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...Tuesday a group of Law School professors headed by Dean Roscoe Pond Hon, '20 dispatched to Governor Fuller a petition requesting the appointment of a committee to investigate further the case of Sacco and Vanzetti. The following article was written especially for the Crimson by F. H. Bohlen, Langdell Professor of Law, who explains the true function of a committee such as the one whose creation is advocated...
...signature to the petition headed by Dean Pound does not imply any criticism of Massachusetts' justice. I myself am a Pennsylvanian. I feel sure that had the Sacco Vanzetti case been tried in 1921 before a court and jury in any place in Pennsylvania, similar to Dedham, the unfortunate but necessary interjection of proof that the defendants were communists would have created such a prejudice against them that the would have been convicted upon even the flimsiest of evidence...
...there is more in the Sacco-Vanzetti case than is contained in a bare recital of its facts and dates. During one morning last week the first mail alone brought to Governor Fuller 57 letters, some urging intercession, others protesting against intercession for Shoemaker Sacco, for Fish-peddler Vanzetti. Twenty-two members of the British Parliament cabled Governor Fuller, demanding a new trial, viewing with horror the approaching executions of two men whose guilt they question. Last week 7,000 New Yorkers gathered in Union Square, roared "Stop the murder of Sacco & Vanzetti." In London, in Paris, in The Hague...
That case rests partly upon the contention that Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti, because of their avowed Communistic principles, did not receive a fair trial owing to prejudice against their political beliefs partly upon the contention that since their conviction, important new evidence has developed sufficient to justify a retrial. Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers, quoting from the trial records, point out 815?. Prosecutors Katzmann and Williams stressed the facts that Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti had ln 1917, dodged the draft by going to Mexico, that both were Reds of the most crimson hue. Cross-examining Mr. Sacco, District Attorney Katzmann drew from...
Complicated tortured, partly dimmed by the passage of seven years is the problem which Governor Fuller must analyze. As against the allegations discussed above, he will doubtless consider the facts that Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti, tried by a jury of their peers, were found guilty; that Trial Judge Webster Thayer, before whom have come repeated petitions for a new trial has steadfastly refused to consider any of the matter contained in these petitions as important enough to justify reopening th? case. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has also refused to allow appeals taken from the verdict arrived...