Word: bartolomeo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asked, in effect, to reverse a judicial decision when such a reversal will be universally interpreted as reflecting upon a member of the Massachusetts judiciary. For only Alvan Tufts Fuller, Governor of Massachusetts, can by the exercise of his right of pardon save Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, convicted murderers, from having sent through their bodies, sometime during the week of July 10, 1927, a current of electricity sufficiently powerful to cause their deaths...
...course. When, in his office beneath the Golden Dome of the State House at Boston, he sits down to consider his decision, what arguments are there that might lead him to decide in favor of the shoemaker and the fish-peddler? What is the case for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti...
...laws. . . . April 15, 1920. A paymaster and a guard were shot to death on the streets of South Braintree, Mass., and robbed of a payroll of $15,000 by two men who "looked like Italians." May 5, 1920. Two Italians who lived near South Braintree-Nicola Sacco, shoemaker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, fish peddler-were arrested as suspicious characters. The U. S. was then on a rabid radical hunt. Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti were on the Red lists. July 14, 1921. A jury found Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti guilty of the South Braintree murders on the following evidence: Factory-window witnesses...
...night before in Paris there had been a Communist mass-meeting, and a deputation of Communists had just called, in a high state of excitement, to present resolutions demanding that Ambassador Herrick intercede to prevent the "assassination" of Comrades Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti of Massachusetts. Mr. Waterhouse had engaged the leaders of the deputation in thoughtful conversation and pointed...
...years is a long life for an international episode. Six years ago Nicola Sacco, factory worker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, fish peddler, were convicted for a double murder in South Braintree, Mass. Today they are neither free nor executed. Radicals and liberals the world over have respectively tossed bombs at U. S. embassies and put up a huge defense fund to show that they thought Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti had been convicted unjustly. The defense says that in 1920 the U. S. was on a militant radical hunt, and so used a murder conviction as a speedy method of getting...