Sacco and Vanzetti Murder Trial
Throughout the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti until decades after their deaths, there was two different of thought and stand: The first group believed that the trial was fair and that the two murders got what they deserved while the other group held the view that these two Italians anarchists were the innocent victims of political and economic interests with the intention of passing a message about the rising tide of anarchist, (Katherine Ramsland, 2014). Little attention was given to the idea that maybe there was guilty one and innocent one, not until the strong evidence from ballistics test in 1961 was provided indicating that indeed Sacco fired a fatal bullet on that April day in South Braintree, Massachusetts.
There were all the reasons to believe that the prosecution team got it right about the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial. The finding of the investigation assisted the prosecution team in conducting the trial of the two men. Some two days after the crime took place, the police happened to find a dark blue Buick with stripped off license plates in woods miles away to the south of Braintree, in West Bridgewater. Apart from the Buick, there were the smaller tracks of the second car suspected to have been stolen. Therefore, the conclusion of the police was that the Buick was probably the car which indeed was involved in the Braintree murders.
The very day of the Braintree crime, April 15, happened to be the same date that was scheduled for the deportation of an Italian anarchist named Feruccio Coacci who lived Bridgewater. While preparing for his deportation, Coacci had quit the job he was doing at Slater & Morrill. Coacci did not appear on the 15th for his deportation. The next day he called the Immigration Service reporting that his wife was sick, and he was requesting to be given a few extra days to take care of her. However, when an investigation was done by immigration and a police officer, they found that his wife was never ill, and there...
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