Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 14, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1927 — Page 10

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SACCO, VANZEni DEFENSE STARTED BY PM FRIEND Fellicani, Without Funds, Has Built Up Remarkable Movement. B Times Bvee.lal BOSTON, Mass., May 27. —When he isn’t busy on his job as linotype operator for the Boston Italian language newspaper, Lanotezia, a tall, gaunt immigrant of distinctly scholarly caste of countenance, with deep-set and very sad eyes, moves restlessly around the Sacco-Vanzetta Defense Committee headquarters. He is Aldino Fellicani, friend to-the-finish of the condemned radicals, who from his humble station, and with nothing at the start but a pencil and paper, organized one of the most remarkable defense movements in the history of this country. The Sacco-Vanzettl Defense Committee is now the subject of friendly discussion in the most “respectable" quarters of this city, long famous for its conscious respectability. In Harvard Square, in Back Bay, Sacco and Vanzetti are the subject of much concern. Well Financed The defense committee might almost, be called prosperous. With over $300,000 collected, it hasn’t issued an appeal for funds for a year, and yet enough money to keep going comes in by voluntary subscription. But this is a distinctly new phase of the case. Back in 1920 and 1921 there was an altogether different situation. Nicola Sacco and Bartolmeo Vanzetti were being tried as pay roll bandits and murderers. They were Italians. They were confessed and defiant political radicals, who had fled the country to avoid serving with the U. S. forces during the war. To virtually all of the people in Massachusetts, where United States Justice Department “Red raids" aroused tremendous excitement, Sacco and Vanzelti represented a couple of bad eggs who were trying towreck the country. Their guilt or innocence as robbers and murderers was only an Incidental public concern at the time. This was the situation which Fellicani faced. He had no money. He had few friends outside of a small” group of Italians. But he had faith in his convictions.

Forms Committee When Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested May 5, 1920, and accused of highway robbery and murder, Fellicani rushed to his Italian friends and proclaimed that it was a case of persecution. He succeeded in forming a' defense committee composed entirely of Italians, and then he started to write. He wrote letters to Italian papers all over the world, he wrote to English language papers, he wrote to any and all papers which he thought would print a simple account of what he charged was the shameful treatment of his frieuds and countrymen for their political beliefs. Vanzetti fiipst went to trial at Plymouth, charged with an attempted robbery in Bridgewater, Mass., on Christmas Eve, 1919. Many witnesses'" Italians, testified that Vanzetti, a fish peddler, was selling eels in Plymouth, 28 miles from the scene of the crime, at the time It took place. They were not believed. Vanzetti was found guilty. Judge Webster Thayer, who is now under fierce attack for his conduct of this trial and the later one at Dedham, sentenced Vanzetti to serve from 12 to 15 years in prison, the maximum sentence for the offense involved. Fellicani Continues Fellicani attended every day of the trial. When it was over he was more convinced than ever that Vanzetti was the victim of race hatred and political persecution. He continued to wear away the nights writing letters. The letters went to all corners of the world. When Sacco and Venzetti went on trial for murder and highway robbery in 1921 Fellicani and his little group of associates had built up a world-wide interest in the case. But it was a class interest. It was an interest confined largely to Italians and the working people of the world. Any Italian government interest in the case has since largely disappeared. Sacco and Vanzetti are Italians, but they are enemies of such a regime as Dictator Mussolini’s. Fellicani and Mussolini were once comrades and fellow radicals. But Mussolini has changed his mind.

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To him the fate of the Italian radicals is said to be of small concern. Interest Aroused^ During the Dedham trial, which resulted in the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti for murder, a large number of recruits from all classes joined the Sacco-Vanzetti defense endeavor. One, Mrs. Elizabeth Glendower Evans, a distinguished liberal of'lndependent financial means, followed the case every day. Convinced that there was no justice in the trial, she has since worked unceasingly to obtain reconsideration of the case. It is she who is credited with Interesting a large number of Boston intellectuals of the old guard, including Harvard faculty members, in the case. Since Judge Thayer sentenced Sacco and Vanzetti to die in July the case has become of vital interest to all groups here. Fellicani has quit writing letters because reporters now come to the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense headquarters in pursuit of information. Cables are now substituted for postage stamps. Fellicani Modest About this, Fellicani has no comment to make. He does his best to avoid the limelight which his efforts more than those of any other individual, have directed to the SaccoVanzetti case. The death sentence which hangs over hi3 friends is to him so terrible that he finds no personal satisfaction in having organized one of the most remarkable derense efforts on record. His faith in the ultimate attainment of justice in America is so completely wrapped up in the final outcome of the Sacco-Venzetti case that he takes no comfort from the fact that it is still possible for a poor man, with no equipment but a pen, to start a world-wide movement in defense of two poor immigrants. That movement, often marred by excesses and misguided by bad advice, remains a remarkable tribute to Aldino Fellicani.

OTHER CITIES SEER LAW CHAMPIONS Letter to McCain Telle of Some Tyrant's Sway. That Indianapolis Is not the onlycity long-suffering from maladministration is shown by the following unsigned communication from a town in southern Indiana received today by Secretary Reid McCain, of the public service commission: “Dear Sir: I will drop you a few lines as I am a taxpayer of this town and we have some trouble and we want a man in here at once to take this thing in hands. The whole town is in a mixup and they all want to see these boys go back to work. These councleman have sold stuff to the city and they have canned a good hunch of men here that is good men that understands their business. They haven't enny charges against them at all and we want to see this thing taken out of their hands and get these men back to work. I am a business man here and I want to be pertected so get in here at once not next week, but now. If we have trouble here we haven't got enny lineman to go out and replace the same and we want action at once we have had good service all the times this superintendent had been here and his gang of men they are straight upright men in every way. Well will close so make it your business to get here at once.’’ ✓ Underwood Tagless and Now Faces Fine Bit Uvitrff Press WASHINGTON, May 27.—Former Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama, is in the meshes of the law as represented .by Justice of Peace Frank W. Troth sitting in a hot dog stand in Virginia. The one-time candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination forgot, it appears, to buy a Virginia motor license when he established summer residence in that State, although he already paid for Alabama and District of Columbia plates. Justice Troth wants to fine Underwood. ‘YOU’LL FIND HIM HOME’ Negress Murders Husbamd, Then Runs to Tell Police. “I just murdered my husband, you'll, find him at home, 305 Cora St.,” a Negress told police as she ran ini police headquarters late Thursday. She gave ’ her name as Mrs. Minnie Ttfrrian, .29. An emergency squad found Harrison Torrian. 37. Nefcro dead, with a breast stab wound.\ k

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