The other evidence from which the “consciousness of guilt” was drawn Sacco and Vanzetti admitted. They acknowledged that they behaved in the way described by Mrs. Johnson, and freely stated that when questioned at the police station they told lies. What is the explanation of this conduct? Plainly, their arrest meant to Sacco and Vanzetti arrest for radicalism, for when apprehended they were not confronted with the charge of murder. They were told they were arrested as “suspicious characters.” But why did that scare them into telling lies? The early winter of 1919-20 saw the beginning of the infamous campaign by the Department of Justice, under Attorney General Mitchell Palmer, for the wholesale arrest and deportation of Reds. The details of these raids, their brutality and their lawlessness, are set forth authoritatively in decisions of the United States courts, condemning the misconduct of the Department of Justice. Boston was one of the worst centers of lawlessness. One of the leading citizens of Boston, Mr. John F. Moors, himself a banker, has called attention to the fact that “the hysteria against the Reds was so great at the time when these men were convicted that even the most substantial bankers in this city were carried away to the extent of paying for full page advertisements about the Red peril.” Now, Sacco and Vanzetti were notorious Reds. They were associates of leading radicals. They had for some time been on the list of suspects of the Department of Justice, and were especially obnoxious because they had evaded the draft. Not only were they living in an overwhelming atmosphere of apprehension, but also the terrorizing methods of the Government had a very real meaning to them. For, as mentioned above, two of their friends had been deported, and one, Salsedo had, they had learned the day before, after having been detained incommunicado by the Department of Justice for a long period of time, been thrown or jumped from a window of a building on Park Row, New York. Sacco and Vanzetti had been urged by their friends to dispose of their radical literature and thus eliminate the most damaging evidence in the deportation proceedings they feared. It was to carry out this advice that Vanzetti and his friends were trying to get Boda’s car from Johnson’s garage on May 5th. And we cannot avoid concluding that Sacco and Vanzetti’s actions after their arrest were dictated, not by fear of arrest for murder, but by fear of deportation, or worse, for radicalism. We have seen the Commonwealth abandon its first line of attack. It now abandons its second, and finally we shall see how, depending entirely upon its third line, it succeeds, through the cooperation of Judge, District Attorney, and firearms expert, in bamboozling the jury, already eager to convict these Reds, into believing that the “mortal bullet” actually passed through Sacco’s pistol. [Sidenote: III.