DEFERRED EXECUTIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19713, 12 August 1927, Page 11

DEFERRED EXECUTIONS.

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. SEVENTEEN MORE DAYS. COUNSEL'S IMPASSIONED PLEA. NEW TRIAL TO BE SOUGHT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received August 11, 6.5S p.m.) A. and N.Z.-Sun. NEW YORK, Aug. 10. An eleventh-hour respite was this evening granted to the two Italians, Nicola Saceo and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were condemned to death in connection with the murder of a pay-clerk and his guard at South Braintree, Massachusetts, in April, 1920. The date of the execution was set forward to the week August 22-27, inclusive.. It was announced that the respite had been granted hv the Governor of Massachusetts, Mr Alvan Fuller, and the Executive Council. A statement issued by the Governor eaid: "The temporary reprieve has been granted in order to afford the Courts an opportunity to complete consideration of the proceedings now pending and to announce their decision upon them." A few minutes before the time fixed for the execution Mr. Fuller came out from the meeting of the Executive Council, where counsel for the condemned men had just completed an impassioned appeal. The Governor then announced the respite of Sacco and Vanzetti, and also of a third condemned man named Madieros. Shortly afterwards Judge Holmes announced that he had refused a writ of habeas corpus, thus closing the avenue of appeal to the United States Supreme Court on the plea that the two men had not received the justice guaranteed under the Federal constitution. The respite will give the condemned men at most an additional 17 days to live, as under the Massachusetts law the execution can take place on any day "during the week beginning August 22. It appears at present that the only possible legal recourse still open to the condemned men is to secure from Judge Sanderson, of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, the right to have an appeal for a new trial heard before a full panel of that Court. If this should be granted the men may secure a further respite, as it is believed the full panel could not be convened before September. LABOUR AGITATOBS. REBUKE BY MINISTER. DRASTIC STEPS THREATENED. (Received August 11, 5.5 p.m.) A. Hnrf N.Z. NEW YORK. Aug. 10. From all parts of the country reports cam" to hand to-day of various meetings of pro! est and condemnation of the sentence on Sacco and Vanzetti, - minor riot® and mass meetings arising out of the situation. Mr. William Green, of the American Federation of Labour, appealed to Mr. Fuller for the reprieve of the men. The Secretary of Labour, Mr. J. J. Davis, countered this by intimating to agitators that law-abiding citiaens were fully resolved to make every effort to secure the deportation of undesirable Radical? who entered the country through violating the immigration laws. Mr. Davis said that before leading manufacturers employed aliens they would demand proof of their lawful entry into thi> country. Efforts would be made in Congress to secure legislation to further fishier! the immigration laws and secure the exclusion of undesirables.