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...Webster Thayer, trial judge in the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, held under death sentence (TIME, Sept. 27, Nov. 1, April 18, April 25) in the Dedham (Mass.) jail, refer during the trial to Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti as "those bastards"'? Did he say "a bunch of parlor radicals are trying to get those guys off," but that he "would show them and would get those guys hanged"? Did he add that "no Bolsheviki could intimidate Web Thayer," that he "would also like to hang a few dozen radicals...
...CRIMSON regrets its failure, in publishing recently the reply of Professor Frankfurter to Dean Wigmore on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, to give credit to the Boston Herald for permission to use Professor Frankfurter's statement...
Will you permit an old alumnus of the college and a graduate of the Law School, to express his admiration for the able article in which Professor Wigmore, an eminent graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, analyzes the specious and ex-party presentation of the Sacco-Vanzetti case that appeared recently in the Atlantic Monthly...
...evidently not the merits of the Sacco-Vanzetti case which most deeply divide the people of this community. It is the question of the respect owed to the findings of our courts. One great churchman publicly rebukes another for suggesting that the case be reviewed by an executive commission: he characterizes that suggestion as an impertinence. Such an expression can only come from deeply stirred feeling, a feeling that when our courts are under attack from agitators those who have a decent regard for them should stand together in their defence. It is because of the consideration one must feel...
...legislative action; that in 1860 capital cases were tried before four justices of the Supreme Judicial Court; that the present practice in which a capital case may be heard by only one judge is an anomaly in Massachusetts history, an experiment of barely ten years standing when Sacco and Vanzetti were brought to trial (and a clearly dangerous experiment): and that for this reason, public concern in its working is not only justified but demanded on the part of all who do respect and value the fair name of our courts...