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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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