Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-08-11
LAWYERS
CONTINUE
TO FIGHT
Wage Desperate Battle
To Save SaccO Van
zetti From Death.
WIN N EW POINT
Supreme Court of State
!. to Hear Appeal on Writ
= of Error.
BY HENRY MINOTT
United Press Staff Correspondent


BOSTON, Aug. 1l.-Attorneys for
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van
zetti won another skirmish in their
amazing eleventh hour legal cam
palgn today when Justice George A.
Sanderson of the Massachusetts su
preme court allowed an appeal to
the full bench Of the court from his
denial Of writ of error
Announcement that Justice San
derson had agreed to sign the bill
lot exceptions came from Attorney
General Arthur K. Reading after a
lobby conference attended by the
justice, the attorney general and
Arthur d. Hill and Elias Field Of
defense counsel.
After Governor Alvan T. Fuller s
midnight decision to grant Saceo
and Nanzetti a II day respite--to
and including August cit was
announced that the justices Of the
state supreme court had been called
10 Boston for special session to
be held Monday.
= The supreme court already has
Twice ruled adversely in the Sacco.
Nanzetti case, and until last night $
surprising developments il was be
| .heved the full bench had passed on
1.-THE world famous case for the last
time.
While Hill and Field were carry.
ing on at the supreme court, anoth-
or member OF the defense counsel,
Michael Angelo Musmanno filed
with the clerk of the Norfolk SUI
perior court at Dedham bin Of ex-
eeptions TO the recent adverse rul-
ings of Judge Webster Thayer, who
presided at the trial.
No Delay Expected
~ The fact that Chief Justice Arth-
M H. Rugg of the supreme court
was still confined to Worcester
hospital today was not expected to
delay the full bench $ consideration
Of the case. 1t was reported his
condition was not serious and II was
thought he might be able TO take
the bench next week
Heartened by the knowledge that
they had at least II more days on
earth and that the fight to save
them from the chair would be
pushed wit new enthusiasm, Sacco
and Vanzetti were reported more
optimistic today. Shortly after
noon today the condemned men
tpere removed under heavy guard
from the death house, in which they
spent 10 days within a few PAGES Of
the electric chair.
Out of the little rear door and
across the grey prison yard, Sacco,
VGnzetti and Celestino Madciros,
whose execution also had been de
layed. walked with light step to the
little cells which they had previous
" occupied.
hriqht summer sun shone upon
them as they moved on their strange
march from the low walled building
to the comparatively cheerful 'Cher
ny Hill. -
Receivers Spirits
l-..Even Sacco, the mild hammered
little man who had wished to de
as martyr to the cause OF rad,
ealism, seemed to have lost some OF
Ne stolid pose that marked MN "s
an inmate of the death house
His 20 days without food appear
Cd 10 have had but slight effect on
Saeco and he walked with firm
tread over the path that led him
back to his former cell. ~
Vanzetti, the philosophical fish
peddler, was plainly cheered' ne
spoke pleasantly to the guards VINO
accompanied the three doomed mel,
hack to their old cells. He talked
with his comrade.
/ JThe third member of the strange
trio, Madeiros, was silent. Twice
convicted Of murder, his "eonfes,
sion" to the South Braintree crimes
aiscredited, he knows that he must
die and l2 more days of life seemed