Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian immigrants who on April 15, 1920 were accused of armed robbery of the payroll at a shoe factory, and the murder of the guard and paymaster who were on duty. On July 14, 1921 the jury declared them guilty of both crimes one was stealing the money and the second was the double homicide. On August 23, 1927 the two men were sent to be killed and right after their death, people decided to further investigate their case. There are many arguments weather these two men are innocent or guilty and there are two views on the matter. There are traditionalist views and there are revisionist views. There have been a number of reasons as to why these men could possibly be guilty or they could possibly …show more content…
The first piece of evidence that was in question was a hat found next to one of the victim’s bodies at the crime scene. According to Doug Linder who wrote “The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti” “Katzmann had a medical examiner compare hairs found in the cap with hairs taken from Sacco, and the expert concluded that the hairs were identical.” The medical examiners evidence was not used in trail but the owners son was called up to speak and he had said that the hat looked like one that Sacco would wear at work and the hole that was mad in the cap could have been from where he hung it up on his hook. For Vanzetti he lied about the gun that he had on the night of the crime. He had said that it was his and he bought it from a friend for only a few dollars, he also lied about how many chambers the gun had, and lied about where the bullets had come from. “The Harrington & Richardson revolver found on Vanzetti was the very Harrington & Winchester revolver that Berardelli was thought to be carrying when he was murdered.” This piece of evidence suggests that Vanzetti took the guards gun from him, shot him and then took off with his gun. The next piece of evidence was the