HOUSE BOMBED.
ATTACK ON JUDGE’S HOME. WORCESTER (Massachusetts), Sept. 27. The home of Mr Webster Thayer, who was the judge in the celebrated Sacco-Vanzetti case, was mysteriously bombed to-day. Mr Thayer escaped injury, but his wife and servant were treated in hospital for lacerations and shock. His house, was badly damaged. It is assumed that the bombing was the work of Radicals in retaliation for the Judge’s verdict in the case. The Governor, Mr Ely, has ordered an exhaustive investigation.
Sacco and Vanzetti, Italians by birth, were executed in 1927 for the murder, in April, 1920, of the paymaster and guard of a shoo factory; the murder was accompanied by a robbery of 15,000 dollars in tho possession of the murdered man. The condemnation of the men aroused a storm of protest throughout tho world, as it was held that the political leanings of Sacco and Vanzetti—they woro avowed Socialists—influenced tho courso of justice.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 257, 29 September 1932, Page 7
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