DEATH SENTENCE.
AFTER SIX YEARS’ LEGAL BATTLES.
FIGHT AGAINST LAWLESSNESS
By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.
Received April 10, 5.5 p.m. NEW YORK, April !)tb
At Dedham (Massachusetts) Nikola Sacko and Bartolomeo, Vauzetti were sentenced to death by electrocution, for the murder of a paymaster and the payroll guard, during a robbery committed in 1920. ‘Sentence has been delayed for six years by legal battles, during which time tho case attracted unprecedented attention in many parts of the world.
The prisoners, who are both Radicals, received contributions to t 1 ,e defence fund from friends and sympathisers in all parts of the world, while anarchists in many - places, bombed legislature and consular quarters, as protests against the convictions.
Police guards have now been 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 accused, has been a marked man, and lias been under police protection for the past five years.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 11 April 1927, Page 9
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