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Jackson and Felicani immediately communicated to Vanzetti's counsel the Governor's attitude on the point; and Herbert B. Ehrmann, well-known attorney, set out early Monday with Felicani to see whether, after seven years, they could turn up such evidence.

At the office of the American Express Company, the two were told that no records of that character were preserved for so long. They then began the weary round of the Atlantic Avenue fish dealers. Finally, they came upon the house with which Vanzetti dealt. It was now known as Corso and Gambino, 112 Atlantic Avenue; back in 1919 the firm had been Corso and Canizzo.

Corso was quite sure that he had preserved no such records. Why expect a firm to save for seven years the notes of a small barrel of live eels? But Ehr mann and Felicani were insistent. Human lives were at stake. Corso, ruminating, suddenly remembered that he had dumped a lot of old records in the loft above his shop.

Searching feverishly through these heaps of dust-laden papers and account books, Ehrmann and Felicani came upon an express receipt book. It was for the year 1919. Turning through its pages, they found entries showing shipment after shipment to Vanzetti; and then, in amazement, they discovered the entry showing that on Saturday, December 20, a forty-pound barrel of live eels was shipped to Vanzetti at Plymouth.

To make sure that Governor Fuller himself received the documentary evidence he had demanded, a ruse was adopted. A telephone message sum

moned his personal attorney, Jos Wiggin, into the ante-room of the G ernor's office. There Ehrmann p sonally turned the book over to him the meantime having made photost copies of certain pages), with an planation of its vital importance. received the assurance that the b would be brought immediately to attention of Governor Fuller and of ( Lowell Advisory Committee.

The undisputed testimony at 1 Bridgewater trial shows that the bar of eels was delivered on the Mond before Christmas, that Vanzetti was 1 at home to pay the express charges, a that on Tuesday the eels were fina left at the Fortini house. The und puted testimony shows that he spe all that day cleaning them, and work until midnight-although John Vahe Vanzetti's lawyer, did not summon t expressman as a witness.

Neither in the Lowell report nor Governor Fuller's statement is the any mention of the American Expre receipt. The Lowell Committee pa no attention to the Bridgewater cas save to say that it and the South Brai tree killing "do not seem to bear t marks of professionals, but of men ine pert in such crimes." Governor Full referred more than once to Bridgewate "Prior to the trial of the two men this (South Braintree) case," he sal in one place, "Vanzetti had been a rested, tried and convicted of an a tempted hold-up on December 24, 191 at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, an sentenced to fifteen years' imprison ment." If this gives the impressi that Vanzetti was twice arrested, it

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mistaken impression.

As has been own, he was arested but once in his e, and was then accused of both imes. It is true that in open court, the trial of the South Braintree case, mention was made of the Bridgeter conviction; but it is a matter of mmon knowledge among Boston newsper writers that the jurors knew of as, by that time, did every one concted with the case.

As for Governor Fuller, we have seen at he had knowledge of two vital velopments after the men were sennced to death; and before they were ecuted. One was Big Chief Mede's nfessed knowledge that others than cco and Vanzetti had perpetrated the ridgewater crime; the other ocumentary evidence that Vanzetti did ve eels to sell the day before Christas. Why did he make no mention of ther of them?

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Repeatedly, Gardner Jackson and elicani say publicly, they have asked e Governor why he omitted mention the express receipt. He is silent.

гCH was the trial and conviction of Vanzetti, in a small Massachusetts wn-without publicity, newspaper otice, or tumult. As a convicted gunan, and Sacco's good friend, then he was arraigned with Sacco for the second harge originally lodged against them then they were arrested. Both were ried for the Braintree crime, again efore Judge Thayer-and convicted; till long before the storm of publicity. How did that publicity begin? Very imply-with a man in Boston named Felicani.

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Aldino Felicani, who helped find the American Express receipt for the eels shipped to Vanzetti, had spent six months in jail in Italy with Mussolini, in the days when Mussolini was radical. After Felicani came to this country he learned to operate a linotype machine. At the time of the Dedham trial, for the South Braintree crime, he was working for an Italian daily paper, "La Notizia." He had no proof of the innocence of Sacco and Vanzetti, but he knew Vanzetti personally. That was enough for him. He wrote letters to the editor, under difand ferent names, about the case; Gratziano Longarini, the editor. published them. Felicani reported the Dedham trial by day, set up his story at night. The interest of the Italian community was aroused, and contributions for the defense began to reach the

office. It wasn't long before Felicani was able to set up a separate publication, devoted mainly to this case, called "L' Agitatione."

Meanwhile the English-language press outside of Massachusetts-where the trial was reported merely as another of those gunmen crimes-was silent. Not until bombs began to be thrown at American consulates, legations and embassies in Europe and South America did the fact filter back to this country that two philosophical anarchists were on trial for their lives because of their opinions.

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After that the agitation spread with A long roster-too amazing speed. long to be set down here-of distinguished leaders in thought, in public life, in letters, was added to the flood of telegrams, cables and letters of proSacco-Vanzetti defense committees were formed in Boston, New York Baltimore and other cities. The daily press, especially toward the last, deYet voted many columns to the case. even so the facts were not fully spread before the public in this country. The Bridgewater case, which was a foundation stone of the whole prosecution, was virtually ignored. Almost nothing was told about the lives, the characters, the conduct of these two men. The American public for the most part, shrugged its shoulders.

On the Boston "Globe" there was a reporter named Gardner Jackson. Like many other Boston newspaper men, he was convinced of the innocence of these men. He was persuaded that they were being railroaded to their death because their political convictions were unwelcome to the sovereign State of Massachusetts. He saw, or has said he believed he saw, that hate and fear were at the bottom of this persecution. And so, when dissension arose among the defense committees, as so often happens in belligerent groups, he stepped into the breach, gave up his job as reporter, and without pay assumed the chairmanship of the Boston Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee.

That committee has continued to work to the present day. The Jackson-Felicani committee however had nothing to do with instigating The Outlook's investigation of the Bridgewater

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Volume 150, Number 10, THE OUTLOOK AND INDEPENDENT, November 7, 1928. 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 countries 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.

WILLIAM G. THOMPSON, whose interview heads this issue, was Chief Counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti in the last phases of that case. Of an old New England family, he is an ex-Assistant United States District Attorney and is one of Boston's best known and most respected lawyers. His statements presented herewith illuminate and confirm the proofs of Vanzetti's innocence of the Bridgewater crime which were printed in the last issue of The Outlook and Independent. No statement from the prosecution will be found in this number because up to the hour of going to press no word has been received from Governor Fuller in response to our letter to him, except an acknowledgment of its receipt.

MEANWHILE, we are glad to echo Mr. Ellery Sedgwick's plea for justice to the Catholic Church for its conduct in this election. In pursuance of it we

are printing an article on the subject by a man who ought to know all about it, Mr. George Shuster, Assistant Editor of the "Commonweal," well known Catholic weekly.

WE KNOW Mr. Shuster personally, and asked him some time ago, as a public service, to make clear much that was not clear to us about his church. We think his article is a step in that direction, and a most necessary one. Certainly, the conduct of the great body of priests of the American Catholic Church under fire has been most gallant, and whether it is a result of discipline or of Christian forbearance, it is worthy of Protestant recognition. Once the election is over, we think most people will recognize it. Religion has no place in American politics.

AS FOR the election itself, it is now practically on the knees of the gods. Our periodic education in political matters is over. America, industrially and socially speaking, can go ahead once more. This is a good thing, for the business of politics is a small part of the adventure of life.

THE OUTLOOK and Independent looks forward to an interesting winter.

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