The Milford shoe-worker Henry Iacovelli was the last defense witness.
In April 1920 he received a letter from Michael Kelley telling him
there was a job open in the Three-K factory. He had gone to Stoughton
on April 15, first seen George Kelley, then gone to Sacco’s bungalow.
Rosina told him that Sacco had gone to Boston, but this hearsay
evidence Jerry McAnarney could not bring out in court. On this fading
note the defense rested.
Among the residual rebuttal witnesses were Angelo Ricci, the foreman
of the railroad gang near the crossing; a Mary Gaines, who knew Lola
Andrews and Julia Campbell; Henry Hellyer, the Pinkerton agent; Chief
Stewart; Lieutenant Guerin; and a belated identification witness by
the name of Frank Hawley.
Ricci maintained that when the getaway car went over the tracks he
did not see any of his gang at the crossing, but he admitted under
cross-examination: “When you got to control twenty-four men, what to
hell, one fly away. I could not tie them up with string and hold them
all as one. If they went around, sneaked around the pile of dirt or
something like that, I could not hold them.”
Mary Gaines of Quincy was brought in to show that “the statement
Mrs. Andrews made about making inquiry of the man under the car is
not of recent contrivance.” She had visited Julia Campbell and her
sister and Lola Andrews in the Alhambra Block the week following the
shooting. Lola had then told them “she seen this man underneath the
automobile, and she taps this man on the shoulder, she asks him to
please direct her to the Rice and Hutchins shoe shop, and he got up
and directed her to it.”
Hellyer gave his altered account of what Jenny Novelli had told
him. As the existence of his written report was not then known, his
statements passed unchallenged. Lieutenant Guerin told of going to
Sacco’s house and picking up the gray cap with a rip in the lining
from the kitchen table. Moore objected to the cap being admitted
as an exhibit on the grounds of unlawful search and seizure. He
also objected to the jury’s seeing the Buick and demanded that
all references to it be struck out. As usual his objections were
overruled.
Hawley, a salesman and a former Brockton special police officer, said
that on April 15 he was driving his Ford in Brockton. In starting
to turn around on School Street to go to Whitman, he had forced a
Buick touring car to come to a stop. It was a dirty car with flapping
side-curtains and as it stopped the driver stuck his head out and
asked the way to Whitman. The man Hawley had seen sitting next to the
unidentified driver was Vanzetti.
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