Word: sacco
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Guilty or not, justly or not, Nicola Sacco, clean-shaven factory worker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, mustachioed fish-peddler, were informed last Monday evening that they must die that midnight for the murders-which to the end they denied committing-of a paymaster and guard at South Braintree, Mass...
This sentence contains two errors of fact, Sacco and Vanzetti were put to death in the electric chair in Charlestown State Prison. After trial in Superior Court in Dedham they had been found guilty of murder in the first degree. They were tried for murder and not for treason...
...very interesting story of September 27 about Professor Sacvan Berkovitch and the origin of his first name. The Crimson stated that the famous anarchist Sacco and Vanzetti, "were hanged in Boston for treason during the Red Scare." They were not indicted for treason but for killing a guard during an armed robbery, and they were not hanged but electrocuted, as I have first-hand reason to know...
...that August of 1927, when I was a Harvard undergraduate and, indeed, an editor of The Crimson, I visited the funeral parlor in East Boston where Sacco and Vanzetti were lying in state. On their temples I saw the daubs of white which were used to cover the burns where the fatal electrodes had been attached...
Looking down on their faces, I naively, impressionistically, came to the conclusion (one to which some of their dedicated supporters later also came) that Vanzetti was innocent but Sacco appeared capable of the crimes with which he was charged. Robert Corham Davis