ITALIAN “REDS.”

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 November 1926, Page 3

ITALIAN “REDS.”

■FAMOUS CASE REOPENED. NEW TRIAL GRANTED. NEW YORK, Oct. 22. The motion for a new trial, made in the Boston Superior Court on behalf of iNiccoia Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti reopens the case which not only claimed national interest for five years, but which has -had world-wide reprecussions and been the subject of official representations by the Italian Government:

The two Italians, convicted of killing a paymaster and bodyguard at South Braintree, Massachusetts, five yeans ago, and their subsequent efforts to gain fieedom, were taken up by the extremist Press of many countries, whose propaganda was directly responsible ■or agitations in Paris, Lisbon, and Buenos Aires. It has been alleged in and out of Court on behalf of the defendants that they were tried for their advanced beliers instead of for murder, and that they are victims to the public prejudice aroused at the time of the murders by the Government’s drive to round up foreign Anarchists and deport them. A defence fund of £60,000, raised by popular subscription, has been expended.

A new trial was granted because of the alleged confession of Celestine Aladeiros, a convicted murderer, who has admitted that he committed ..the murders- for which Sacco and Vanzetti were condemned to die in the electric chair. The prosecution contends, however, that Sacco and Aladeiros had many opportunities to meet in gaol, and that Sacco persuaded Aladeiros to “confess,” and thus gain a few more weeks’ life for himself and at the same time win freedom for Sacco.