Word: vanzetti
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Prisoners Sacco and Vanzetti died in the order that their names had long been coupled, seven minutes apart...
...SACCO & VANZETTI CALMLY AND HEROICALLY AWAIT...
...Lawyer Arthur D. Hill redoubled their activities. Their clients had been subjected to a shock which, psychologically and philosophically speaking, was easily the equivalent of any crime they might have committed against society. Society, through its legal machinery in Massachusetts, had started to bare the skins of Prisoners Sacco, Vanzetti and Madeiros for the touch of Death and then, with a reprieve of which the melodrama was a cheap insult to whatever dignity human life may have, virtually mumbled: ". . . Live on for twelve days longer. Our mind is not quite made...
Relatives: Machine guns, search lights and fire-hoses were added to the 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...
...newsboy: "Betcha I know what they'll show next - Vanzetti or one of them strapped down...