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The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
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Boston, June 20: Sacco and Vanzetti receive two-week stay to prepare affidavits for new trial, bolstering Celestino Madeiro's confession that the Morelli gang committed the South Braintree payroll robbery and double murder for which the Italians were convicted.
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BOSTON, Mass., June 20. Sacco and Vanzetti have been granted a two weeks' stay of sentence to allow their attorneys to present affidavits in support of a new trial.
The affidavits will strengthen the confession made by Celestino Madeiro who charges that a gang known as the Morelli gang performed the payroll robbery at South Braintree, Mass., for which Sacco and Vanzetti have been convicted.
Madeiro claims he fell in with a gang of thieves in 1920 and participated in the robbery that resulted in the double murder with which the two Italian workers were charged.
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Boston, Mass.
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June 20
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two weeks' stay of sentence granted to allow attorneys to present affidavits for new trial; madeiro's confession implicates morelli gang in payroll robbery and double murder
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Sacco and Vanzetti granted two weeks' stay to prepare affidavits supporting new trial; affidavits strengthen Celestino Madeiro's confession that Morelli gang performed South Braintree payroll robbery resulting in double murder