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...Governor's pardon, between them and death, Comrades Sacco and Vanzetti were more than ever the potential fuses for bombs* under the chairs of unwary U.S. dignitaries, whose safety was not increased by comment such as the opening editorial sentence of last week's Nation: "Judge Webster Thayer is a disgrace to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
Last week, Judge Webster Thayer in the Superior Court at Dedham, Mass., handed down a decision denying a new trial on the basis of new evidence which he had heard last month (TIME, Sept. 27). He concluded that one Celestino Madeiros, who confessed to the murder charged against Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti, was "a crook, a thief, a robber, a liar, a rumrunner, a 'bouncer' in a house of ill-fame, a smuggler and a man who was being convicted and sentenced to death for murder." Other evidence did not warrant the belief of his story. Also Judge Thayer...
...heard pleas and has denied them. Still other motions for a new trial were made in the present year, based on the ground of newly discovered evidence--these motions supported by the affidavit of a condemned murderer named Madeiros. The motions have in their turn been denied by Judge Thayer in the Superior Court. In denying them, Judge Thayer has gone over the whole ground very thoroughly and voluminously, omitting no question or point of evidence. There is no phase of the Madeiros affidavit which he has not examined in this exhaustive decision. The fatal inconsistencies in the Madeiros story...
Last week in the Superior Court at Dedham, Mass., he presented his evidence to Judge Webster E. Thayer at the hearing to determine whether. or not there shall be a new trial...
...better proof of the value of CRIMSON training can be offered than by citing a few names of former editors. Professor James H. Woods, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Owen Wister, William Roscoe Thayer, Ambassador Haughton, Joseph Clark Drew, T. W. Lamont, and Melville E. Stone represent a few CRIMSON editors who have succeeded after college...