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...Prisoners Sacco and Vanzetti refused last rites from the prison priest. They would die as they had lived, they said. Faith in a communistic order of mankind was enough for them...
Relatives: Machine guns, search lights and fire-hoses were added to the defenses at Charlestown Prison, which none might "approach closer than 1,000 feet. Relatives of the prisoners, however, were admitted to the death house. To reach the death cells they had to pass the electric chair. Prisoner Vanzetti was allowed to leave his cell and embrace his sister, Luigia whom he had not seen for 19 years. Prisoner Sacco saw his wife and 14-year-old son, Dante, to whom he later wrote a farewell letter telling him to comfort his mother, fight the rich, help the weak...
...minutes before midnight. Straps of the electric chair in the Massachusetts state prison had been oiled, adjusted, inspected by the executioner. Machine guns had been placed along the prison walls to prevent violence. Radio station WSOM in Manhattan was hooked up ready for the broadcasting of the execution by the Eugene V. Debs Memorial Radio Fund. In adjoining death cells Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Celestino Madeiros? were waiting for a man to slit their trouser legs, make them ready for metal strips through which would pass a current of electricity...
...bric a-brac-through the householder's high-priced canvases by Rubens and Van Dyck? For such deeds, causing $50,000 damage in the Fifth Avenue apartment of C. Bai Lihme, retired zinc man (TIME, July 11), a Manhattan judge last week sentenced one John Healy to a prison term of one and one-half to three years. But, said the judge, the New York Legislature could not have foreseen, when it framed the state law on vandalism, such a spectacular achievement as Vandal Healy's with bone and bottles. The vandalism law, said the judge, should...
...their cells in the death house of the Massachusetts State Prison, Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti heard last week that they were to die. Mrs. Sacco and two advisers brought the news. For an hour and a half, they talked together, while prison guards listened and looked. Mr. Sacco (then on the 19th day of a hunger strike) mumbled over and over: "I told you so, I told you so," as if in rhythm with his throbbing, withered arteries. Said Mr. Vanzetti: "I don't believe...