Nicola Sacco autographed letter signed to Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, [Dedham], February 1927

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Title:
Nicola Sacco autographed letter signed to Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, [Dedham], February 1927
Description:
Speaks of disappointment after Supreme Court decision, bitterness, disillusionment. Mentions article by Vanzetti published in L'Adunata. It is not clear whether he is quoting from this or giving his own account; speaks of the trial, what evidence was admitted and what was not. A spy, Cartone (?) was put near his cell and would not leave him alone. Talks about the three shells found in Vanzetti's pocket at the time of his arrest and of how Thayer, Katzman and the police chief of Brockton spoke about them in a café in Brockton. He believes that Katzman made inconsistent statements about these shells. In reality he had taken them from his own home and they had been left by Augusto Rossi when we went hunting more than a year before. At the Plymouth trial, two witnesses at first recognized Sacco as a bandit, then under cross-examination by Graham could not say for sure. He writes at length of their testimony, and that of the ballistics experts, Thayer’s speech to the jury. Says that they have been framed and have no hope for a new trial. Recognizes all that the comrades have done. The next three pages are an emotional discourse on his life in prison, others who are oppressed, his ideals, his wife and children. He finishes by saying that their only hope for freedom lies in “the shouts of protest of anarchists and of the workers of the world... today while we are still alive, because tomorrow may be too late. In postscript Sacco asks his comrades to publish his letter in "Protesta Umana" as soon as the sentence is pronounced.
Author:
Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927
Addressee:
Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee
Name on Item:
Nicola Sacco
Date:
February 1927
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
MS 2030 Box 1, Folder 13, Item 1 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Aldino Felicani Sacco-Vanzetti Collection, 1915-1977
Series:
Series 1: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti Correspondence and Writings, 1916-1928 > Sub-Series 1: Nicola Sacco Correspondence, 1920 - 1927
Subjects:
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921
Anarchists
Immigrants' writings, American
Radicalism--United States--History--20th century
Adunata dei refrattari
Extent:
12 sheets (12 p.)
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Language:
Italian
Notes:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Notes (acquisition):
The Aldino Felicani Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee Records were donated to the Boston Public Library by Aneto and Arthur Felicani, March 1979.
Notes (date):
Date from item or from supporting materials.
Accession #:
MS 2030 Box 1 F13 (1)