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An editorial criticizes Jane Addams for wanting to disarm policemen.

Collins informs Addams of efforts in Colorado to lobby for a commutation of Nicholas Viana's death sentence.

The author asks Addams to try to stop Nicholas Viana's execution.

Also known as Lynched Two in Ten Days, May 22, 1911

Newspaper report of the lynching of six black men in Lake City, Florida, accused of murdering Robert B. Smith, a prominent white man.

Hart tells the ACLU that the prisoners that they asked to be released have refused parole until other prisoners were freed.

Also known as Lord Mayor of Cork

A Guardian clipping reports that sixty men were sentenced to ten years imprisonment for connection to the Caherguillamore shootings and that the Lord Mayor of Cork testified in Washington.

Knox takes issues with Addams's opposition to capital punishment, offering examples of English justice.

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

Stetson asks Addams to protest the Sacco and Vanzetti execution.

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

Addams explains how educational background, economic situations, and family predicaments have an impact on juvenile crime; and she argues for special treatment of the "juvenile adult." This is the tenth article of a monthly, year-long series on economic and social reform in America and a women's roles in affecting change.

Addams thanks Borah for assisting the Sacco and Vanzetti defense.

Addams thanks Borah for helping the Sacco and Vanzetti defense.

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

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

Addams defends her views on capital punishment, replying to a critical editorial.

Addams defends her views against capital punishment for minors.

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

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

Addams asks Hoover for clemency for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti as a means of foreign-born Americans

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

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

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

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

Addams is among the signers of a petition to pardon Charlotte Anita Whitney.

Addams asks MacDougald to organize the women of Atlanta to seek a reprieve for Leo Frank in order to review the evidence.

A narrative describing the social and economic background of four men convicted of murdering Frank Guelzow.

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.

Freeman writes Landsberg a lengthy story about how he ended up in jail.

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

Laidlaw demands that Gaynor protect social workers operating in New York City's Chinatown .

Laidlaw writes to Waldo about an brutal attack on a female social worker in New York City's Chinatown and demands an investigation.

Laidlaw tells Addams about Rose Livingston's condition after being attacked for her anti-vice work.

Abbott writes Speranza with Jane Addams' opinion that the North American Civic League should conduct an investigation into crime and immigration in New York.

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

The Tribune reports on the sentence of social worker Anita Whitney.

Speranza's assignments of Committee on Crime and Immigration members into subcommittees.

Speranza accepts MacChesney's invitation to serve as chairman of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology Committee, which includes Jane Addams.

Speranza complains to MacChesney that his committee has been unable to do much on their research on immigrants and crime.

Speranza thanks Abbott and Jane Addams for their work on behalf of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology in its investigation of the courts.

Speranza asks the members of the Committee on Crime and Immigration to inform him of particular questions the committee should consider and that they will convene via correspondence due to the difficulty of scheduling a meeting of the group.

Pinchot tells Addams that he cannot pardon prisoners under Pennsylvania law and advises that the American Civil Liberties Union follow the procedures.

An article that criticizes the imprisonment of Charlotte Whitney on the grounds of free speech.

Greeley praises Addams' article on the Averbuch Incident and discusses his sojourn in Maine.

MacVeagh writes Addams about his intention to read her Charities and the Commons article on the Averbuch incident.

Rich disputes Addams's views on capital punishment, claiming that sentimental opposition results in more crime.

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

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

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

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

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