Sacco vs Vanzetti Trail

Police Report of Sacco vs Vanzetti Trial

Suspects Information:
Nicola Sacco-
Borned  in Torremaggiore,Italy 1891. Droped out of school at age 14. Worked as a waterboy then worked as a pick and shovel. In 1917 he met Vanzetti.
Bartolomeo Vanzetti-
Borned in Villafelletto, Italy in 1888 . Worked at his father's pastry shop. Mother died in his arms, never got over it.In 1917 Sacco and Vanzetti left to Mexico to avoid WWI

Acused of shotting and killing two men and robing there money.

Nicola Sacco:

• Seven Eyewitnesses placed Sacco in the scene of the crime the night it occurred. A few more testified that the man they had seen in the scene looked like Sacco.
• There was a fired bullet found in the scene of the crime. It matched up with Sacco's pistol. Two out of Three bullets matched up with Sacco's pistol.
• A cap with a hole was found in scene of the crime. Sacco was in the habit of hanging his cap on the wall. One of the witness testified that the cap looked liked the one Sacco owned. The cap found in the scene was the same color and style that the one Sacco owned.
• A car  was found two days after the crime, in the woods near the house of a man named Boda's. The car was taken to a car repair shop owned by a man named Johnson who's wife called the police. Sacco and Vanzetti left the house in a hurry.
• The same day the crime was committed, Sacco missed work at the K-3 Shoe Factory

Bartolomeo Vanzetti:

• Four witnesses saw Vanzetti get off a train at East Braintree at 10 o'clock
• One of the witness, a man named Dolbeare claims to have seen Vanzetti back up a car near South Braintree Square
• Lavangie said to have seen Vanzetti driving a car at South Brantree right after shots were heard
• A gate keeper said to have seen Vanzetti get out of the passenger side of a car crossing Bridgewater
• The gun found on Vanzetti at the time of his arrest was said to be similar to the one Berardelli,a paymaster guard, had on him when he got shot. Both pistols had a fixed hammer 

Extra Information:

• On April 15,1920 in South Braintree, Massachusetts,  two men where shot and killed,Frederick Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli. They were employees of the Slater & Morrill Shoe Company.  The thieves robed the men of the $15,776.51 payroll they were carrying.  
• Sacco and Vanzetti are arrested on May 5, 1920 at around 10pm. Both man are armed. Vanzetti was carrying shotgun shells and the police belived that he was the shotgun bandit of Bridgewater.
• Sacco and Vanzetti state that they do not know Coacci and Buda
• On May 31,1921 a trial begins at Dedham, Massachusetts agaisnt Sacco and Venzetti 
• When in trial  the maximum sentence was of 12 to 15 years.The juge in judge was Judge Thayer