brother, VIM
Diers own land near Pearce.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Choate and Miss
Susie Liebenthal. of Dos Cabezas,
We're dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs
rom Price Friday, stopping over for
the dance in the evening.
Mrs. ]. M. Christensen and baby
have returned from Los Angeles,
where the baby was operated upon
some time ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Page and Har-
ry Saxon have returned from Eel Paso
where they attended the cattlemen's
convention.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Y. Smith, of Pearce
were guests of the Morgan family
Sunday.
Wilcox visitors in Tucson this week
included r. w. Robinson, Deputy
Sheriff Moore, Mr.. and Mrs. p. w.
Hamilton.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-27
Vews Notes From Sulphur Springs Valley

Mr.. and Mrs. Gail Faulkner spent
Wednesday evening with the Stolp
family, playing bridge.
r. j. Leeson was a business visitor
in Douglas Wednesday.
Prof and Mrs. Gail Faulkner, Mrs.
Maude McGarry and Mrs. H. c. Stolp
were shopping in Douglas Friday and
attended the movie in the evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whitaker received
500 chicks from Texas Wednesday.
Carl Dannelly was out of school Fri
day because of illness.
Miss Louise Scott, of Douglas, is the
guest of Miss Mildred Long for a
few days
The boys manual training class and
the girls sewing and basketry club en-
joyed an outing at Castle Dome Satur-
day. Frof Faulkner, Miss Long and
Mrs. McGarry accompanied them on
the trip.
Mrs. Maude McGarry spent the week
end in Douglas.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-27

Jesus Martinez, Harrette Smith and
Maria Torrez. First grade, perfect
attendance, Annadale Bryant, Antonio
Siquieroz, Eliza Torrez and Helen
Guerra; honor roll, Arthur Martinez,
Annadale Bryant, Hughes Mckinney
and Helen Guerra Second grade,
perfect attendance, James Burnett,
Robert Burnett, Isadore Duran, Clara
Lopez, Antonio Palma, Lutgarda Tor
rez and Edward Estes; honor roll,
James Burnett, Robert Burnett, Isa-
dore Duran, Clara Lopez and Maria
Cordova. Third grade, perfect at
tendance, Frank Ellsworth, Severe
Palma, Severe Torrez and Rosalie
Phillips; honor roll, Gladys Comalli,
Rosalie Phillips.
Miss Lydia Young, principal. Fourth
grade, perfect attendance, Lupe Lopez,
ollie Hudson and Francis Guerra;
honor ROLL Frances Guerra and Sole
dad Lopez. Fifth grade perfect at
tendance, Husta Torrez. Sixth grade,
Isabel Espino and Janet Bryant; honor
roll Marjorie Mckinney, Janet Bryant,
Tito Gutierrez and Isabel Espino.
Seventh grade, perfect attendance,
Lora Smith; honor roll, Herbert
Duarte and Ivan Mckinney Eighth
grade, perfect attendance, Bennie
Hudson and Charles Phillips; honor
roll Charles Phillips and Bennie
Hudson.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-27
GLEESON

Mr. and Mrs John Gleeson and
Mr.. Jacobson motored to Bisbee Sat
urday. 8
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ F. Ryan and son
spent Saturday in Bisbee
Fannie Geers has been visiting
Mrs. Maggie Parrish this week.
Misses Geraldine Lee and Nettie
Preston attended the Masonic dance
in Tombstone Thursday.
Mrs. Shirley White spent the week.
end in Bisbee.
Mr. and Mrs. J. w Bennie, of the
Shannon Copper company, returned
to their home here this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Young Short and
family are back after a years abb
sence.
John Perotti, of Courtland, is no
longer leasing here.
Marvin Sallivan, of Courtland
was here looking after business
interests this week.
Mrs. Jasper Gibson and son spent
several days this week with an old
friend, Mrs. c. Mckinney, at Court
land
Mr. and Mrs Bert White and
family attended the show in Bisbee
Sunday
George Gibson and nephew spent
Sunday in Tombstone.
D. A. Markey spent several days
in Tombstone this week.
Mrs. l.. NJ. Brown and children,
of Tombstone, and Mrs. L. v. Cole
and son, of Douglas, spent Saturday
here visiting friends.
Miss Geraldine Lee and mother
spent the Weekend in Benson.
Mrs. VIM. Cummings and Mrs.
Jasper Gibson motored to Douglas
this week
Mrs w. Johnson, of Manzanola,
Col, is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Fl. Christensen and family.
Messrs. Jiroux and Woods, Of Mayer,
spent the past week here looking
after mining property.
Mrs VIM. Cummings and son were
Courtland visitors Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis Crozier, of
Tombstone, spent Sunday here with
Mrs. Crozier's parents Accompanied
by Mr. and Mrs VIM. Saundercock
the party motored to Wilcox Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Gamble and
son and Mrs Cabell, of Courtland,
attended Sunday school here last
Sunday.
Mrs. Ralph Cowan and son spent
Thursday here with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. w. j. Geers. !.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-27
LIGHT

Glen Roether, who is employed on
home.
Harry Mills and Orville Heistand
were Pearce visitors Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Ingle and Mr..
and Mrs. Ike Price were Tombstone
visitors Saturday on business.
Sherman Ingle has returned from
Miami and is staying with hisbrother,
Dave Ingle
Mr. and Mrs. Henry. Price were
dinner guests of Mrs. Mary Price
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. F. w. Hulse and
Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight Hulse left
Thursday for Riverside, Cal, to make
their home.
Mrs A Kambitsch and son were
shopping in McNeal Thursday.
Bill Kambitsch has been employed
for the past week by Frank Geers
at Gleeson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Clifford, OF
Mascot, were visitors at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. j. F. Eisenhart
Sunday.
Henry and Lora Bean went to
Pearce, Douglas and Bisbee last week
Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Williams spent
Fthe weekend with Mr.. and Mrs
A. c. Bean.
Ed Powell and Robert Grantham
came out from Douglas Friday, A. b
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-27
ST. DAVID

John s. Merrill Sr., has returned
! home after spending the past few
| weeks in Tombstone as. court bailiff.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jones have
! returned to their home in Tucson.
Charles Merrill, of Bisbee visited his
| mother here, going OH 20 Stafford hop
ing to benefit his health by change
of climate
Miss Daisy Curtis, Vernon Curtis and
Ruin Brimhall motored to Thatcher
and Stafford Saturday returning sun
day
Mrs. Ed T. Lofgreen has returned
home from the hospital at Bisbee and
is improving very rapidly.
Mrs. Beatrice Miller, who has been
confired to her bed for the past week
is improving.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Curtis, of SAT-
ford, old time residents of st. David,
visited Rhoda Merrill at the Curtis
ranch thtis week.
Lo Wright is installing service
station in connection With his store,
which. will be a great help to the COM
munity.
Kenney Gardner is in the hospital
his teeth.
News has been received from Miami
that Jess Benton is seriously i'll with
pneumonia. Edward Benton returned
Thursday from Miami, where he had
been with his brother.
Mrs. Margam Wamsley and children
and Mr.. and Mrs. Wamsley, of Stafford
arrived here this week, the latter re-
turning home and the former re-
naming with her sister Rhoda Merrill,
who will celebrate her Goth birthday
April 20.
Martha and Walter Riggs and Mark
Hartsfield spent Sunday at the home Of
their uncle, Bert Smith, on the mesa.
News has been received from Bis
bee of the birth of son to Mr. and
Mrs. Oral Daily. Mrs Daily was for
merly Miss Lucille Goodman, of ST.
David.
Ed Eisman has returned from a visit
in Superior with MIR. and Mrs. Pete
Stockwell.
Mr. and Mrs Mark Miller and fam
lily have moved to Wilcox where they
have leased a ranch.
Mrs. Carrie Woods died suddenly
Thursday morning while preparing
breakfast Funeral services We're held
Thursday evening and interment was
made in Tucson. Mrs. Woods had been
a resident of ST. David for many years.
She is survived by her husband, who
is about 90 years of age, two sons
in st. David, one in Tucson and one in
Texas.
Mrs Rhoda Merrill and sister, Mrs.
Wamsley, spent Monday at the home
of their old time friend Mrs. Sarah
D. Curtis.
H. O. Post has purchased the bus line
from Pastime park to Tucson and
Will move his family there shortly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus ST. Clair have
moved to the Apache Powder plant
where Mr.. st. Clair is employed.
Clarence Post and family and Har-
ry Rishworth attended the rodeo at
Wilcox.
County Agent Armstrong made a
demonstration here this week on the
destruction of gophers
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-27
WEBB
WHITEWATER

The annual celebration of the L.
d. S. Relief society was held at the
church in Webb Friday evening with
q good attendance. The entertafn-
ment was followed by refreshments
and dance for the Young people
The rabbit drive at whitewater
Saturday was followed by a dance at
the L D. S. church for the benefit
of the drivers. There was a good
attendance in spite of the power
mass meeting at Light.
Ralph Noble was operated upon
ct the G.. & A. hospital in Warren
Saturday He is doing nicely.
The mass meeting at McNeal Sat-
urday night was interesting to the
farmers who went there to learn what
they could about the power plant
for the valley.
A number of farmers met at the
ranch of Frank Davis Thursday after
noon as a demonstration meeting had
been announced, and the farmers were
to get their poisoned grain. AS the
county agent did not appear the
farmers returned to their homes dis
appointed, but they are hopeful of
a meeting at some future time.
Mrs. Frank Davis and children
motored to Douglas Thursday, where
Miss Helen is taking electrical treat
| ments.
i Mrs. Josephine McGee and brother
are guests of their brother and wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. McGee, at Webb.
| G. Fl. Kelly is spending the week
end with his brother at Whitewater.
Mrs. A. w. Bouldin spent the week.
end at her home in Whitewater
! with her husband.
p. w Wells motored to Douglas
to spend the week end with his
family
| An old Mexican who had been in
the neighborhood for several days
was. hired by A. McGee to grub
stumps on his place Wednesday, and
road with his burros. 1t being a
cold night McGee told him to make
his bed in the garage, which he did.
The next morning he was found dead
! by Mr.. MCGEE and Joe Blalack. 1t
was suggested that there had been
/ foul play, but coroners jury found
that he had died from natural causes
Frank Marshall was a Tombstone
visitor Monday.
Mrs. Rulda,. of Gleeson, was a
business visitor at Webb Monday
Mrs. A. McGee, Mrs Athena Loft
green, Mrs. Price Nelson, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Scheerer, Mrs. Wells and
Mrs. e. d. Harris were in Douglas
on various business errands Tuesday.