JUDGE’S HOUSE BOMBED

Evening Star, Issue 21220, 29 September 1932, Page 9

JUDGE’S HOUSE BOMBED

ACT OF REVENGE SUGGESTED SENSATIONAL CASE RECALLED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright WORCESTER (Massachusetts), September 27. (Received September 29, at 1 a.m.)

The home of Mr Justice Webster Thayer, who was the judge in the celebrated Sacco-Vanzetti case, was mysteriously bombed to-day. Mr Justice Thayer escaped injury, although his wife and a servant were treated in hospital for lacerations and shock. The structure was badly damaged. On the assumption that the bombing was the work of Radicals in retaliation for, the sentences imposed on the two men, Governor Ely has ordered an exhaustive investigation. [Nicco Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, described as “ internationallyknown Radicals,” were sentenced to death and executed in 1927 for the murder during a robbery, of a factory paymaster in 1920. The passing of sentence was delayed for six years by legal battles, during which time the case attracted unprecedented attention in many parts of the world. The prisoners received contributions to their defence fund from friends and sympathisers in all parts of the world, while Anarchists in many places bombed legations and consular quarters as protests against the convictions. Police guards wore placed around the American embassies in Argentina, Paris, and elsewhere in anticipation of violence following the sentence. Judge Thayer, who tried the case and sentenced the accused, was a marked man, and under police protection for five years. Governor Fuller, of Massachusetts, said he believed that the trial was fair, and that the men were guilty, but there were many people who thought the decision wrong. It came as a complete surprise and was broadcast over the entire world immediately on account of the enormous interest taken in the case.]