The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti by Nicola Sacco

Author:Nicola Sacco
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2007-03-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER III

In the year 1926, a series of important legal steps took place. Mr. Thompson was now in charge of the defense and on January 11, an appeal from Judge Thayer was argued before the Massachusetts Supreme Court. The decision went against the men. Then followed another effort to secure a new trial from Judge Thayer, based upon disclosures made by Celestino Madeiros, then confined in Dedham Jail for another murder. According to Madeiros, he and a notorious band of professional criminals were the perpetrators of the South Braintree crime. Again Judge Thayer decided against Sacco and Vanzetti.

This increased activity had its effect upon Vanzetti. In previous years he had occupied himself by translating into English Proudhon’s War and Peace, writing his autobiography, The Story of a Proletarian Life, completing a novel called Events and Victims, which was a first-hand account of his experiences in a munitions factory before America entered the war, and contributing articles to anarchist newspapers and to the Defense Committee’s bulletin, often on matters not directly related to the case.

Now, he bent his energies to the task of aiding counsel and the Defense Committee. He began to translate Mr. Thompson’s brief into Italian, for distribution in Europe. Most of his letters at this time indicate a steadier preoccupation with the case. He conferred more frequently with members of the Defense Committee on steps to be taken.

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