The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-23
Three Men Go to Death
Without Showing Trace
of Fear.
MAINTAIN INNOCENCE
Heavy Guard Is Kept Over
Prison as Alleged
SlayerS Die.
BY HENRY MINOTT


BOSTON, Aug. 23-Massachu-
sets wiped the case of Nicola Sacco
and Bartolomeo Vanzetti OF its
books this afternoon.
The anarchists, with Celestino
Madeiros, we're electrocuted at the
Charlestown State Prison between
midnight and 1890 a. m.
In less than an hour, the bodies
rested in a city mortuary.
George B. MaGrath, county medi-
cal examiner, came during the
morning to perform the autopsy
required by law. Then the State
was through and ready to give the
bodies to the relatives.
Gardner Jackson and Aldino
Felicani of the Sacco- Vanzetti de-
Tense committee, claimed the bodies
of the two anarchists.
An undertaken claimed that of
Madeiros in behalf of his mother
and sister.
Police Relax Vigilance
Police vigilance had been relaxed
No crowds gathered at the morgue.
Newsboys shouted extras telling of
violence In other cities in the
United States and abroad, but
Boston was returning to normal.
Vanzetti will be returned to Italy
to be buried where he was born
His sister, LUCIA, who came here
from the little Italian village of
V1llafiletta to console him in his
last moments, probably will ac-
company it.
Sacco, who kept a beautiful
garden" at Stoughton, will be buried
by his wife, Rose, perhaps near a
Massachusetts garden.
The body OF Madeiros will be
sent to New Bedford, Mass, where
his mother lives.
Up to the hour of doom, weary at
torneys, battling for the lives Of the
condemned anarchists, held the
faintest glimmer of hope of staying
the hand of death.
Meet Death without Fear
Once before. only twelve days
since, these same lives had been
spared by a midnight reprieve. Last
midnight brought no respite.
The three men were ready for
death and met it without show of
fear.
Madeiros, entered the death
chamber at 1902 a. m. He walked
to the chair, led by two guards. At
8 minutes and 35 seconds past mid
night the doctors announced he was
dead.
Nicola Sacco was brought in next,
at 1911.
A man Of SO years, he seemed
younger as he walked with pale face,
but set lines, and steady gait to
the chair.
He was sitting in the death chair.
Long live anarchy" he cried, in
italian.
Guards adjusted straps and the
electrodes.
Farewell, my wife and child and
all my friends" he said audibly, this
time in broken English.
Vanzetti Is Dramatic
Just before Robert Elliott, the ex-
ecutioner, threw his switch from be-
hind screen, Sacco spoke his last
words:
Farewell, mother"
A deathly silence then prevailed.
A dozen men were there.
The only sound was the subdued
shuffling Of the two men who car
ried what had been Nicola Sacco to
marble slab behind q protecting
screen. He was pronounced dead
at 1919 a. m.
Vanzetti was brought In at 1920
With his mild, reproachful brown
eyes and dropping, walrus-like mus
tache, he radiated even at the hour
Of death the restless energy which
made him, an Itclian immigrant
and fish peddler, an intellectual
leader in his circle. He was three
years older than Sacco.
The attendants seemed more to be
accompanying than leading him.
He stopped to shake hands with
his guards.
Maintains His Innocence
Then he sat in the death seat
without a tremor and said:
II wish to tell you I am inno-
cent and never committed any
crime, but sometimes some sin.
81 thank you for everything you
have done.
Il am innocent of all crime, not
only of this one, but all.
II am an innocent man.
II wish to forgive some people for
what they are now doing to me-"
The earnest, broken English was
followed by brief, profound silence.
- Then the warden's arm raised In
the signal to the electrician.
Vanzetti was pronounced dead at
1926 a. m.
Hundreds Of police and troops
who, with their beyonets, pistols
and fire hose, had guarded the pris-
on against an interruption In the
business Of execution. began to dis
perse.
Michael '~9elo MuSranno. young
~a.aI a.