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 Aug. 23, 1927.
Restrictions: Boxes 1-2 (i.e. originals) are restricted. Access by permission of state archivist or curator of Massachusetts Archives only
Notes: Transferred to Archives from State Police Headquarters, Feb. 6, 1997. Photocopied from: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives and Records Preservation. Reference files/Dept. of Public Safety Commonwealth vs. Sacco and Vanzetti. State Police files (v. 2). Location of originals unknown. Transferred to Archives from Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives and Records Preservation, Mar. 4, 1997.  Photocopies retained in its: Superior Court Dept. Norfolk and Plymouth Counties Commonwealth v. Sacco and Vanzetti. Reference files (folder 12)
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