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Addams notes the role of private detectives in violence during picketing.

Starr urges the public to believe the experts who claim that evidence was misused against Sacco and Vanzetti.

Williams breaks down inconsistencies in the government's report on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, highlighting the misinterpretation of evidence.

Newspaper reports on Brown's letter to the Boston Herald regarding the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

Article publishes Borah's telegram to Addams refusing to interfere in the Sacco and Vanzetti trial.

Young argues to the editor that outsiders should not question the justice system.

Haldeman-Julius tells Addams about her life and work on the Thomas Mooney case.

An editorial criticizes Jane Addams for wanting to disarm policemen.

Kellogg asks Addams to add her name to a request to get a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti.

Stetson asks Addams to protest the Sacco and Vanzetti execution.

Lovett asks Addams to join a group seeking to have the Sacco and Vanzetti case files opened.

Freund asks Addams to intercede for Sacco and Vanzetti with Governor Fuller.

Addams appeals to Fuller to commute the death sentence of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Balch signs an appeal to the Government of Belgium to release August Borms from prison.

Lovett asks Addams to join the Committee, offering an outline of its goals.

Grece tells Addams that her speech failed to take into account Christian morality.

The Post criticizes Addams’s arguments against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Cotterell tells Addams about his view on crime.

Crooks writes to the Gazette editor defending efforts to commute the sentence of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Jackson tells Addams his ideas about the cause of crime, blaming in part the message in David Harum, an 1896 novel by Edward Noyes Westcott.

Addams thanks Borah for assisting the Sacco and Vanzetti defense.

Addams asks Fuller to give Sacco and Vanzetti a reprieve from the death sentence.

Addams tells the Committee that she has telegramed President Coolidge and Governor Fuller.

Addams thanks Borah for helping the Sacco and Vanzetti defense.

Borah tells Addams that he disagrees with her views on the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

Holland tells Addams that they might turn the outrage against the Sacco and Vanzetti verdicts to a movement to overhaul the legal system.

Addams sends Borah a clipping to explains her support of clemency in the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

Borah tells Addams that he will not intervene in the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

Cooper asks Elliott's opinion on the role of the settlement in a neighborhood.

Lovett tells Addams he will print her note on the Sacco and Vanzetti trial and shares family news.

Addams tells Kellogg that she supports his idea to try to save Sacco and Vanzetti.

Kellogg and Hapgood ask Addams to support an effort to get a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti.

Addams thanks Martin for her help in advocating for the pardon of Charlotte Anita Whitney within the League.

Newspaper describes the death of victim of a police shooting.

News report of altercation between young men and women in Wauwatosa.

Newspaper story of a young girl being brutally attacked by two men she was with. Relates to the rise in crime in America during the Prohibition Era.

Article discusses the creation of an American Crime Study Commission to investigate the causes and prevention of crime.

Kotty tells Addams that reformers are the cause of moral laxity and that bringing back saloons and red light districts will improve morality.

Haffner asks Addams for data about the increase in crime and its relation to national origin.

Gilman asks Addams to intervene to prevent the execution of Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

Addams asks Fuller to set aside the death penalty for Sacco and Vanzetti because the trial was unfair.

Mary Field reports on her interview of Addams with regard to the criminal case against Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb for the murder of fourteen year old Bobby Franks in Chicago. Other comments were made by Carl Sandburg and Elllsworth Faris.

Armes describes Russian refugee Jan Pouren's efforts to enter and remain in the United States.

Addams describes the positive impact of Prohibition and argues for better enforcement and disarmament in order to improve things.

Addams discusses the increasing rate of juvenile crime and the efforts to combat it at a meeting of the American Crime Study Commission.

Addams discusses crime, juvenile delinquency and efforts to humanize justice.

Addams speaks on the value of public schools to a democracy.

Addams discusses the impact of prohibition on urban communities and notes a gradual increase in availability of alcohol due to home-based distilling. Addams gave this talk to the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek Social Workers' Clubs at the Y.W.C.A. building.

Addams asks Borah to intercede to prevent the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Addams condemns the future execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, claiming it will harm relations between the US and its immigrant inhabitants.

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