The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti : $b A summary of the outstanding testimonyBernheimer, Louis
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The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti : $b A summary of the outstanding testimony
Bernheimer, Louis
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921
(b) Harry Kurlansky, a business man of Quincy, who had known Lola
Andrews seven or eight years, talked with her in February. “She says,
‘They are bothering the life out of me.’ I says, ‘What?’ She says, ‘I
just come from jail.’ I says, ‘What have you done in jail?’ She says,
‘The government took me down and want me to recognize those men,’ she
says, ‘and I don’t know a thing about them. Unfortunately, I have
been down there to get a job, and I have seen many men that I don’t
know, and I have never paid any attention to any one.’”
(c) In February, 1921, Andrews complained to the police of an assault
on herself in her apartment in Quincy. To George W. Fay, a policeman
who investigated and who asked her if the man who assaulted her was
one of the men she saw at Braintree the day of the shooting. She
said she could not tell because _she didn’t see the faces_[1] of the
Braintree men.
(d) Alfred Lebrecque, a Quincy newspaper man, secretary of the
Quincy Chamber of Commerce, testified to a conversation with Andrews
substantially to the same effect as Fay’s.
5. Carlos E. Goodridge, (who, after the trial, was discovered to have
been a fugitive from justice in another state, and to have given
evidence under a false name), swore that at the time of the shooting
he was in a pool room in South Braintree; heard shots; stepped to
the door; saw the automobile coming toward him, and when he got to
the sidewalk a man in the automobile “poked a gun” over towards
him—whereupon he “went back into the pool room.”
About _seven months later_[1] he identified Sacco as that man _for
the first time_,[1] and identified him again at the trial.
Four witnesses squarely contradicted Goodridge’s belated
identification. (a) Andrew Manganaro, the employer of Goodridge,
told Goodridge, after the arrest of Sacco and Vanzetti, that he
(Goodridge) should go and see if he could recognize them and find out
if they were the murderers.
Q. “What did they say?” A. “He said he could not do it because when
he saw the gun he was so scared he run right in from where he was.
He could not possibly remember the faces.” Manganaro also testified,
without contradiction, that Goodridge’s reputation for veracity was
bad.
(b) Magazu, who ran the pool room, testified: “I says, ‘Did you see
the men?’ He says, ‘I seen the men, they pointed with the gun.’ I
says, ‘How did the man look?’ He says, ‘Young man, with _light hair,
light complexioned_,[1] and wore an army shirt.’” Q. “Which man?” A.
“One of the men pointing with the gun. I don’t know which.” Q. “Did
he say anything further about it to you?” A. “He says, ‘This job was
not pulled by any foreign people.’”
(c) Arrogni, a barber in South Braintree, testified that Goodrich
told him, “But if I have got to say who the man was I can’t say.”
(d) Damato, Arrogni’s boss, swore to the same effect.
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