1919
June 2. Attorney General Palmer’s house bombed,
Washington, D.C.
November 7. First of the Palmer Red raids.
November 23. Buick belonging to F. J. Murphy stolen
in Needham.
December 22. License plates stolen from Hassam’s garage,
Needham.
December 24. Bridgewater holdup.
1920
January 2. Red raids in thirty-three cities.
January 6-7. License plates stolen from car, Needham.
February 25. Elia and Salsedo detained in New York
by Department of Justice.
April 15. Holdup and murders in South Braintree.
April 17. Discovery of abandoned Murphy Buick.
April 20. Stewart interviews Boda.
April 25. Vanzetti goes to New York.
May 5. Sacco and Vanzetti arrested.
May 6. Orciani arrested. Katzmann questions
Sacco and Vanzetti. Sacco’s preliminary
hearing on South Braintree charge.
May 11. Orciani released.
May 18. Vanzetti’s preliminary hearing on South
Braintree charge.
June 11. Vanzetti indicted for Bridgewater
holdup.
June 22-July 1. Vanzetti tried for Bridgewater holdup.
August 16. Vanzetti sentenced.
August 19. Fred Moore takes up defense of Sacco
and Vanzetti.
September 16. Wall Street bomb explosion.
1921
January. Negotiations between Angelina DeFalco
and Defense Committee.
May 31-July 14. Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti.
October. Mass demonstrations in Europe against
verdict.
October 29, November 5. Motion for new trial argued.
November 8. First supplementary (Ripley) motion
filed.
December 24. Thayer denies motion for new trial.
1922
May 4. Second supplementary (Gould-Pelser)
motion filed.
July 22. Third supplementary (Goodridge) motion
filed.
September 11. Fourth supplementary (Andrews) motion
filed.
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