Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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, who had previously identified other Italians as participants in the crime, swore that Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti were the killers. But, 20 Italians said they had purchased eels from Mr. Vanzetti at the hour of the crime, and the Italian consul in Boston swore that Mr. Sacco had been in his presence at that time. However, the police who arrested them swore...
...world, one knows, is always full of a sufficient number of portentous things. Miners strike; Chinamen war; cities fall; Borah talks; art, music and education trend; crime waves, tongs war, elections recur with a certain regularity...
...excuse their "red" radicalism, or to bring the administration of justice in the Commonwealth into contempt; but rather as an effort to see that all the safeguards are employed with the judicial system itself provides to protect its reputation for fairness by keeping men from being executed for one crime because they may perchance have shown themselves guilty of another. It has been hard for the public to understand this because some of the central issues in the case turn on important but technical principles of the law of evidence, while the material to, which these principles must be applied...
...ultimate issue in the case is obviously whether the two defendants were or were not members of a murder gang which drove into South Braintree one day in April, 1920, killed a paymaster, and made off with a payroll. The evidence directly connecting them with the crime was of the slightest. It is generally admitted that no connection has ever been established between them and any gang, and they have shown no signs of sudden enrichment. Their identification as persons who participated in the crime rested solely on the contradicted testimony of unreliable witnesses who claimed to have seen them...
After the case went to the Supreme Court new evidence was produced in the form of a confession by a member of a notorious criminal gang that the crime was committed by this gang. This was made the basis of another motion for a new trial which was likewise denied by the trial judge and from this ruling another appeal is now pending in the Supreme Court; but once more the Supreme Court will be faced only with the extremely narrow question of whether or not it can say that the trial judge in derying the motion went...