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...cells in the "death house" at the Charlestown (Mass.) State Prison last week failed to receive two occupants who were scheduled to move into them. For Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, sentenced to be electrocuted during the week of July 10, were given a one-month respite by Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts to permit further investigation of their seven-year case. A similar respite was also given to one Celestino F. Madeiros, condemned killer, whose testimony is an important factor in the Sacco-Vanzetti investigation...
...final action. His Advisory Committee (President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, President Samuel W. Stratton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Judge Robert Grant) has not as yet held any meetings, presumably owing to Commencement duties of two of its members. Friends of Mr. Sacco & Mr. Vanzetti were disappointed because the respite was only for one month, but of course there is no reason why Governor Fuller cannot grant as many additional respites as seem necessary...
...guilt which she did not feel. Friends, however, carried her case to the U. S. Supreme Court which last May (TIME, May 23) upheld the constitutionality of the Syndicalism Act. Miss Whitney, now 60 years old, prepared to serve her sentence, said that in comparison with Sacco & Vanzetti, she had little cause for complaint...
...CASE OF SACCO AND VANZETTI- Felix Frankfurter-Little, Brown...
Although the new committee is advisory only and although it is in no sense pro-Sacco or pro-Vanzetti, friends of the condemned Italians welcomed its appointment. Felix Frankfurter's study of the Sacco-Vanzetti case* has become a sort of Sacco-Vanzetti Bible, extracts from which have been read from many a soap-box on many a public square...