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...asked, in effect, to reverse a judicial decision when such a reversal will be universally interpreted as reflecting upon a member of the Massachusetts judiciary. For only Alvan Tufts Fuller, Governor of Massachusetts, can by the exercise of his right of pardon save Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, convicted murderers, from having sent through their bodies, sometime during the week of July 10, 1927, a current of electricity sufficiently powerful to cause their deaths...
...public life. As a member of the Massachusetts State Legislature, of the U. S. House of Representatives, as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, and as Governor of Massachusetts, he has returned, uncashed, all salary checks received as salary. Thus Governor Fuller. Why, however, has his action regarding the Sacco-Vanzetti case become a matter of national, of international concern? Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti are awaiting execution for a payroll robbery, accompanied by murder, occurring in South Braintree, Mass., on April 15, 1920. A fortnight ago Judge Webster Thayer, trial judge at the time of the conviction, sentenced the two Italians...
...World War lasted four years and was duly chronicled as an international episode. The case of Sacco & Vanzetti is seven years old and is still an international episode. It is a tale filled with blood and tears, with Reds and bigwigs, with bombs and laws. . . . April 15, 1920. A paymaster and a guard were shot to death on the streets of South Braintree, Mass., and robbed of a payroll of $15,000 by two men who "looked like Italians." May 5, 1920. Two Italians who lived near South Braintree-Nicola Sacco, shoemaker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, fish peddler-were arrested...
...Vanzetti, have you anything to say. . . ?" The fish peddler was an orator: "Yes, what I say is that I am innocent. ... I have never stole, never killed, never spilled blood . . . but I have struggled all my life, since I began to reason, to eliminate crime from the earth. . . . What we have suffered during these seven years no human tongue can say, and yet you see me before you, not trembling, you see me looking you in your eyes straight, not blossoming, not changing color, not ashamed or in fear. . . . "We know that you [Judge Thayer] have spoke your hostility against...
Echoes. Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts was flooded with telegrams and petitions urging a pardon for Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti, or at least an impartial investigation of their case. Twenty-two members of the British Parliament demanded immediate freedom for them. Breadmakers and taxi-drivers in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and laborers in many another land went on protest strikes. Heavy guards were posted at the U. S. Department of State and at Judge Thayer's home. . . . And, meanwhile, the fish peddler and the shoemaker sat in jail, fumbling with martyrdom. They have two hopes: a technicality leading...