Word: vanzettis
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...wrote Mr. Sacco and so, apparently, well might he have written, for the trend of events last week continued to offer no encouragement to Sacco-Vanzetti adherents. There had been not the slightest official indication that the case has taken an unfavorable turn for the condemned men, but both the prisoners themselves and their defense committee had seemingly lost faith in Governor Fuller and his advisory committee. The most striking evidence of their pessimism had been the continuation of their hunger strike. Mr. Sacco had been on his hunger strike since July 17; Mr. Vanzetti had been virtually fasting...
...another delay in the long delayed case when Alvan T. Fuller Jr., the Governor's 12-year-old son, was stricken with appendicitis and taken to Massachusetts General Hospital for an operation. The operation was successfully performed, but Governor Fuller not unnaturally had his attention diverted from the Sacco-Vanzetti case by his son's illness...
...should be pointed out that Governor Fuller need not choose between pardoning Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti and permitting their electrocution. He has also the authority to commute their sentences to life imprisonment or to a term of years. In this last case the seven years they have already served would, of course, be counted in their favor. The Governor may also make any discrimination that he desires between the two men?for instance it would be legally possible, though highly unlikely, for him to pardon one of the prisoners and make no intervention on behalf of the other. The only limit...
...have lived for it and for the dream that some day I would have come back to life, among our friends and comrades again, but woe is me." Despondent, indeed, was the tone of Mr. Sacco's letter and gloomy the outlook for both Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti. For the pendulum that has for seven years swung between life and death last week swung toward death again. Since the publication of sensational affidavits alleging unfairness by Trial-Judge Webster Thayer (TIME, May 16) and the investigation of the Sacco-Vanzetti case by Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts...
...Madeiros, respited along with Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti, is to be electrocuted for the murder, in November, 1924, of a bank cashier. He was a member of a bandit group known as the Morelli gang, has claimed that this gang murdered the South Braintree (Mass.) paymaster and guard for whose deaths Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti are sentenced to die. He has sworn that neither Mr. Sacco nor Mr. Vanzetti belonged to the Morelli gang, nor were they in any way involved in the South Braintree crime. Mr. Madeiros was first sentenced to be executed in September, 1926, but his connection with...