Word: vanzettis
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...mass meeting to be held tonight at 7.30 o'clock on the Sacco-Vanzetti case at the club house of the Student Liberal Club, 66 Winthrop Street, will be addressed by Mrs. Lois Rantoul and Mrs. Glendower Evans, who will present the evidence of the trial...
...evidence of the Sacco-Vanzetti case will be discussed by Mrs. Lois Rantoul, representing the Womans Trade Union League, and Mrs. Glendower Evans, secretary of the League for Democratic Control, at a mass meeting open to members of the University to be held at the club house of the Student Liberal Club, 66 Winthrop Street, Friday evening at 7.30 o'clock...
...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...
...recent exposures concerning the alleged questionable proceedings of the Department of Justice are sufficiently grave to demand the immediate attention of every exponent of civil liberty. The Sacco-Vanzetti case, the fall of the Italian, Salsedo, from the fourteenth story of the offices of the Department, the extended list of its illegal practices compiled by such lawyers as Zachariah Chafee, Felix Frankfurter, and Dean Pound of the Law School, cannot fail to arouse the suspicion that "where there is smoke there is fire". Specifically, the Department is charged with wanton destruction of property; arrest without warrant; illegal imprisonment without trial...