Louis Bernheimer

“ Campbell, she saw a car standing outside the factory. She saw a “very light man” inside the car (concededly neither Sacco nor Vanzetti) and another man “bending over the hood of the car,” whom she characterized as a “dark complexioned man.” She went into the factory in search of a job, and at the time had no talk with either of the men. When she came out, “fifteen minutes later,” the dark man “was down under the car, like he was fixing something,” and she asked him the way to another factory. ”

“ Carlos E. Goodridge, (who, after the trial, was discovered to have been a fugitive from justice in another state, and to have given evidence under a false name) , swore that at the time of the shooting he was in a pool room in South Braintree; heard shots; stepped to the door; saw the automobile coming toward him, and when he got to the sidewalk a man in the automobile “poked a gun” over towards him—whereupon he “went back into the pool room.”
About seven months later [1] he identified Sacco as that man for the first time, [1] and identified him again at the trial. ”

“ Few murder cases have attracted the anxious attention of the entire civilized world over so long a period of time as the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti at Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. ”

“ He testified that the murder car drove up to the crossing just as he was lowering the gate. A man inside forced him, at the point of a revolver, to let them through before the advancing train. He identified Vanzetti as the man driving the car. His testimony was discredited by the testimony of McCarthy, locomotive fireman of the New Haven, who testified that three quarters of an hour after the murder, “Le Vangie said, ‘There was a shooting affair going on.’ I says, ‘Some one shot?’ I says, ‘Who?’ He says, ‘Some one—a fellow got murdered.’ I said, ‘Who did it?’ He said he didn’t know... ”

“ Mrs. Johnson telephoned the police. The car, not being available, the Italians left, Sacco and Vanzetti to board a street-car for Brockton, Boda and the fourth member, Orciani, on a motorcycle. Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested on the street-car, Orciani was arrested the next day, and Boda was never heard of again.
Stewart at once sought to apply his theory of the commission of the two “jobs” by one gang. ”

“ These men and women are only a few dozen of many thousands of petitioners. The list goes on to include thirteen members of the Columbia Law School faculty, nine members of the Yale Law School faculty, six members of the Kansas Law School faculty, six members of the Missouri Law School faculty, five members of the Illinois Law School faculty, the entire faculty of the Minnesota Law school, twenty-five members of the faculty of Clark University, 123 members of the faculty of Smith College, members of the faculty and 650 students of the University of California. ”

“ Four witnesses squarely contradicted Goodridge’s belated identification. (a) Andrew Manganaro, the employer of Goodridge, told Goodridge, after the arrest of Sacco and Vanzetti, that he (Goodridge) should go and see if he could recognize them and find out if they were the murderers. ”

“ Unfortunately, I have been down there to get a job, and I have seen many men that I don’t know, and I have never paid any attention to any one.’”
(c) In February, 1921, Andrews complained to the police of an assault on herself in her apartment in Quincy. To George W. Fay, a policeman who investigated and who asked her if the man who assaulted her was one of the men she saw at Braintree the day of the shooting. She said she could not tell because she didn’t see the faces [1] of the Braintree men. ”

“ Devlin, a month [1] after the murders, testified: “He, (Sacco) looks very much like the man that stood up in the back seat shooting.” Q. “Do you say positively that he is the man?” A. “I don’t say positively.” [1]
At the trial, a year later, [1] she had no [1] doubt, and when asked: “Have you at any time had any doubt of your identification of this man?” ”