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THE TRIAL
of
SACCO and VANZETTI

A Summary of the Outstanding
Testimony


by

LOUIS BERNHEIMER



The Truth Shall Make You Free


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FOREWORD

Few murder cases have attracted the anxious attentionof the entire civilized world over so long a period oftime as the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzettiat Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. These men,Italian radicals and aliens, were arrested during the “RedRaids” carried out by the United States Department ofJustice in 1920, convicted of murder in connection with apayroll hold-up, and on April 9th, 1927, seven years aftertheir arrest, sentenced to die in the electric chair.

Agitation for the release of Sacco and Vanzetti hastaken place in every corner of the earth. Many celebratedmen at home and abroad have declared them to be innocent,their defense has fought a heroic fight, while themachinery of the law has steadily brought them closerto death day by day, until there now stands between themand execution in the week of July 10th of this year, oneman, Governor Alvin T. Fuller of Massachusetts.

Widespread ignorance on the part of the general publicof the actual testimony on which the conviction ofSacco and Vanzetti was secured has made it advisablethat a brief summary of the testimony of outstandingimportance at the trial should be made.

The summary here offered, is based on the book by ProfessorFelix Frankfurter, of the Harvard Law School,“The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti,” itself based on thewritten record of the trial, published by Little, Brown,and Company in association with the Atlantic MonthlyCompany, Boston, Mass., and available at all bookstores.

L. B.

New York,
May 15, 1927.


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Seven years ago, on the afternoon of April 15, 1920,in South Braintree, Massachusetts, Parmenter andBerardelli, a paymaster and his guard, while carryingin two boxes the payroll of the shoe factory of Slaterand Morrill, amounting to over $15,000, from the officebuilding to the factory of the company, a three minutewalk, were fired upon and killed by two men. As thepaymaster and guard fell, an automobile carrying severalmen drew up. The bandits seized the boxes ofmoney, threw them into the car, jumped in, and were off.

Charged with the murder on May 5, 1920, three weeksafter the crime, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti,the former an industrious workman with a family, thelatter a fish peddler, both extreme radicals, were put ontrial on May 31, 1921, at Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.The presiding Judge was Webster Thayer,of Worcester. Chief counsel for the Italians was FredH. Moore, a Westerner and a radical, later, Jeremiahand Thomas F. McAnarney, and finally William G.Thompson, a former President of the Boston Bar Association.

Three main lines of attack were followed by the Commonwealthin its effort to secure a conviction, as follow

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