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The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti
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them. After Sacco's arrest she was taken to the Dedham jail and identified Sacco as the dark-complexioned man. She again identified him at the trial.

How came she to connect the dark man under the car with the murder which took place four hours later?

Q. Would you say that the man had a fuller or more slender face [than the man in a photograph shown to the witness]? A. I don't know. He had a funny face. * * *

Q. Meaning by that a face that was not a kindly face, a kind of brutal face? A. He did not have a real good looking face. (R. 198.)

Q. [By the Commonwealth] What came to your mind, if anything, when you learned of the shooting? * * * A. Why, the only way I can answer that is this: When I heard of the shooting I somehow associated the man I saw at the car. (R. 251–2.)

Four reputable witnesses completely discredited the Andrews testimony.

A. Mrs. Campbell, an elderly woman who was with Andrews throughout the episode, testified that, while they saw an automobile in front of the factory, the man they accosted for information was not the man under the automobile but a man "in khaki clothes" standing near (R. 624):—

When they came out neither she nor Mrs. Andrews spoke to a man at the automobile in front of the Slater & Morrill factory.

Q. Did you hear Mrs. Andrews have any talk with any man who was working around an automobile that morning? A. No, sir.

Q. Did Mrs. Andrews speak to a man? A. No, sir.

Q. (continued) Who was working about an automobile that morning? A. No, sir. (R. 625.)