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Trial Has Taken Seven Weeks--Judge Thayer Is Exhaustive in His Charge to the Panel. Dedham, Mass. July 4—A jury’ this afternoon retired after seven weeks of testimony to deliberate on charges that Niccola Sacco and Bar tolomeo Vanzetti killed a ‘paymaster and his guard in a robbery at South Braintree a year ago. They were ‘given the case at 2.48. The jury was charged by Judge Webster Thayer to seek courage in its deliberations, “such as ‘was typi fied by the American soldier boy as, he fought and gave up his life upon the battlefields of France.” “Crimes committed affect the’ safe ty of human lives, the sanctity of homes and the security of private and ‘public rights,” Judge Thayer said. “The law grants to every person the same rights and privileges and imposes upon each ‘ corresponding duties, obligations and responsibili ties. Whoever is willing to accept the blessings of government, should be perfectly willing to serve with fi delity that same government. “In the administration of our laws there is and should be no distinc tion between parties. Under our law all classes of society, the poor and the rich, the learned and the ignorant, the most powerful citizen as well as the humblest, the believer as well as the unbeliever, the radical as well as the conservative, the for eign born as well as the native, born are entitled to and’should receive the same rights, privileges and consider ation as the logic of law, reason and sound judgment, justice and common. Bense:denings “I therefore beseech you not to fol low the fact that the respondents are Italians to influence or prejudice you in the least degree. They are entitled to the same rights and consideration as though their ancestors came over in the Mayflower. ““The law does not require proof so positive, so unerring and convincing that it amounts to a mathematical or absolute certainty. You might ob tain proof of that character in the exact sciences, but not in human in vestigations. For you must remem ber that we are all engaged in hu man investigations in which all the evidence must ‘be considered, weighed ‘and determined by jurors who are hu man beings.” The’ judge instructed the jury on the degrees of murder, first and sec ond, carrying respectively the death penalty and life imprisonment. Chicago, July 14—Dining car prices have dropped 26 per cent since the war and will be reduced further, according to T. A. Dempsey, presi dent of the American Association of Dining Car Superintendents in ses sion here.
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Biddeford Journal
Biddeford, Maine, US
Thu, Jul 14, 1921
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