Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ TRAGEDY IN DEDHAM _In his Ingersoll Lecture at Harvard, Lowes Dickinson inquired, “Is immortality desirable?” I almost think it is, if only to get at the truth of the Sacco-Vanzetti case._ —FERRIS GREENSLET TRAGEDY IN DEDHAM THE STORY OF THE SACCO-VANZETTI CASE _Francis Russell_ NEW YORK / TORONTO / LONDON McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC. TRAGEDY IN DEDHAM COPYRIGHT © 1962 BY FRANCIS RUSSELL. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS BOOK OR PARTS THEREOF MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED IN ANY FORM WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE PUBLISHER. _Library of Congress Catalog Card Number_: 62-13822 54340 CONTENTS CHRONOLOGY vii MAPS xii ONE THE TRAGEDY IN DEDHAM 1 TWO HISTORY, WRITTEN AND OTHERWISE 10 THREE APRIL 15, 1920 28 FOUR BRIDGEWATER AND WEST BRIDGEWATER 49 FIVE THE NIGHT OF MAY 5 60 SIX THE MEN AND THE TIMES 71 SEVEN THE PLYMOUTH TRIAL 93 EIGHT THE YEAR BETWEEN 107 NINE THE TRIAL—I 129 TEN THE TRIAL—II 158 ELEVEN THE TRIAL—III 176 TWELVE POST-TRIAL—I 216 THIRTEEN POST-TRIAL—II 237 FOURTEEN THE CONFESSIONS 270 FIFTEEN MORE HISTORY, WRITTEN AND OTHERWISE 302 SIXTEEN 1926 326 SEVENTEEN 1927 349 EIGHTEEN THE PUBLIC AND THE LOWELL COMMITTEE 380 NINETEEN AUGUST 1927 404 TWENTY AFTERMATH 451 SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 467 INDEX 471 CHRONOLOGY