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Thus did the overwrought Nation* begin its obsequies over another long-lost cause. In Boston, less hysterical people than the Nation's editor went about the sorry business of disposing of the bodies of Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti and the practical business of keeping martrydom alive with yet more litigation...
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...
WOLL-GREEN AND THE SOC PARTY BETRAYED THEM (Angry groans and catcalls) VANZETTI MURDERED! (Cries, as above...
Died. Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 39, fishmonger, convicted of murder; by electrocution in Charlestown, Mass. (see p. 10). Died. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, 53, naturalist, painter of birds; from burns and crushing in a grade crossing motor accident near Unadilla...