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4 THAYER T0 HEAR ‘PETITIONS MONDAY Sacco-Vanzetti Plans Three Moves to Halt Execution. (Continued from First Page) ce of State ief of pol Scott, a miah F. Gallivan, ¢l Braintree, told John policeman to whom he turned over the | cap, that “Gallivan himself made the tears and holes in the lining in an effort to find some identification mark. the lining being intact at the time of delivery of the cap to Gallivan.” On the bullet evidence the motion psserts that an amdavit by ¥ield sets forth that Capt H. Proctor in_a conversation “one I milton” on Augu: two vears after the men were con victed, “said in substance that h had a positive opinion that tha bull in question was not fired through th defendant, Sacco’s sun” and that he had so told the rict a‘torney and his assistant Want Mere Time. The petition to the governor for a stay of execution on the grou *“that it will be impossibie with exercise of utmost di ce to obtain a hearing and ¢ gion” on the vari ous motions made in the court The petition g of habeas corpus rges that and Va ti are rained of their | of their constitu- on of the fact ers have not with 3, Sacco endent as the | v will pe or have procesdings whereby vour peti tioners have been condemned con gtituted such a judicial deiermination of their as to be due process mit, gu umanno, o-Vanzet fen 10 filed the motion for a new tr Dedham, said that | no move weuld be made in any Fed-| eral court i} el for the de.| fense had exh: all recourse to! the State courts. In the d prison, co first day of his zetti, who ha of this time. soc house at co ted the State | the twenty- Van. | part | 5 to after a | Bridge | worn . who. Point looked walk over from and weary. Confer With Justi Arthur D. Hill. Boston attorney who | was retained Thursday to act for the | defense in the famous case. went to | Fitchburg today wi as Field, who | has figur bring about a new tria and Vanzetti. | Their conf with Chief Justice Hall lasted an hour and Mr. Hill requested the tice to hear the defense motion for but he wa for Judge hiad presided at the trial. tice Hall then communicated Judge Thayer and learned that latte: come to Dedham. It was not made clear what the na-| ture of the defense motion would be, chief justice remarking that Judge Thayer wou!d hear any motion that might be presented in the Sacco-Van- zetti case. The judge will be in court et 2 o'clock Mond: afternoon. the Prison Cambridge, enco the GOVERNMENT READY TO DEPORT ALIENS | GUILTY OF VIOLENCE | (Continued from First Page.) which the inspectors are checking up. Pending a decision as to whether the Department of Justice may be swung into action under the deportation law, there was every indication that Gov- ernment agencies were taking great precaution in the guarding of Gov- ernment property, and high officials who mav have been singled out by eny possible or tion of radicals, of by an individualist spurred on by the Sacco-Vanzetti agitation. Esplonage Law Obsolete. The Government could not now re- port to the espionage law of war time, es most of its provisions have been repealed by Congress, and it is con- videred virtually out of the question. There was much activity under the espionage law during the war and shortly thereafter, but the need for it having passed with peace, it is now considered a dead letter. The deportation law, however, in the enforcement of which the Department of Justice joined the Department of Labor following the bomb outrages, Including the attack on the home of Alien Property Custodian A. Mitchell Palmer of this city, is still in full force and, officials point out, a most potent act. Co-operation between the two de- partments under this law in the previ- ous period followed a series of out- rages. Chief of these was the sensational bombing of the Palmer house on the night of June 2, 1919, when a man carrying the high explosive was blown to bits him: The residence itself was badly damaged. Prior to the Palmer incident a number of bombs had been sent through the mails. Offi- vials thought from various bits of evi- dence collected that there was an ap- parently concerted effort on the part of some group to institute a relgn of terror. A campaign was launched, &nd arrests we ade of radicals and suspects. In November, 1919, a large number of the Union of Russlan Workers, confessed anarchists, were rounded up. In January, 1920, the Communists and Communist Labor party were investigited, and a large number of arrests were made. Groups of these radicals were found in De- troit, Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh end other large cities of the East, but tivities were not found to extend far West. Deportations Recalled. s the homb explosion in when an old rickety Lorse. which had been » in front of the United btrea: and opposite the P. Morgan, were i both buildings 6 damaged powerful explo- in the wagon. The driver of the con was never apprehended. The Government focussed its atten- tion on the Communist party of 1321 althouzn, ac- this group to be directly con- bomb outrages, so far as could determined. This Commuynist party of 1921 later came out in the open and is now known as Party of America, as a cording was not found nected with any Aized 1 frankly connected with Internationale at Moscow. ations of large numbers of aliens took place following the round- ups by the Departments of Justice. The largest group, gent off on the ship Beaufort, w passengers included Emma Goldman and Alexander B g Among the persons later deported under the provisions of the law was Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, self-styled ambassador from the Soviet govern- ment, who was never recognized by the United St Defense| ® | review { outsiders during the trinl | think - opinion that it is not so | terial | Judge Anderson of the United States | rested. ty, presenting candidates | THE SUNDAY REPORT OF GOVERNOR'S BOARD DEFENDS MASSACHUSETTS JUDGE ‘Thayer Held Indiscreet in Talk to Out- siders, But Sacco-Vanzetti Trial By the Associated Press DBOSTON, August ster Thayer of the Superior Court was | conversation with outsiders dur | Sacco-Vanzettl tyial” but in his con Quet of the case the judke U | “scrupulously fatr.” the advisory | mittee named by Gov. Alvan T. I to conduct an_independent inveatsa- | tion of the trial reported. The findings of the committee, which was made up of President A. Law. rence Lowell of Harvard. President | 6.—-Judze Maesa “indiscreet Web con- 18 | sgamuel Stratton of Massachuseits In- |1y William | stitute of Technology and former | Judge Robert Graft of tha Probate Court, were made public at the State | House tonight. Report Holds Two Guilty. o! The committee found that the trfal|® of Nicola co and Bartolomeo V zetti, at Dednam in 1921 for murder, | was fairly conducted. It was of opinion | that all the evidence given in support | |t the various motions for a new trial as inadequate to impress a should retrial be granted. After o of the testimony it concluded Sacco and Vi zettl were | ilty beyond a reasonable doubt. | 'he committee have seen mo evi-| dence sufficient to make them belicve | that the trial was unfair,” the report | on the subject of the Dedham pr “On the contrary, they | are of the opinion that the judse en- | deavored, and endeavored succes for the defendants a the district attorney way suiity of unpr 1 behavior: that he conducted the osecution vigorously, but not in { ind that the fury. a capable, | nd unprejudiced body, did, | were instructed. ‘weil and | tiy and trus deliverance make. Judge Is Upheld. on charges of bias which | th anzetti defense committee had made against Judse Thayer, the ittee reported: om all that has come to us we ! are forced to conclude that the judge | iscreet in o ation with He ought | not to have talked about the case off | he bench, and doing so was a grave | breach of officlal decorum. Lut we do | not believe that he used some of the i that both that n any tri sic impartial was | expressions attributed to him, and we | ¥ that there is exagzeration in what the persons to whom he spoke remember. Furthermore, we believe that such indiscretions in conversation did not affect his conduct at the trial or the opinions of the jury. who, in- deed. =0 stated to the committee | After congidering all the evidence given in support of the v: ous mo- tions for a new trial.” the report said in another place, “we ara of the rave, ma- and relevant as to afford a probability that it would be a real 2ctor with the jury in reaching a de- cision.” The committee reviewed missed allegations that Dis ney Katzmann had unduly emph: sized the fact that Sacco and Va: zetti are radicals and that there had been collusion between State and Federal authorities to “railroad” the two men. It found that the alibis presented on behalf of both Sacco and Vanzett! were not supported. Fairness Is Apparent. Says the report: To us the reading of the steno- graphic report of the trial gives the impression that the judge tried to be scrupulously fair. “The cross-examination by Mr. Katzmann of the defendant Sacco on the subject of his political and social views, seems, at fir: unnecessarily harsh, and designed rather to preju- dice the jury against him than for the legitimate purpose of testing the sincerity of his statements thereon; but it must be remembered that the position at that time was very differ- ent from what it is now. We have heard so much about the Commu- nistic or radical opinions of these two men that it is hard to put ourselves back into the position that they, and particular] 8acco, occupled at the time of the trial. There had been presented by the Government a cer- tain amount of evidence of identifica tion, and other circumstances tending to connect the prisoners with the murder, of such a character that—to- gether with their being armed to the teeth and the falsehoods they stated when arrested—would, in the case of New England Yankees, almost cer- tainly have resulted in a verdict of murder in the first degree—a result which the evidence for the alibis was not likely to overcome. Under these circumstances it seemed necessary to the defendants’ counsel to meet the inferences to be drawn by these false- hoods by attributing them to a cause other than the consciousness of guflt ot the South Braintree murders. Warned By Judge. rom the statements before the committee by the judge and by one of the counsel for the defendants it appears that Judge Thayer suggested, out of the presence of the jury, that the counsel should think seriously be- fore introducing evidence of radicalism which was liable to . prejudice the jury; but at that stage of the case the counsel thought the danger of con- viction so great that they put Sacco and Vanzetti on the stand to explain that their behavior at and after their arrest was due to fear for themselves or their friends of deportation or prose- cution on account of their radical ideas, conduct and associations, and not to consciousness of guilt of the murder at South Braintree. “We have already remarked that at the present moment their views on these subjects are well known, but they were not so clear at the time. Save for his association with Vanzett] and his own word on direct examina. tion, in the case of Sacco, there was | no certainty that he entertained any such sentiments. The United States authoritles, who were hunting for | reds, had found nothing that would justity deportation or other proceed. ings against either of these two men, Except the call for a meeting found in his pocket there was no evidence that Sacco had taken a prominent part in public meetings, or helonged to any socleties of that character; and al. though wholesale arrests of reds—for- tunately stopped by the decision of and dis- fct Attor- Circuit Court—had recently been made in southeastern Massachusetts, these men had not been among those ar- Abnormal Iear Existed. “At that time of abnormal fear and credulity on the subfect little evi- dence was required to prove that any one was a dangerous radical, harm- less professors and students in our col- leges were accused of dangerous opinions, and it was almost inevitable that any one who declared himself a radical, possessed of inflammatory literature, would be instantly believed. For these reasons, Mr. Katzmann was justified in subjecting Mr. Sacco to Tigorous cross-examination to deter- mine whether his profession that he and his friends were radicals liable to deportation was true, or was merely fense, the exceptions taken to his questions were not sustained by the Supreme Court. ““It has been sald that while the acts and language of the judge, as they appear in the stenographic report, seem to be correct, yet his attitude I 0. fed to be | ior | | {the & |on tha [ to show | of Sacco, They state that the fudge tried the cass fairly: that they ind ndead, i o the that they did not entered the ju thelr verdict whether n asic ho thought the defendants fnnocent or | Natural to Form Cpinicn. “AMdavits were presented to the Jmmittee and witnesses were heard to the effect th the judge, during and atter the trial, had expressed his opinfon of guilt in vigorous terms. udics means an opinfon or senti ment before the trial. That a judge wuld form an opinfon as the evi- nee comes in {8 inevitable, and not 1\ to the notice of the jury, inced waa true in this case. ¢ * * “In one cf the motions for a new tial My. Thompson. now counsel for fense, contended that between tha district attorney and ofl s of the United States secret s en 3 d in investigating radical move- there hnd been collusion for Purpose either of deporting these d:fendants as radicals or of murder, and thus of getting them out of the way, that with this ob t Mr. Katz. mann agreed to cre mine them ubject of their opinions, and hat the files of the Federal Depart- ce contain material tend- s we are t ment of Jus ing to show the inn nd Vanzetti, In support of he filed affidavits by Weyand. Letherman hich declaved that the filos of the 1 Department of Justice would show the correspondence that took place in the prepavation of the wso: hut nome of these afdavits tes or implies that there s any- thing in those files which would help that the d nts are not guilty. For the Government to sup- press evidence or innocence would be mo wi cvidence wrong. M. k Ruz to support it Is ., in answer to a question by Mr. Thompson, stated to the committee that the Federal De- partment had nothing to do with the prep: tion of the case, and there is no 1easen to suppose that the Federal rew the evidence he pos He stated also that he made no agreement with them about ‘the amination. Spy Placed in Cell. hout. “g spy named Carbone was, in- deed, placed in a cell mext to that and it was stated in an agreement of subsequent counsel that this was to get from him information relating to the South Braintree mur- der. But Mr. Katzmann, in answer to a question by Mr. Thompson, in- forms uc that that is a mistake; that the Fe .cral auhorities wanted to put a man there with the hope of getting information about the explosion in Wall Street. To this he and the sheriff consented, but no information was, in fact, obtained. “Before the committee Mr. Thomp- son euggested that the al bullet shown at the trial as the one taken from Berardelli's body, and which caused his death, was not genuine: that the police had substituted it for another in order by false exhibit to convict these men. But In this case again he offered no credible evi- dence for his suspicion. Such an ac- cusation, devoid of proof, may be dis- missed without further comment, save that the case of the defendants must be rather desperate on its merits when counsel feel it necessary to resort to a charge of this kind. “Again, it i8 allezed that the whole atmosphere of the courtroom and its surroundings, with the armed police and evident precautions, were such as to prejudice the jury at the out- set; while the remark of the judge to the talesmen that they must do their duty as the soldier hoys did in the war was of a nature to incline them against thoe prisoners, the jury do not seem to have been consclous of any such influence, or of the presence of any unusual number of police. Nor do they appear to have entered upon the case with the slightest pre. disposition in favor of the prosecu- tion, some of them, at least, very far from jt. We do not think these al- legations have a serious founda- tion* s + e Judge Under Strain. Discussing the point “whether on account of newly discovered evidence any of the motions for a new trial should have been granted,” the re- port says: “As _exceptions to the denial by the judge of these motions have heen taken to the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth, they have. not been sustained there; but the counsel for the defendants contend that the Supreme Court decided cnly that ti:ese matters were properly within the dis- cretion of the judge, and that nis discretion had not been abused. They urged, therefore, that while the Judge’s discretion was not lllegally, it was in fact wrongly, exercised, be- cause he was too prejudiced to be impartial; and that a whelly fmpartial exercise of discretion would have brought an order for a new trial. “There can be no doubt that the judge has been subjected to a very severe strain. Apart from the respon- sibllity that he has borne, the nature of criticlsms made upon him has had its effect: and the committee zre of opinfon that while there is no suffi- clent evidence that his capacity to decide rightly the questions hefore him in this case has been impaired, nevertheless he has been in a dis- tinctly nervous condition. The com- mittee have felt constrained, there- fore, to examine the motions for a new trial and the evidence on which they are based with a view to de- termining whether in {heir opinion the discretion of the fudge on each motion was in fact rightly exercised.” Cartridges’ Effect Minimized. Referring to the much disputed fact that the jury foreman had in his pocket at the trial three cartridges of the same kind as were found in . zetti's revolver, the report states “Another motion for a new trial is based upon the fact that Walter Ripley, the foreman of the jury, hap- pened to have in his pocket through- out the trial three 38-caliber revolver cartridges of the same kind as those found in the revolver of Vanzettl when arrested. The Supreme Court in the case of that motion, as of others, held that the refusal of a new trial was within the discretion of the judge; but, as we have observed, this does not decide that his discretion was rightly exercised. There is no evidence that the presence of these cartridges did influence the opinion of the jury; but the question for us is whether it may reasonably have done so, and we do not see how it could Lave had any such effect. “It was suggested by Albert H. Hamliiton, who made an affidavit as an expert, that the jury might nave derived from these cartridges an er- roneous opinion as to the age of those found in Vanzetti's revolver. It is not easy to see how thay could have formed any such opinion or what material significanco there is assumed for the purpose of the de-|in the age of the Vanzetti cartridges. The presence of these objects in the Jury room may have been egular, but we do not sce how it could have changed the result of, the trial, and if so, the judge ought not in justice to have ordered a new trial on that ground. A new machine cleans eggs with an fartificial sandstorm, and emphasis conveyed a different im- pression. But the jury do not think * “Under the same motion was intro- duced an afidavit by Willam H. ', rived no | soma of them went STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, AUGUST 7, 1927—PART 1. SCENES IN BALTIMORE AND NEW YORK EXPLOSIONS Judicial if not in any way brought | | and rous, and to make such a charge | | when | be Daly wherein he that Ripley, summoned s talesman, in er o the question by him her bo was to be a juror in this replied, ‘Damn them, they ought to hang them, any way.' Now it is extremely improbable that Rip- ley was so different from other men that he destred the dieagrecable task of serving on this jury, and he had only to roveal what he had said to a. . in spite of a selective process in making up the jury ro rizorous that out cf the first 500 talesmen only 7 were taken, he was one of these. He did not live to contradict the siatement, and we helieve that Daly must have misunderstood him or that his recollection Is at fault.” Did Not Confess Murder. vd to the Madei report has this to he question whether a2 new trial ought to have been granted in consequence of the confession of Madeiros depends upon the weight which to it, dence offered in corroboration. impression has gone abroad 1 Medi confessed committing the murder at South Braintree. Strangely enough, this & not really the . He confesses to being pres- ent, but not to being guilty of the murder. That Is, he says that he, as a youih of 18, s induced to go with the others without knowing where he was going, or what was to be done, there was to be a hoid-up h would not involve killing; and he took no part fn what was In short, if he were tried, his n_ confession, if wholly believed, would not be sufficient for a verdict of murder in the first degree. * * et “Indeed, in his whole testimony there is only one fact that can be checked up as showing a_personal knowledge of what really happened. and that was his statement that after the murder the car stopped to ask the way at tho house of Mrs. Hewins at the corner of Oak and Orchard streets in Randolph. As this house was not far from the place on a nearby road where Madeiros subsequently lived he mizght well have heard the fact men- tioned. Holds Former Opinion. “There remains a reference to new evidence brought before the committee and not hereinbefore considered. The only two matters that seem to us significant are as follows: The counsel for the defendants produced Albert H. Hamilton and Elias Field, who in- formed the committee that in an auto- mobile ride Capt. Proctor had toid Hamilton that in his real opinion the fatal bullet had not been fired through Sacco's pistol. After the time of this conversation Capt. Proctor made the affidavit already refe 1 to, and in that, after quoting his testimony at the trial— \ “Q. What is your opinion? A. My opinion is that it is consistent with being fired by that pistol. “He says: “That is still my opinion.’ It seems to us improbable that Capt. Proctor, who has since died, should have stated both at the trial and in his affidavit that his opinion was con- stent with the firing of the bullet from Sacco’s pistol, and in the mean- while should have said in conversation that his opinfon was exactly the opposite. One of the witnesses, Field, merely overheard Proctor's conversa- tion with Hamilton about a subject with which he was not familiar; and the latter stated also to the committee that Proctor told him that he believed betore the trial the bullet was rot fired through the Sacco pistol, which would be an admission. not of a mis- leading statement, but of deliberate perjury. This charge is inconsistent with Proctor’s later affidavit, and we do not helieve Hamilton's testimony on this point. Tear Held Insignificant, “The other significant new matter brought to the attention of the com- mittee by the counsel for the defense is the statement of Jeremiah F. Gal- livan, former chief of police of Brain- tree, who sald that in the cap found near the body of Berardelli and claimed by the prosecuting counsel to be that of Sacco, the rent attributed by them to its hanging upon a nail in the factory, was in fact made by him in attempting to find a name un- der the lining before he delivered the cap to the officers investigating the case. This statement we believe to be true, but the rent in the lining of the cap is so trifling a matter in the evidence in the case that it seems to the committee by no means a ground for a new trial. ¢ * *” g In the case of Sacco the chief cir- cumstances are as follows: He looks so much like one of the gang who committed the murder that a number of witnesses are sure that he is the man, Others disagree; but at least his general appearance is admitted even by identity to resemble one of the men who took part in the affair. Then a cap is found on the ground near the body of the man he is accused of Kkilling, which bears a resemblance in color and general appearance to those he was in the habit of wearing, and when tried in court fitted—that is, his head was the size of one of the men who did the shooting. Then there is the fact that a pistol that Berardelli had been in the habit of carrying, and which there is no sufficient reason to suppose was not in his possession at the time of the murder, disappeared and a pistol of the same kind was found in the possession of Vanzetti when he and Sacco were arrested to- gether, and of which no satisfactory explanation ig glven. Pistol Was Not Found, “It s difficult to suppose that Beravdelli was not carrying his pistel at the time he was guarding the pay- master with the payroll, and no pistol was found upon his person after his In re s angle the death. It is natural, als dits saw his pistol they should carry ! it off for fear of some one “hytt many of those who deny the!fl Upper: Rear view of home of Mayor William F. Broening, 3600 Fair. view avenue, Baltimore, Md., showing damage caused by bomb which was exploded under the pantry. blown out by Lowe! of the I. R. T. The bomb wrecked the pantry, the rear wall, and set fire to the house. ‘the force of the explosion. Damage caused by bomb explosion in the Fourth Avenue Station badly cracked them as they escaped. Moreover, when Sacco was arrested he had vistol which is admitted to be the kind from whici the fatal bullet was fired. In the controversy between the experts, one side striving to show that the bullet must have been, and the other side that it could not have been fired through that pistol, we are in- clined from an inspection of the photo- graphs to believe that the former are right; if they are, there could be lit- tle or no doub en if there were no evidence—that the owner of the pistol fired the shot. But even if we assume that all expert evidence on such sub- jects is more or less unreliable, we can be sure that the shot was fired by the kind of pistol in possession of Sacco. Then, again, the fatal bullet found in Berardelli's body was of a type no longer manufactured, and so obsolete that the defendants’ expert witness, Burns, testified that with the help of two assistants, he was unable to find such bullets for purposes of experiment; yet the same obsolete type ot cartridges was found in Sacco's pockets on his arrest. It is true that the expert Hamilton deposed that in these rtridges the knurls were true with the of the bullet, while in the fatal bullet they were at an angle of three degrees, which led him to be- lieve that they must have been manu- factured at different times. But the expert Robinson—himself a ballistic engineer in the Winchester factory where these bullets were made— wholly refuted this statement by show- ing that the fatal bullet was so de- formed that it was impossible to de- termine its original axis within three degrees and that the Winchester com- pany had never manufactured bullets with knurls not parallel to their axes. Such a coincidence of the fatal bullet and those found on Sacco would, if accidental, certainly be extraor- aiihey. * & ¥ “Finally, there is the fact that both of them were armed for quick action when arrested. Sacco had a fully loaded automatic pistol front of the belt of his trousers 22 spare cartridges in his pocket zetti had a fuliy loaded .38-calibe volver. It is claimed that Italians, particularly those who get into crim- inal difficulties, commonly carry weapons, but carrying fully loaded firearms, where they can be most quickly drawn, can hardly be common among a people whose views are pacifist and opposed to all violence. “Such a condition cannot be ex- plained by the fear of being arrested as rcds, nor did the defendants at- tempt to set up such an excuce. In- could hardly have alleged went fully armed in order epared to shoot ofilcers who d to arrest them for the re: . anzetti declared that he c ed a pistol because there were So many rollerics and other crimes; Sacco that he put his pistol in the belt of his trousers to fire away the cartridges in the woods the day he was arrested, but that in conversation ho was detained from doing so, had forgotten about his pistol and was quile unconscious that he had it in the belt of his trousers. That state- ment seems. incredible. “Guilty Beyond Reasonable Doubt.” “On these grounds the committee are of opinion that Sacco was guil beyond reasonabie doubt of the mur- der at South Braintree. In reaching this conclusion they are aware that it involves a disbelef in the evidence of his alibi at Boston, but in view of all the evidence they do not believe he was there that day. “The evidence against Vanzettl Is somewhat different. Hls useociation with Sacco tends to show that he be- longed to the same group. His hav- ing a pistol resembling the one for- merly possessed by Berardelli has some importance, and the fact that no cartridges for it were found in his possession except those in it nificant. So also is his having Pittsburg WAY DURING AUGUST ONLY Places in Your Home Any AUTOMATIC GAS WATER HEATER —and there is a size for every home. Call or see your plumber, the Gas Co., or EDGAR MORRIS SALES CO. Factory Distributors Main 1032-1033 Pittsburg [j-‘ Storage Heater Police Take Extra Precautions in All Parts of World By the Associated Press. Throughout the world extraordi- nary precautions are being taken herever police think it necessary tr avold repetition of such inci- dents as the bombing of two New York subway stations, supposedly Ly Sacco-Vanzetti symputhizers. New York's 14,000 polica have heen put on 14-hour shifts, all va- cations revoked and days off can- celed and heavy guards put on duty at subway, railroad, elevated tions, prominent buildings and strateglc points. (loge gcrutlny of storage places of e ordered, with daily check of all withdrawn under per- mit. Prompt report ordered of any suspleious circumstances in connec tion with fires, especially there is any of " explosive origin. BOMBING THREAT MADE OVER PHONE Authorities Guard Federal Building in Chicago After Message. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, August f.—A telephoned threat to bomb the Federal Building | here today aroused authorities to take drastic action to prevent a Sacco- Vanzetti demonstration of violenc Government agents armed with au tomatic shotguns began patrolling the Police Sleep in Stations. BOSTON.—Natlonal Guardsmen patrol Federal Bullding, public is ‘Windows in nearby homes were limited to use of one door only of post office, police vacations revoked and policemen ordored to sleep on cots at_stations instead of going home when off duty RAPID CITY, Dalk.—Presi. dent’s civillan guard increases vigi- ce, but is not reinforced; mili tary zuard Increased from one to three men PHILADELPHIA.—Clubs, churches, subways, elevated and trolley lines and prominent bulld- ings placed under police guard UTIMORE.—Guards ordersd to surround public buildings: addi- tional police ordered to att meetings of Sacco-Vanzetti thizers. Heavy Guard for Prince. BUFFALO.—Orde ned for inspection of all rians on International Pea ge after 1 pm. Sunday and heavy guard ar- ranged to protect Prince of Wales, Premfer Baldwin, Vice President Dawes and Secretary Kellogs dur- ing dedication ceremonies. CHICAGO.—Twent/-three Fed- eral ngents hegin night and day wateh of Federal buildings and are ordered to choot first and ask ques- tions afterward in_emergency. CLEVELAND.—Marines and de- tectives ordered to guarl Federal Building. SAN Catholle Church and Paul. previously placed under guard. PARIS.—Parade of Sacco-Van- zotti sympathizers banned: United States embassy and consulate under guard. Embassy Guard Remforced. LONDON.—Special Scotland Yard force responsible for safety of em- bassles and legations is reinforced. BERLIN.—Deputations of com- munists and socialists refused ad- mittance to the United States em- bassy; American buildings guarded. STOCKHOLM.—Government for- bids demonstration in front of United States embassy. BUENOS AIRES.—Business houses close to avoid dai.age by Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers. LOWELL, Mass.—Special police put on full-time duty around court buildings and personal guards as sign=d to_judges. ALBANY, N. Y.—Loitering for- bidden near State and city build- ings. ANNAPOLIS, Md.—Police detail FRANCISCO. —Roman of Saints Peter bombed, cartridges loaded with buckshot, of which account sounds improbable, and which m/ght well have been used in the gun some witnesses saw sticking out ot the k of the car. His falsehoods and his armed condi- tion have a weight similar to that in the case of Sacco. In one way they are a little stronger, because he vir- tually confirmed a statement of Offi- cer Connolly that he tried to draw his pistol when airested, for ho testi- fied that the officer pointed a re- volver at him and said, ‘You don't move, vou dirty thing'—an admission that the officer thought he was mak- ing a movement toward his pistol. On the other hand, all these actons may be accounted for by conscious- ness of guilt of the attempted yob- bery and murder at Bridgewater, of which he has been convicted. Alibi Held Weak. “The alibi of Vanzetti is decidedly weak. One of the witnesses, Rosen, seems to the committee to have been shown by the cross examination to be Iying at the trial; another, Mrs. Brini, had sworn to an alibi for him in the Bridgewater case, and two more of the witnesses did not seem certain of the date until they had talked it over. Under these circumstances, if he was with Sacco, or in_the bandit's car, or indeed in South Braintree at all that day, he was undoubtedly guilty; for there is no reason why, if he iwere there for an innocent purpose, he should have sworn that he was in Plymouth all & Now there are four persons to testify that they had seen him—Doll- beare, who says he saw him in the morning in cap on the main street of South Braintree: Levangie, who d he saw him—erroneously at the wheel—as the car crossed the tracks after the shooting and Austin T. Reed, who says that Vanzetti swore at him from the car at Matfield railroad crossing. ‘The fourth man was Faulk- ner, who testified that he was asked a question by Vanzetti in a smoking car on the way from Plymouth to South Braintree on the forenoon of the day of the murders, and that he saw him alight at that station. “Faulkner's testimony is impeached on two grounds; first that he said the car was a combination smoker and baggage car, and that there was no such car on that train, but his descrip- tion of the interior is exactly that of a full smoking car: and, second, that no ticket that could be so used was sold that morning at any of the sta- tions in or near Plymouth, and that no such cash fare was paid or mile- age book punched, but that does not exhaust possibilities, otherwise no one claims to have seen him, or any man resembling him who was not Van- zetti. But it must be remembered, that his face is much more unusual and more easily remembered than that of Sacco. 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Postal sub stations also were unde The threat of v ceived by Charles N | the Government buildi “Look out,” said a vc do to you what we did The reference was to the bombing of the post office in 1915 whe | persons were ed and 30 following the sentencing of several Industrial Wetk: World A protest mesting, described as part of a natlonal demonstration the execution of Sacco and V | 1s to be held here Tuesday n PROTEST IN MILWAUKEE Two Thousand Tale ¥ Wisconsin Demonstration. MILWAUKEE, Wis., August 8 (@) sting against_the execution of acco and Bartolomeo Van- 500 Milwaukee men and women d in the court house squ today. Local speakers urged that cingmen everywhere refrain from lence in their eleventh-hour efforts to save the doomed men. Joseph P. Cannon of New York, national secretary of the fndustrial labor movement for defense, = tempted to spur_ the Milwar workers to strike during the co w . but the workers passed with out a dissenting vote, a resolution that | any overt act could not demned men, but would prejud case against them BOMBING IS THR TENED. iuards Assigned to Cleveland Federal Building After Warning. CLEVELAND. August 6 (@ Postal inspectors and city detectives today were séeking the sender of a letter to Postmaster Harry A. Tay- lor, threatening to bomb the Federal building here if the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti is carrled out. Existence of the known today when nounced for protecting the buil A detail of Marines probably will be assigned to guard the building Monday, and city detectives will ba stationed at all entrances, it was re- vealed by Frank E. Dou tant postmaster. MINING TIE-UP FEARED. plans v Colorado Officials Investigate Report of Radical Influen DENVER, Colo., Investigation was begun today by the State Industrial Com on of that a complete tie-up of the sou ! Colorado coal flelds is the objecti of the I. W. W. on September 1 Thomas Annear, chairman of the commission, said that during the Summer Iuil in coal mining the I. W, W. organizers have heen active and have built up a small membershi He said the United Mine Worlkers, which has some members in southern Colorado, was opposed to a_strike. He sent a commissioner to Wallsen: berg to learn the facts behind the reports coming to the commission of I. W. W. strike activities. Sacco-Vanzetti Piea. DES MOINES, Ta.. August 6 (#). Pleas for commutation of the Sacco. Vanzetti death sentence to life im- prisonment were wired to Gov. Fuller of Massachusetts today by J. C. Lewis, president of the lowa State Federation of Labor, and Milo Reno, president of the Iowa Farmers Union BOMB FOUND IN MONTEVIDEO. August 6 (P).— rn ve Placed in Front of Branch Office of American Bank. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay. August § (#)—The police announced this e ning that the package found by watchman today in front of the tlonal City Bank of New York b building contained a poweriul hidden inside of a larze can The package was taken to the mili tary proving ground and exploded Pieces of iron and buckshot were hurled 200 yards The police withheld the news This gave rise to reports that the alarm was unfounded and that it was a joke. German Labor Protests, BERLIN, August 6 (®.—The Ger man Labor Federation, which has a membership of 5,750,000, today tele- graphed the American embassy to pro- test against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, “not because we on principle are opposed to capital punish- ment, but because we are convinced that the two men are not guilty o a crime warranting such a barl penalty nch ab guilty beyond reasonable doubt. “If has been urged that a crime of this kind must have been committed by professionals, and it is for.all well known criminal gangs that one must look; but to the committee both this crime and the one at Bridge water do not seem to bear the marks of professionals. but of men in expert in such crime: The Bank that Makes You a Loan with a Smile The terms of Morris Plan Loans are simple and practical and fair —it is not neccessary to have had an account at this Bank to borrow. Loans are pass- ed within a day or two after filing application— with few excep- tions. 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