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Wise & Co., Roycroft Distributors, Dept 9210, 50 West 47th St., New York City. Sacco and Vanzetti speak for themselves The most important evidence is now Sacco and Vanzetti, the shoemaker and the fish- A Link in the Evidence Were they innocent or were they guilty? Disinterested people spent seven years in trying to free them; Governors and College Presidents took sides for and against them. Their friends said: "Men who can talk and act and write as they do could not be guilty." Their letters must be regarded as an essential part of the evidence. You can be the judge. Minds in the Making such stuff as this the new citizenry is being ma The letters present the other side of Americ ization the immigrant's side. Their point view is worth understanding-must be und stood-if the adjustment is to be smoo International Sponsorship Charlestown, Jan. 10, 1921 DEAR ALFONSINA: ... I heartily laughed to hear that the Kisses to the children, best regards to THE LETTERS OF Edited by Whatever you decide, you will find in this volume. The New Americans Finally, if you are interested in the making of Americans, you will read these letters with absorption. From just The volume will be sponsored by a c mittee made up of some of the wor foremost writers and thinkers, wh names will be announced on the co It has been carefully compiled edited by Marion Denman Frankfu and Gardner Jackson. First Edition Publication early in November. On count of the sensation caused by Silva confession, it is expected that first edition will be heavily overscribed. You can reserve a copy by filling out and mailing the coupon. book will then be delivered to you on publicat Contents Bartolo In addition to nearly 300 letters, the book will con biographical notes, a complete and impartial recor the case, Sacco's and Vanzetti's speeches before Court, Vanzetti's letter to Governor Fuller, and zetti's last statement. Illustrated with portraits of men and facsimiles of their handwriting; 384 pages, oct cloth bound, gold stamped. Price THE OUTLOOK AND INDEPENDENT, October 31, 1928. Volume 150, Number 9, Published weekly by The Outlook Company at 120 East 16th Street, New York, N. Y. Subscription price $5.00 a year. Single copies 15 cents each. Foreign subscription to ountries in the Postal Union, $6.56. Entered as second-class matter, July 21, 1893, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., and July 20. 1928, at the Post Office at Springfield, Mass., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1928, by The Outlook Company. IN ANY SOCIETY which is to endure, the administration of justice is one of the foundation stones. For if through error or prejudice one man can suffer injustice at the hands of the law, there is no guaranty that another may not also and, given other circumstances. that other man may be you or I. Once men lose faith in the administration of their laws, society is on the road to disintegration. IT IS for this reason that there is laid upon the press of any country the profound obligation of eternal vigilance and close scrutiny where courts, legal procedures and lawyers are concerned. So IT IS in response to this obligation that The Outlook and Independent prints in this issue the results of its investigation of the conviction of Bartolomeo Vanzetti for the Bridgewater hold-up. Judges, like other men, are human, in their capacity for error. are lawyers. Men accused of crime may be poorly defended, or dishonestly defended, as well as honestly and ably dealt with. No man in his senses believes that all judges can lay aside their prejudices and opinions when they mount the bench. Juries are human and make mistakes. YET, our system is the only means we have of dealing out justice and protecting society. We can improve this system, but we cannot discard it. Το keep it functioning at its best requires the vigilance of every good citizen to see that the fewest possible mistakes are made. that innocent men are not wrongly convicted, that incompetent judges are retired, and incompetent or dishonest lawyers disbarred. THIS journal passes no judgment in presenting the results of its investigation in this particular case. It lays what it has honestly found before the people and opens its columns for comment to Governor Fuller, his Advisory Committee, the attorneys for the defense and for the prosecution. IN THE END, society always finds that full discussion and open debate is the best way to conserve what it has. To that end, we hope all concerned in this particular case will co-operate with us. Francis Profus Bellamy Outlook and Independent October 31, 1928 The Truth About the Bridgewater ►► Hold-up ◄◄ The First of the Crimes for Which Vanzetti Was Convicted N THE evening of May 5, 1920, four Italians called at the door of a Mr. Johnson's house in ridgewater, Massachusetts. They ked to be allowed to use the automole of a friend of theirs, which had en in Johnson's garage for some time be repaired. Refused, they left the use. One departed on a motorcycle; e on foot; the other two boarded a reet car for Brockton. As the street r entered Brockton, two policemen arded it and the two men were arsted and taken to the Brockton Police tation. Later, the third Italian on le motorcycle was brought in and also eld. As a result of the police interviews, ne of the Italians was let go. The ther two were held and charged with double crime-first: the attempted old-up and robbery of a truck containg the payroll for the L. Q. White hoe Company, in the early morning of December 24, 1919, some months beore; second: the hold-up and murder f the paymasters of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Factory at South Brainree on April 15, 1920, three weeks reviously. The names of these two men were Vicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. These two men had been friends for Fears. They belonged to a group of narchists of Boston, some of whom were suspected, by the Department of Justice as well as the police of Massa Both chusetts, of being terrorists. Vanzetti, in particular, had been one M ONTHS had gone by since the original hold-up of the pay truck in Bridgewater occurred. But when the Braintree crime happened, also, Stewart, Chief of Police of Bridge water, for reasons of his own, formed the theory that both the hold-up and murder at South Braintree and the attempted hold-up at Bridgewater had been committed by the same men; and that these two men were Sacco and Vanzetti. In this theory, presumably he was strengthened by the results of the arrest and detention of these two men in the Brockton Police Station. On them were found revolvers and shells. Furthermore, when first questioned regarding their whereabouts and actions both lied-for a very good reason, as will appear later. gerous characters, because of their connection with the Galleani group of anarchists in Boston. At the moment of their arrest, they said they were calling for their friend's car at Johnson's garage in order to use it to transport literature. In addition, it was known that Vanzetti three days previously had been in New York seeing the lawyers for a certain Salsedo, a member of their group who while detained by Department of Justice agents had either jumped or been thrown from an eleventh story window in lower New York City. Mrs. Johnson, herself, had been instructed to telephone the Chief of Police if any of this group came to her house to secure the automobile. And their arrest, upon the street car, directly followed her telephone call, presumably in order to secure some of the reward which had been posted-and was later paid. To the police, these men were dan trial. |