Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-09

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signed "the anarchists of the world
] for the freedom of Sacco and Van
zetti," and as no such organization is
! known, they were considered the
work of cranks
| Although the letters referred to
the subway bombingS of Friday, call
ing them "only a sample" of what
+: would happen "if our comrades are
/; not set free,' New York police said
/ they were still without conclusive
evidence that the bombings we're the
work of Sacco-Vanzetti sypmathizerS.
On the clue of a Massachusetts,
number plate seen on q sedan leaving
the scene of one of the pomomgs, a
| New York detective was sent to BoS-
ton The New York Evening Post said
the clue led to the doorstep of q
!: known Sacco-Vanzettl Sympathizer
there. Police commissioner Warren
said, however, that the Sacco-V -Vanzetti
theory of the bombings was only one
lOf four held by the police.
Among many protests reported
yesterday were mass meetings of
lsympathizers at Vancouver, B. c., and
Helsingfors, Finland; a number of
sporadic demonstrations in Paris,
where only the taxi drivers responded
to a general strike call; and a plea
| to the American consul at Plymouth,
England by a group of communists.
| In Philadelphia, where the En-
anuel Presbyterian church was dam
aged by bomb Friday night, three
dock workers were arrested while dis
tributing literature calling for gen
leral protest strike.
| AS an aftermath of demonstrat-
ion on Boston common Sunday, Ed
ward Holton James, wealthy radical,
arraigned for inciting to riot and as
sault, refused to plead, stating that
he would not stand up "before muir
derers," and in preference to $75
| fine took sentence Of 80 days in
+, Jail Later he recanted and paid the
| fine.
| Responding to a call from the
Boston Sacco-Vanzetti defense COM
mittee to Liberals throughout the
country to march upon Boston in a
monster demonstration tomorrow, the
New York committee announced that
several thousand New YorkerS would
take part, and that bus transporta-
tion has been arranged for those
without other means of travel.
/ Responding to the Boston's COM
naitteeS call for a death watch
over Charleston prison, Miss Rose
Baron, secretary of the New York
committee said, trains, buses, auto
mobiles and some on foot are headed
for the Massachusetts bastile."
BOSTON, Aug R-Hope rose in
the ranks defending Nicola Sacco
and Bartholomeo Vanzetti early to-
might when a day of legal failure to
Iobtain a stop order on their scheduled
electrocution for murder at Charles
town this week was capped by Judge
Webster Thayer's decision to take I'm.
der advisement petition for revo-
cation Of sentence and stay OF eye
fcution.
i Sitting on the same bench in Nor
folk county superior court house
where the men were tried ana con-
@victed six years ago Of the murder
Iof a paymaster and his guard in
South Braiatree, the aged Judge
EThayer refused for the second time
lin the history of the long case to
gram a new trial on the grounds OF
newly discovered evidence, but con-
Esented to consider a surprise move
in the part of the defense made in
the form of petition for revocation
of sentence and q stay OF eXecu-
ton.
After conference with defense
land prosecuting attorneys which last
led nearly two hours, Judge ThayeT
announced his decision on the re-
vocation plea and the stay would be
filled with the clerk of the court tc-
morrow morning.
H The developments at Dedham
(which threw an entirely new angle on
the last ditch fight to save Saccc
and Vanzetti from the chair for at
Ileast another "a hours followed by
half a day failure in every respect
by defense counsel to delay execu-
ton through appeals to the Massa-
chusetts supreme court.
f Arthur d. Hill, chief defense coun-
sci. who entered the case last week
after Governor F'uller's adverse de-
cision against the condemned mer
and the resignation OF former detensi
counsel, William G Thompson ap-
EpGareQ DeIOTGl JuSGICCc N1COA6C "a C"'AA
/ derson in supporting petitions for
writ of habeas corpus, writ OF er-
ror and stay of execution.
In denying all pleas at the SUI
folk county court house in this cit!
this morning, Justice Sanderson de
clared:
"This court has no authority u
| grant a stay of sentence. The ques
| tions included in the petition tor
| writ of l1abeas corpus are not prope
! to an action for writ of habea
corpus and are therefore dismissed.
! Attorney Hill based his hour ant
a half argument in support OF hi
plea before Judge Sanderson malnl
on allegations of prejudice on tn
part of Judge Thayer, who presided. a
the condemned mems trial and who's
first refusal to grant a new trial wa
upheld by the supreme court AM
by Governor Fuller and his advisor
committee, who reviewed the case
Before Judge Thayer in Dedham TN
same arguments played a large par
| in Attorney Hills plea late thi
afternoon, together with supplement
tary allegations of newly discovere
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