F. Lauriston Bullard

“ We hope, in case our supreme bench finds itself unable legally to authorize a new trial, that our governor will call to his aid a commission of disinterested men of the highest intelligence and character to make an independent investigation on his behalf, and that the governor himself at first-hand will participate in that examination if, as a last resort, it shall be undertaken. ”

“ His evidence now is offered in behalf of two other men whose lives also are at stake. We submit that Madeiros should be placed on the stand in open court, facing a jury and a judge, and subjected to examination and cross-examination. He may be lying, but the criterion here is not what a judge may think about it, but what a jury might think about it. The question is, Would the new evidence be a real factor with a jury in reaching a decision?
We submit that doubt is cast on the verdict of the jury by the important affidavit made after the trial by Captain C.H. Proctor of the state police. ”

“ Mr. Weyand said in his affidavit: "The conviction was the result of cooperation between the Boston agents of the Department of Justice and the district attorney." We do not know that this is true, but we know there was cooperation; the department and the attorney joined in placing a spy in the cell next to Sacco's, and the prosecution admitted the fact in court.
Now as to Madeiros: A criminal with a bad record, true, and under sentence of death. But the government relied in part on one of his confessions to convict him of a murder. ”