Word: luigia
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...Italian woman returned last week to Italy with two sorry souvenirs after a six-week visit to the U. S. She was Miss Luigia Vanzetti, aboard the S. S. Mauretania, with two urns. In one urn were half the ashes of Bartolomeo Vanzetti, her electrocuted, anarchist brother; in the other, half the ashes of Nicola Sacco, her brother's electrocuted, anarchist friend-murderers both, in the eyes of Massachusetts...
Back in Cambridge, incendiaries had fired five buildings. In the cemetery, another fire blazed, its smoke trailing thin and mournful from the crematorium's high smokestack. The limousines were parked there, one with its shades drawn to hide the prostration of Miss Luigia Vanzetti, Mrs. Sacco and her son Dante. Mary Donovan and Gardner Jackson of the defense committee had the hardihood to follow into the crematorium after Miss Donovan had read a last eulogy to the dead. They peered through a glassed peephole at the coffins flaming...
Ashes. Miss Luigia Vanzetti announced that she would take her brother's ashes to Europe via no U. S. city save New York. Mrs. Sacco was less definite, but enthusiasts bustled around Manhattan trying to lease Madison Square Garden or the Polo Grounds, the Yankee Stadium, Cooper Union or Carnegie Hall. All were refused. Police Commissioner Joseph A. Warren of New York refused a parade permit. The enthusiasts said they would display the urns, strew Red carnations, sing the Internationale in Union Square, permitted...
...defenses at Charlestown Prison, which none might "approach closer than 1,000 feet. Relatives of the prisoners, however, were admitted to the death house. To reach the death cells they had to pass the electric chair. Prisoner Vanzetti was allowed to leave his cell and embrace his sister, Luigia whom he had not seen for 19 years. Prisoner Sacco saw his wife and 14-year-old son, Dante, to whom he later wrote a farewell letter telling him to comfort his mother, fight the rich, help the weak...
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