Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-22
GOVERNOR VISITS
REDS IN PRISON
SacCo and Vanzetti Hold
Separate interviews
With Executive.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, July 22.-Gov. Alvan I
Fuller, in whose hands, with the coz
sent of the executive council. lies tn'
hardening power, visited the Statt
prison today ard interviewed Nlcolo
Sacco and Bartolomeo Nanzettl' un
der sentence of death for murder. lie
also talked with Celestlno MaueiIos
awaiting electrocution for anotnei
murder, who has asserted that mem
hers of a gang with which he was as
sociated committed the murders OIL
which Sacco and NanZetti were con
vlcted. x,,;,,.o -,
In the office of Warden William
Hendrv. who was present during the
interviews, the governor first talked
for Is minutes with Madeiros ana tneI
FOR the same length of time win
Sacco. Then Vanzetti was calieo III
Vanzetti Carries Notes.
yanzetti as he entered the office
had in his hand two or three sheets
of paper, apparently covered WIFI
notes. 1t was evident that he hao
more TO say to the governor thah 'he
other two prisoners.
II was the first time that Sacco ahd
yanzetti. whose case has echoeu
through several continents, hao seen
daylight since they were taken ~ .tie
state prison from the Dedham jail the
first of this month. .h;oh
Spite of their hunger strike "Ilicll
has continued since SUNDAY nIoi ma
last they appeared to be IN 6oou
,,hvs;cal condition and walked with
Arm step. The strike was begun as
nrotest against what the men co1lsIu-
ered excessive secrecy surrounonis
the governors personal investigatloti
into their case. the Sacco-Nanzetu oe-
Tense committee has announced.
Protest Is Planned.
As the men were brought from their
cells. one by one, each was accom-
panied by a deputy warden ana
prison guard. They were not manu-
Cuffed. oo~,-
r,ittee saving that the committee was
chosen Sunday, July 81, as the GATE
for IAN international profess" aGains'
tba execution of SaCco and Nanzetu.
were distributed in Massachusetts TO-
day. They called on friends OF the two
men to assemble on that day. Inc
committee has applied for a permit TO
hold a parade in Boston on July 81, but
decision has not yet been mace
whether it will be granted.
Vanzetti left the wardens once
after talking with the governor Tor an
hour. Gov. Fuller left the prison
few minutes later, after telling news
paper men that he had nothing TO say
about the interview.
Had Given Up Hope.
Prior to the governors visit Sacco
was reported to have given up nope
for the first time in the seVen-year
fight that he and his fellow prisoner
have waged to prove. their innocence
of the double murder which they
we're convicted.
He so told his wife, Mrs. Rose
Sacco, yesterday when she visited the
Charlestown State Prison, where ne
and Vanzetti are hunger striking IN
protest against the secrecy or GOV.
Alvan T. Fuller's investigation OF
their case.
Moved by the interview, Mrs. Sacco
left the prison with the announce
ment that her husband had "given
up all hope"
Committee Studies Data.
'If the governors hearings were
public that might give him courage
but he feels that the secrecy Is a
bad sign," she added.
While the condemned men today
were in the sixth day of their self
enforced abstinence from the prison
fare, the governors advisory com
mittee was considering the volumi
nous data it had collected in a months
investigation which was concluded
yesterday.
The governor has had no comment