ITALIANS TO DIE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 128, 20 August 1927, Page 1

ITALIANS TO DIE

Massachusetts Court Denies Application For New Trial FEDERAL COURT THE LAST APPEAL THE Full Bench of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts has dismissed the appeal for a new trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, who, failing intervention by the United States Supreme Court, must die on Monday. Vanzetti’s sister has arrived iu New York from Europe. Fresh demonstrations are feared, public buildings are again guarded, and already there is talk of widespread strikes. By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright.

Heed. 9.5 a.m. BOSTON, Friday. The Full Bench of the Massachusetts Supreme Court denied the SaccoVanzetti appeal, leaving the Supreme Court of the United States the only remaining resort for the condemned men. The court over-ruled the exceptions taken from Judge Sanderson’s denial of a writ of error, also the exceptions from Judge Thayer’s denial of motions for a new trial, revocation of sentence, and stay of execution. It also dismissed the petition for a writ of error, which was presented to the Full Bench after Judge Sanderson had denied a similar writ. This means that the courts of Massachusetts have said their last word regarding the condemned men, who must be executed on August 22 unless the Federal Court prevents it. Counsel for the condemned Italians has now applied for a stay of execution to permit them to apply to the latter court. As a result of the State Court’s adverse ruling, Sacco and Vanzetti are expected immediately to be returned to the death cells, whence they were removed at the eleventh hour, following Governor Fuller’s stay of execution. Meantime, with the arrival of Vanzettl’s sister at New York today aboard the liner Aquitania, the police fear a renewal of the tension and the outbreaks which were experienced in many parts of the United States before Governor Puller’s temporary reprieve. New York will be heavily guarded how until the prisoners are executed. The police are already patrolling the subway and elevated stations and public buildings again in New York, Boston, Washington, and elsewhere, while a series of mass meetings of Protest and numerous strikes are expected in many quarters. The Sacco-Vanzetti defence committee has issued a call for a “world general strike’’ on Monday.—A. and N.Z. “JUSTICE HAS MISCARRIED” BRITISH AUTHORS’ APPEAL LONDON, Thursday. The fate of the two Italians, Sacco Vanzetti, condemned to death at Boston In connection with the murder of a payclerk and his guard seven years ago, continues to attract atten «on in England.

The well-known British author, Mr. John Galsworthy, has issued a statement in which he says:—“After a critical study of Professor Frankfurter’s summary of the evidence in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. I cannot resist my conviction that justice has miscarried. I hope the State of Massachusetts will avoid the risk of making that miscarriage irrevocable.”

Two other famous British writers, Messrs. H. G. Wells and Arnold Bennett, jointly state that they are impressed by the weight of evidence against the conviction of the two men. They implore the Governor, Mr. Alvan Fuller, and the people of Massachusetts not to stain the history of their State with the blood of two innocent individuals. —A. and N.Z.-Sun.