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Frank P. Sibley, Boston reporter, said that during the trial Judge Thayer repeatedly discussed the case with reporters, that Judge Thayer said: "I'll show them that no long-haired anarchist from California can run this court." The "long-haired anarchist" was Fred H. Moore, defense attorney, who had a reputation for defending radicals. Mr. Sibley added that Judge Thayer often called defense attorneys "those damn fools...
...Lois B. Rantoul, who reported the trial for the Greater Boston Federation of Churches, said that after the prosecution in the trial had rested, Judge Thayer asked her what she thought of the case. She said she was not convinced that the defendants were guilty. The judge said she would "feel differently" after hearing his charge to the jury...
John Nicholas Beffel, newspaper correspondent, said that Judge Thayer gave newspapermen advance copies of his charge to the jury (as is often done) but that the charge as delivered in advance differed from the charge actually given...
...Elizabeth R. Bernkopf, who covered for the International News motions made in 1923 for a retrial, said that Judge Thayer presented her with an unsolicited autographed photograph of himself and referred to Attorney Moore as a "long-haired anarchist." He said he could not be "hoodwinked" and that nobody "could put anything over...
Besides affidavits, the petition contained a statement from George U. Crocker, onetime Boston Treasurer. Mr. Crocker is a member of the University Club where Judge Thayer stayed during the trial. His statement said: "At this time I did not know that I had ever met Judge Thayer. He approached me one evening, however, called me by name and began to talk to me about the Sacco-Vanzetti case, and I soon was able to gather that he was the Presiding Judge, but even then I did not know his name. . . . One morning at breakfast I particularly remember because it seemed...