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Commenting on the Sacco-Vanzetti case to which he gave the most of his attention in his indictment of the courts and of the Department of Justice, Mr. Beffel declared that in many of its elements, this case bears a close resemblance to the Mooney and Billings case in California. "I have been here investigating this case since December 1," he continued. "Sacco and Vanzetti are accused of two pay-roll murders which occurred at South Braintree last April. Sacco was indicted on the testimony of three eye witnesses, none of whom would say positively that...
...Vanzetti, who has never had a chance to face his accusers, had, however, been previously convicted of an attempted pay roll holdup at Bridgewater in December, 1919. The so-called identification tests at his trial were as fragile as tissue paper. One boy who was never closer than 145 feet to the fleeing men, identified Vanzetti as the 'shot gun' man', though he admitted he had only a fleeing glimpse of the bandit's face. He said he could tell the man was an Italian...
...Several witnesses materially altered the testimony they had given many weeks before at the initial police court hearing. Benjamin Bowles, special officer, swore originally that the shotgun man's moustache was short; but at the trial, after he had seen Vanzetti, Bowles declared that the shotgun man's moustache was bushy...
...What happened in the Vanzetti trial is no new story--it is a repetition of practices in the Mooney trial, the Centralia trial, and the prosecution of Sidney Flowers in Los Angeles. Mooney and Billings went to prison on wholly fabricated evidence; the judges in the Centralia case made rulings without a show of regard for the truth; and stool-pigeons were used in the Flowers case; one of them was lately planted in a cell next to Sacco in an effort to get him to commit himself in conversation...
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are Italians by birth, the former a shoe worker, the latter an eel seller, who were for many years aggressive in solidifying Italian workingmen in demands for higher wages. Both men were friends of Andrea Salredo, who last year plunged to his death from the 14th story of a building where he was confined by the Department of Justice. Two days after his death they both were arrested. They were connected with two hold-ups and sentenced; their supporters claim that they had nothing to do with the hold-ups, but were victims...