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Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday June 1, 1921
Dedham, Massachusetts – Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti Begins
From the Boston Evening Globe of May 31, 1921:
SACCO-VANZETTI TRIAL HAS BEGUN
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Parmenter and Berardelli Killed
In Braintree Hold
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DEDHAM, May 31-At 2:25 this afternoon, after three talesmen had been examined, Wallace R. Hersey of Weymouth, a real estate dealer, was accepted as the first juryman to try Nicola Sacco and Bartholomeo [Bartolomeo] Vanzetti on a charge of murder of Frederick A. Parmenter, the paymaster of the later & Morrill Shoe Company, and Alessandro Beradelli, a guard, at South Braintree, on April 15, 1920. Parmenter was robbed of the factory payroll of $16,0OO.
Sacco was brought over from the Dedham Jail and Vanzetti was brought from the State Prison at Charlestown, in charge of Deputy Daniel A. Griffin. Warden Shattuck also accompanied the prisoner, who is serving a sentence of 12 to 15 years for attempted highway robbery at Bridgewater.
The State, was prepared to put on the stand employes of the factory who were witnesses of the robbery and shooting. The prosecution relies upon them and upon residents of towns through which the robbers fled in an automobile to establish the identity of the men or trial as those responsible for the murder.
Sacco is rather a young-looking man smooth-shaven. Vanzetti look older. He wears a mustache.
Various organizations throughout the country have contributed to a defense fund for Sacco and Vanzetti. The defense will offer an alibi for both men and will contend that they were arrested on this charge merely because of their known radical activities.
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Kissed Defendant on Both Cheeks
When Vanzetti was brought into the Dedham Court Sacco kissed him on both cheeks, after the Latin fashion. Then the men shook hands, sat down in the cage and began to chat in whispers. Both of them seemed unconcerned, almost merry. They smiled constantly and seemed entirely at ease. Meanwhile the courtroom filled rapidly.
The 9:09 a. m. train from Boston brought out fully 100 talesmen of the 175 on the list summoned for today. They made an impressive column as they matched up High st from the station to the Courthouse.
Another 175 talesmen are on the list for tomorrow, and 150 have been told to report on Thursday. This makes the largest list ever called in a trial here. It is out of the longest ever called in Massachusetts.
There was not a sign in the streets of Dedham of either a gathering of desperate radicals we were told might come or of the guards that were to be called out against them. Radicals would have had trouble to get near the courtroom. Even the public was excluded this morning. This was because every seat was needed by the talesmen.
Only one woman was in the courtroom, Mrs. Sacco, the good-looking young wife of one of the accused, sat directly behind the cage in the main aisle. The trial was set for 10 a. m. but it was after 11 when Judge Webster Thayer took his seat on the bench.
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote EGF, re Sacco at Dedham Jail, Oct 1920, Rebel Girl p304
(search: sacco i am innocent)
https://books.google.com/books?id=Jf4cAAAAIAAJ
Boston Evening Globe
(Boston, Massachusetts)
-May 31, 1921
https://www.newspapers.com/image/430217460/
See also:
Boston Evening Globe, May 31, 1921-Sacco-Vanzetti Trial Begins, w/ Photos
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78746611/boston-evening-globe-may-31/
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https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78746834/boston-evening-globe-may-31/
Tag: Sacco and Vanzetti Case
https://weneverforget.org/tag/sacco-and-vanzetti-case/
Felix Frankfurter, The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti: A Critical Analysis for Lawyers and Laymen. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1927.
https://www.worldcat.org/title/case-of-sacco-and-vanzetti-a-critical-analysis-for-lawyers-and-laymen/oclc/808310803
Eugene Lyons, The Life and Death of Sacco and Vanzetti. New York: International Publishers, 1927.
https://www.worldcat.org/title/life-and-death-of-sacco-and-vanzetti/oclc/506100
The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti. New York: Octagon Books, 1928.
https://www.worldcat.org/title/letters-of-sacco-and-vanzetti/oclc/150502
The Sacco-Vanzetti Case. New York: Russell & Russell, 1931.
https://www.worldcat.org/title/sacco-vanzetti-case/oclc/1131386151
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The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti – Joan Baez
-by Ennio Morricone