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...murder, seven years ago. He had a wife named Rose, a son named Dante, a little daughter named Inez. He was inclined to be moody, introspective, with occasional outburst of fumbled yet eloquent English. He detested capitalistic society, as did his comrade in life and in jail, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, bachelor, onetime fish peddler and ditchdigger, whose mustache used to be neatly curled. Mr. Vanzetti, an outspoken emotionalist, was the acknowledged orator of the pair...
...their cells in the death house of the Massachusetts State Prison, Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti heard last week that they were to die. Mrs. Sacco and two advisers brought the news. For an hour and a half, they talked together, while prison guards listened and looked. Mr. Sacco (then on the 19th day of a hunger strike) mumbled over and over: "I told you so, I told you so," as if in rhythm with his throbbing, withered arteries. Said Mr. Vanzetti: "I don't believe...
...Warm Letters. In that hour and a half, Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti each found time to write a letter to friends. Mr. Vanzetti's: "Governor Alvan T. Fuller is a murderer. . . . He shakes hands with me like a brother, makes me believe he was honest-intentioned.... Now, ignoring and denying all proofs of our innocence, he insults us and murders us. ... We die for anarchy. Long life to anarchy." Mr. Sacco's: ". . . . We are not surprised by this news, because we know the capitalist class is hard, without any mercy to the good soldiers of the revolution. . . . We have always known...
...Sacco-Vanzetti case became even more an international affair with a rumor last week that a committee of noted Frenchmen was coming to the U. S. to aid the condemned men. On this committee were reported to be Georges Lecomte, of the French Academy, Louis Loucheur, the Countess de Noailles, onetime Minister of the Interior, Louis Malvy, Professor Paul Langevin and Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Dreyfus (retired...
Colonel Dreyfus should be particularly fitted to sympathize with Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti as from 1894 to 1906 he was the centre of the Dreyfus Case. This case in many ways paralleled the Sacco-Vanzetti case, though to the present generation of U. S. newspaper readers it is hardly more than a name. Many who read the announcement of Dreyfus' visit were surprised to find that the hero of the Dreyfus Case was still alive and active...