New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 11, 1927, Page 3

DRAMATIG SGENES AT CHARLESTOWN fovernor’s Comncil Reluctant to Grant Reprieves Boston, Aug. 11 (A —Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were to have gone to their deaths in the electric chair at Charlestown state prison early this morning, today fac- ed 13 more days of life by virtue of rvespites that came just 15 minutes before the hour of their doom. A third respite stayed for an equal length of time the death of Celestino Madeiros, convicted of another mur- der and self-identified with the case of the other two. The drgmatic announcement from the state house climaxed a day charged with greater tension perhaps than any other day in the vears the celebrated case has been hefore the courts of Massachusetts. Dramatic Announcement It came after Governor Alvan T. Fuller, who once before had respited the condemned men and who only last Wednesday had turned down plea for clemency after a long inves- tigation, has presented to his coun- cil new reasons for delay. Those reasons, contention of Arthur D. Hill, of de- fense counsel that a few more days were needed to prosecute his 11th hour fight through the remaining le- gal channels, and the decision of Justice George A. Sanderson of the state supreme court to defer until today anmouncement of his decision whether to permit the defense to ap- peal to the full bench of the high court of exceptions taken to his earlier denial of a writ of error in favor of the condemned men. An intimation that that decision might be favorable was interpreted in the announcement by Richard Murray, messenger for the state su- preme court, that ha was telegraph- ing members of the high tribunal that a session would be held either next Monday or Tuesday. But it was only an intimation, and in the absence of any word from Justice Sanderson, flhose close to the court would not venture a prediction what his course might be. The reprieves came not a minute too soon, for the defrnse’s hope of posible intervention by the federal courts seemed blasted when from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the United States supreme court and from Judge Georgze W. Anderson of the United States circuit court, came announcements that they would en- tertain no motions for writs of | habeas corpus. Justice Holres declared he could | seven | in brief, were the | the men to go to their deaths while posible court action was yet open to their attorney: Mr. Hill had made such represen- | tations to the governor and had | convinced him that there remained | a possibility that the case could be | carried to the supreme court. The second bright spot of the day came when Justice Sanderson announced after hearing both sides of the case that he would rule today on the question of allowing exceptions to his denial of the right to be carried to the entire bench. Under Massachusetts statute this is not nossible unless the justtce who has made the adverse decision | so decrees. | In the meantime the governor had summoned a council of former at- torney generals of the state. He was closeted with them for nearly two hours. Shortly thereafter the evecutive council met but, because the gover- nor was not yet ready, it recessed until later in the afternoon. While | the governor was explaining the I newest developments in the case, | Mr. Hill was in Beverely presenting | his plea to Mr. Justice Holmes. | Hope Once Given Up. | When he emerged from that con- | ference, a cryptic announcement; scemed to indicate that hope was | Fone. *“No human power—at the present time—can stop them,” he replied fn response to a question | whether the doomed men would go | to the chair at midnight. | But later he qualified his state- | | ment by saying, *“Of course, the | governor cay grant a respite ..nh | the supreme court can act.” Hill sped from Beverly back to! | Boston and early 1in the night wa brought by the governor hefore the | executive council to explain his re- | quest for a further stay of execu- tion. There were fndications that some | members of the council were r ant to approve of any stay eventually all voted ves. While at the state house the gov- | ernor and his advisors were occu- pied with the weighty problem of | deciding whether to grant the inter- | nationally known prisoners a sec- ond respite, and at the Charlestown | state prison an army of guards was taking up post on the walls and in the adjoining streets in anticipatlon | | of possible trouble. police elsewhere | were coping with disturbance of an- | other nature. Sacco-Vanzett! sympathizers ms of them freshly ed in the cf took up self-assigned . picket duty along Beacon strect in front of the state capitol, where on the previos day other profestants, similary | equipped with derisive placards and | hlack armbands had heen arrested. | As on Monday, exactly 39 of the | | ickets were taken into custody and a number of others dispersed by the hu( | | | | | | tions which | testified today in the dissolution suit | | dergo indignitles as FNEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THU RSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1927, 3 — Y, ———————————————— ————————— e | of the prison, shouting, “Hold that rmed to Justice Holmes of the United States Supreme Court and ejected from the prison, to which she had gained ingress as a repre- sentative of a weekly publication, when she was overheard using the prison telephone to communicate with the Sacco-Vanzetti committee. The picketing was the only un- toward incident of the day which, Lecause of a call that had gone out from radical sources for 100,000 “comrades” to converge on this city for a “death watch,” had been ex- pected might develop more serious potentialities. No large influx of the “comrades” was noted by police, however, and Boston continued to escape, as in the past, the violence of demonsira- have marked the pro- NEW DOLLAR BILLS o | Currency to Be Put in Circulation | Late Next February—Two-Thirds the Size of Present Bill. Washington, Aug. 11 (UP) — ’ Printing of Uncle Sam'’s new dollar | bill, two-thirds the size of the pres- ent one, probably will be started November 1 and be put in circula- tion late next I’ohruar)fil | The treasury department author- | ized the new sized currency several | months ago. | The new bills can be turned out | at the rate of 2,000,000 a day. Half of the bureau 300 workers will he employed in turning out the new bill, officials estimate. 1 Queen of David Is Testifying on Defense . Joseph, Mich., Aug. 11 (UR)— | (V\Mfin Ma Purnell, wife of King, Ven Purnell of the House of David, | against the religious colony. She was dressed in a light blue !gown of the mode of 20 years ago. She was quite composed even | though the courtroom was crowded. | lles,” she murmured Attorney William J. “Lies, lies, as Defense | Barnard repeated assertlons of state ses that immoralities and de- baucheries had prevalled in the re- ligious colony. She scornfully refuted the charges of dozen of women witnesses Wwho testified they had been forced to un- part of the taith taught by Purnell. RUM RU! SEIZED. New York, Aug| (A—Laden with 5,000 cases of liquor, valued at | 1$300,000 at bootleg prices, the Brit ish steel trawler Sebastolpol was sized today by the coast guard as| |she was passing the Narrows. The Mm“m- was towed under guard to State | Aug. | nounced that | Bartolomeo Vanzetti would not die | there was little indlcation outside gress of the casc in other sections. | he prison of the FEW ON STREETS T0 HEAR RESPITE More Police Than Civilians Near Charlestown Prison Prison, Charlestown, 11.—(A—When it was Nicola interest world in the fate of the two men. e apparent. d ident | Earlier in the evening it had become demonstration against the prison would be 5 ture. When the word | convicted men had drawn a lease ont life extending into other days to more police than vicinity of the Most of the small by ropes, a quarter of a mile the prison, that any a ges tomorrow, follow. there wer civilians in th prison 1 about th en attract Some came to look a and many of the girls, the vouths, to e mounted po. were more popular ‘teens, B: of the Mass., an- Sacco and of the came that the and owd held back | from seemed to be uninform- | e Their conversation did not indi- cate that they knew mu seven evar old Sacco-Va They appeared to have ed by the ropes stretched across the streets. ! police, out-numbered to the patrolmen. licemen their colleagues on foot and almost | S every horse at a standstill was sur- rounded by girls in their Nowhere was a menacing attitude ropes the groups, none more than a score per- sons, remained curious but nothing more. The streets around the prison proper were deserted. case. than The people | living in the houses, close together | on all the strewis leading to the pri- | son, had-been told to remain indoors |and they followed instructions. Some leaned out of upstairs win- dows to gaze at the DO\IK‘-‘ grouped outside the gates of the walled building, where the vari-colored uni- forms of the several branches of th service stood out in bold relief un- | der the glare of searchlights on the a house two doors from n a player piano, sadly out of tune, played “Kathleen Mavour- neen.'" Police preparations were so thor- ough that it seemed impossible for a threat to penetrate the lines. Ordi- nary side-arms were supplemented by riot guns, wu; looking weapons with sawed off barrels, and were other guns with ba fixed, promising to b slose quarters. Machine | were in evidence. The uniform and equipment left little doubt that the prison, a in itsel?, could be e | held aga itly superior forces e/ and the far-away Hnes made it out of question for an to be concentrated. The prison could not be subis to a flank movement by Miller river, as stream hind tt son, w patrolled a or _ | craft shooed the vicinit ctive at too, cted water for hardly spicious away the who talk petition, d o oas attack out of the question. co and V. alone, P tic: v sonnel of Boston's waited with ther did not wait the per- olice department, nzetti n ot naval ai 1 States ength at present 1 has 2 of the Uni planes. Japan is 230 ere | CONDEMNEDLAST | | betore | their | attacking | | who had been air- | 91 and | ru T0 HEAR REPRIEVE {Told of Respite 15 Minutes Be- = fore Death Hour Boston, logically, Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Celestino Madeiros were the last persons to learn their electrocution this morning had been deferred by executive until midnight on August : Aug. respite Thy were told e the to have That was at But at 10: ceived the new Warden William told. until 11:45. The diverse announcements from the warden's office of the C tonw state prison and the res on among nearly two papermen and assigned to cover , created one of es in Mas chusetts death house history. At 10:22 Warden Hendry out of a private telephone hooth to innounce, “Well, boys, ther: spite for two anyway.” He started for the death house, apparently to tell the prisoners the £00d news, was recalled to the tele- phone for a moment and sang out, “It's three.” Is Visibly Shaken Recalled for a second time, hed vis aken through the lobby and into the rotunda actly rst of gone 11 was Hendry The fact of the score burst { prison 11.—P—Chrono- | b that | was not officially announced | | story up." In the meantime ,nf dlr‘u l~l‘:rxph een s re |2h' d as the ssive ;“Am out only to N‘ countermanded |from the prison after few seconds later. When the warden am L. Reed rv to tha gove de public the A few minutes and telephone | respite. up. Confusion |of the ki next appeared it was with the flat announcement | that Wi execut srnor's council, 1 reprieve and | t the papers were on their way. later Captain | Charles T. Beaupre of the state po- lice dashed men about th. Hendry the formal erowd and broke up vitne who telegraphers | through the cordon of e institution and docu- s was has this country has bee acco) clin: | for who | de- | town reporters were Judgv Anderson of the circuit court ru\mh. from the lobby the prison i h Only two relatives visited the con- clubhouse where more than a score |demned men on the last day of their Mr: had to be condemned man. Mrs. Ro: Mary Madeiros, mother ler, and her daughter, Mrs. bulletins |Celuso Arrude, assisted seeing the Sacco was prostrated by grief and the long tension, and = first time in many days was v her husband a visit. in the seclusion of her EARTHQUAKE FELT hington, Aug. earth and one 11 (P — An sturbance lasting about three half hours was reported last night by Director Tondort of George« versity. disturbance He estimated the which reached a max- tensity at 7:50 p. m., at ape from Wash- No Cutting or Saltes Nceded —bad ¢ seldom Piles Go Quick banish “ulation will gladly any police. Three of those held on the [an anchorage oft the Statue of Lib- find no authority unless he were | .. /¢ were convicted in | €rty to be turned over to customs —continuing tomorrow, Friday, with values greater convinced that the trial court had no jurisdiction. He was not so con- | vinced, he said. and even i preju- dice on the part of the presiding judge was as strong as alleged, it | would not deprive the court of juris- diction. “In my opinion nothing Mort of a want of legal power to ecide the case authorizes me to in- .rfere fn this summary way with e proceedings of the state court,” | wrote Judge Anderson Concurs Judge Anderson concurring in a itement issued jointly with that of | istice Holmes shortly betore mid- | ght, declared he was unable to ke a different view. Mr. Hill and others for the de- nse visited Justice Holmes at his sverly home and urged upon him, | | they have before the Massachu- | tts courts, facts contained in affi- | savits by newspaper men and wo- | men that at the trial Judge Webster Thayer had been strongly prejudiced and for that reason the condemned men ought to be given a new trial. News of the reprieves, which had | been recommended by Governor Ful- ler after a long conference with ’\ll\ living former attorney generals of | the state save one, who was unavail- | able, and which had been consented | to unanimously by his council, of- | ficlally reached Warden William s office at 11:45. were rushed to the prison by Captain Charles T. Beau- pre of the state police but, unoffi- cially, the Intelligence had preceded the papers and already the army of police guarding the grim peni- tentiary had started to disperse An inkling of what was to come had gone out to the world nearly an hour and a aquarter before through an apparently inadvertent ent from the warden, mably, had been confi- dentially advised of the impending action of the council Approval by the council of any recommendation of clemency i required by law. An hour later the advance formation became confirmed and the prisoners were notified, Only Vanzettl showed any emotion and ha expressed pleasure st the news. Sacco remained apathetic while Mad Ar_s seemed not to care. Quiet Day Today. Having snatched their clients from the very shadow ef death, the defensa counascl 1weed compara- tively quiet day in which the deci- sion of Justice Sanderson was ap- parently the only major point of in- terest. The lull was in sharp contrast to the feverish pace of yestorday wien Mr. Hill and his associates, disap- pointed by a previous decision af Judge Thayer refusing their plea for revocation of sentence prelimin- | ary to argument for new trial, and by the denial of Justice Sanderson ! of a writ of error, caught their first gleam of hope when Gov. Fuller an- rounced he was giving their cleventh hour petition for a second respite serious consideration. Tt was made plain at the state house that the governor's convic- tion of the guilt of the adjudged slayers had not been changed but that he would be reluctant to allow hig in- OrientalRugs Complete line of Persian and (hinese Makes, all sizes. Also Repairing and Cleaning. Excel- lent service and perfect satis- faction guaranteed. We Call for and Deliver. S. V. Sevadjian 162 Glen Streey Tel. 1190 | court of sauntering and loitering | and blocking the strects. 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