Scope and Content: In connection with a robbery and murders committed Apr. 1920 in South Braintree, Massachusetts, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were indicted Sept. 1920 and prosecuted and convicted in 1921 in Norfolk Superior Court.  After reviews of the trial and conviction by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and by an advisory committee appointed by Gov. Alvan T. Fuller and denial of petitions by defense counsel in the U.S. Supreme Court, the sentence of execution originally imposed on Sacco and Vanzetti was carried out on Aug. 23, 1927.
Notes: Originals presented to Harvard by Henry A. Yeomans and Nora A. Dwyer, 1948; microfilm provided to the Massachusetts Archives to forestall an action of replevin against Harvard by the supervisor of public records on behalf of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, per agreement Dec. 12, 1977
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