THE SACCO-VANZETTI CASE

Hardback. Although a different format, this book is part of the 'American Trials' series edited by Samuel Klaus and others. Not since the time of the Dreyfus affair had international feeling risen to so high a peak as it did in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti. Throughout Europe and America radical and conservative opinion locked horns over this conviction and the proceedings which followed it. The crime for which the two radicals went, after 7yrs, to the electric chair was the seizure in the streets of South Braintree, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1920, a pay roll amounting to $15,776.51 and the brutal murder of the men who had been in charge of it. After fruitless attempts made in the courts of Massachusetts to save the accused men, an appeal for clemency was submitted to Governor Fuller. On April 9, 1927, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts turned down an appeal for a new hearing and the two men were electrocuted on August 23, 1927. The case is significant for the long-delayed execution of sentence and the doubt of their guilt. In 1977 Sacco and Vanzetti had their names cleared in a special proclamation signed by the Governor of Massachusetts. Illus., Maps, Chronology, Appendix + Index. 550pp. + Index. lge. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Vg+. A heavy book which will require additional postage.