AMERICAN MURDERERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 84, 30 June 1927, Page 9

AMERICAN MURDERERS

EXECUTION DEFERRED ANARCHIST REVENGE FEARED AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. BOSTON, Wednesday. Governor Fuller, of Massachusetts, has announced a 30-day respite in the execution of Nicola Sacca and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. There is an order to continue the investigation now being conducted into the men’s conviction.— A. and N.Z. At Dedham, Massachusetts, on April 8, two men named Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were sentenced to death in the electric chair in the week ending July 10 for the murder of a paymaster, who was guarding a pay-roll, in a robbery in the year 1920. Sentence has been delayed for six years by legal battles, and the case has attracted unprecedented attention in many parts of the world. The prisoners, who were both extremists, received contributions from all parts of the world to their defence fund from friends and sympathisers. Anarchists in many places bombed legations and consular quarters as a protest against the conviction.

Police guards have now been placed at the American Embassies in Argentina and at Paris and elsewhere, in anticipation of violence as a result of the sentence.

Judge Thayer, who tried the case and sentenced the accused, has been a marked man and under police protection for the last five years.