Sacco and Vanzetti unjustly convicted.

• Author: Evans, Elizabeth Glendower
• Position: 1921 - Brief article

Certain it is that every officer of the law, from the lowest to the highest, was convinced of the guilt of the accused before the trial opened, and an atmosphere of condemnation was thus created which can hardly fail to have affected the mind of the jury. The government was out not simply to run down crime but to run two men under accusation. Every resource of the government was strained to convict. And in spite of the weakness of its case, it got what it wanted. All along it perplexed me why the judge saw fit to continue what...