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Homework #8 Project
Sacco and Vanzetti
How would you feel if you were charged for something you didnt do and then put to death just because of your social status and political views?
Bartolomeo Vanzetti was born on June 11, 1888. He was just a fishmonger born in Villafalletto, Cueno, Italy.
Ferdinando Nicola Sacco
was born on April 23, 1891.
He was just a shoe-maker.
He was born in Torremaggiore,
Foggia, Italy.
Both men followed the Italian
anarchist Luigi Galleani. Luigi
advocated revolutionary violence
which included bombing and
assassination. At the time Italian
anarchists were ranked at the top
of the United States list of most
dangerous enemies.
Both men were convicted
of the murders of two men,
Frederick Parmenter a paymaster and Alessandro Berardelli a security guard at the Slater-Morrill Shoe Company factory on Pearl Street in Braintree, Massachusetts.
In the afternoon of April 15, 1920 robbers approached the two men when they were in the process of transporting the company's payroll into two large steel boxes to the main factory.
Beradeli was armed with a Harrington & Richardson revolver. The robbers grabbed the payroll boxes and got in a get a away car that was near by.
Parmenter who had no weapons on him was shot twice when he tried to flee, once in the chest and the second shot was a fatal shot to his back. On the other hand Beradeli was shot four times.
On May 5, 1920 Sacco and Vanzetti went to a garage with two other men located in Brockton, Massachusetts. They went to pick up a car that was believed by the police to have had been used in the robberies. The garage was staked up prior to this by the police and Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested for fleeing the street and jumping into a streetcar. Along with the murders Vanzetti was charged with stealing $15,776.73 from the company.
Both Sacco and Vanzentti were charged with both murders and were executed in the electric chair on August 23, 1927. Celestino Madeiros confessed to murders but was executed the same day for a different murder.
Words of Bartolomeo- " What I say is that I am innocent, not only of the Braintree crime, but also the Bridgewater crime. They jury were hating us because we were against the war, and they jury don't know that it makes any difference between a man that is against the war because he believes the war is unjust, because he hate no country, because he is a cosmopolitan, and a man that is against the war because he is in favor of the other country that fights against the country in which he is, and therefore a spy, an enemy, and he commits any crime in the country in which is in behalf of the other country in order to serve the other country."