The daily worker., 1929-06-03
TRIAL OF CANTER
FIXED IN ADVANCE
Use Trick to Keep Him
Jailed Pending Appeal

Continued from Poae One)
is now in Deer Island in Boston Har-
Dor, serving his one-year sentence,
pending the appeal to the state su-
preme court by the l. L. D. The
judge refused to release him on bail.
Trick to Make Him Serve.
81. G." went on to discuss the
trial. because of his closeness to
the defense his name cannot be dis
closed while the appeal is pending.)
Judge Robert Raymond's refusal
to allow bail to be furnished for
Canter's release pending the appeal
while technically Kosher is trick
to make him serve. The state su-
preme court won't sit until October
and no one can tell how long it will
take before they grant the appeal
if they grant it. This fact, however,
is not putting any damper on the
efforts of the International Labor
Defense to free him, and no stone
is being left unturned towards that
end. The defense has until July 10
to file its exceptions based on the
exclusion of its evidence and on
Judge Raymond's unusually vicious
charge to the jury.
Tipped in Advance.
"The trial was all fixed in ad-
vance so as to tie the hands of the
defense completely. The defense ad-
mitted, of course, that Canter car
ried the sign and then wanted to
prove that the meaning of the sign,
that Fuller was morally responsible
for the murder of Sacco and Van
zetti, was justified by the role Full
Ter played. But when the judge
ruled out all such evidence and de-
clared that the sign must be taken
literally, what else could the jury
do but convict? AS matter of fact,
there were even reactionaries who
thought that Judge Raymond YVES
too soft with the defense. Chief
Justice Robert Perley Hall bawled
him out for allowing defense wit
nesses to testify concerning the Sac
co-Vanzetti case on the first days
of the trial. The fact that this evil
dence was given with the jury out
of the room and was not included
in the record was not enough for
this austere upholder of the sacred
capitalist law. The result of the
bawling out was that on the second
day Judge Raymond defused to hear
any more defense witnesses, includ-
ing Fuller himself and Big Chief
Mede who engineered the Bridge
water holdup for which Vanzetti
was framed and given Is years. In
some miraculous telepathic way Full
Ter, who had been subpoenaed by the
defense, knew that he wouldn't have
to testify, and that day found him
not in Boston, but at his summer
home in Rye Beach, N. H. Can it
be that Fuller was tipped off in ad-
vance?
Show Fuller's Guilt. !
"The testimony of witnesses who
testified on the opening day was
interesting. The testi-
mony of William G. Thompson, at
torney for Sacco and Vanzetti, was
full of revelations which showed that
Fuller deliberately sent the two Ital-
ian workers to their death, actively
the frameup. Robert Lin
colin O'Brien, former managing edi-
tor of the Boston Herald, testified |
that Fuller told him on June Is,
1927, that the governments case
was breaking down completely. On
June 20, 16 days later, Fuller talked
with John F. Moors, a banker, whom
he told that he was convinced of
the guilt of the two workers and
that he had secret sources of in
formation which he couldn't divulge.
What happened in those 16 days to
cause this sudden about-face will
never be known.
ne Boston capltallSC neWspa-
oers played up the Canter trial in
5he most sensational manner. One
If them, the Herald, recently shown
20 be controlled by the power trust,
carried one of the most disgusting
pieces of provocation l have ever
seen. On the opening day of the
rial the Herald ran story, appar-
,ntly out of clear sky, that ever
since the Sacco-Vanzetti case, Full
er's house has been guarded against
possible bomb-throwers. This was,
# course, calculated to incite pub
ic opinion against Canter. All the
'thers newspapers were bitterly hos
ila"