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Boston, Aug. 20—(AP)—Dr. Ray A. Billington, director of a federal writers’ project which compiled a Massachusetts guidebook criticized by Governor Charles F. Hurley for its references to the famed Sacco- Vanzetti case defended the refer ences as simply ‘statements of fact. The governor said that he “does not agree with many of the pas sages in the volume” and “believes these passages are expressions of facts as interpreted by a group.’ The guide book explains that “in 1920, a fish peddler, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, and a shoe worker, Nicola Sacco. xxx were arrested on the charge of murder and robbery in connection with the theft of a $15,000 payroll. Despite their alibis, the highly circumstantial nature of the evidence and the commen dation of previous employers, they were ultimately adjudged guility.’ The men were executed on Aug 23, 1927.
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Dixon Evening Telegraph
Dixon, Illinois, US
Fri, Aug 20, 1937
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