Note: This application for commutation of sentence just received by me while not ideally satisfactory is according to many of those close to the case the one practicable or hopeful plan. I submit it to you. Paul Kellogg seeks signers. Watch the New Republic for a remarkable letter to Lowell and analysis of evidence.
N. T.
For Commutation of Sentence
If by August 22 the final efforts to secure a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti have proved fruitless they will be put to death unless Governor Fuller intervenes. Massachusetts procedure is unlike that of many jurisdictions and may again constrain its Supreme Court to refuse to consider evidence as well as law. Such an outcome would augment rather than allay the sober doubts of the world as to the guilt of these men and the fairness of our treatment of them. It will be remembered that Dreyfus was declared guilty by both the military and civil tribunals of France only to have his innocence proved later. No similar redress will be possible once these men are executed. To keep that door open will you join with other responsible men and women, believers in America, in an eleventh hour plea for commutation of sentence? Wire us yes. Wire Governor Fuller direct. Get your friends to wire.
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