Murder Of Braintree Research Paper

Simon Gittany was a male perpetrator. In almost 4 out of 5 intimate partner homicides the perpetrator was a male (Australian Institute of Criminology 1998).

The detective genre is recognizable by the mystery that it represents or establishes. Every word of a fiction novel is chosen with a purpose, and that purpose on a detective novel is to create suspense. The excerpts from The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, Murder Is My Business by Lynette Prucha, and Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley, create an atmosphere of suspense and mystery. Even though they all fit into this category, there are some differences that make each novel unique. The imagery that the authors offer in the excerpts helps the reader to distinguish the similarities and the differences.

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti “two obscure Italian aliens, became the focal point of one of the most controversial episodes in American history”;(ATF CH11p257) when they were arrested on May 5, 1920 for “suspicious character” and connection with the Slater Morrill Shoe Company robbery. Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested carrying hunting weapons and extra ammunition on the way to pick up Mike Boba’s car, which was believed to have connected them to robbery of the Slater Morrill Shoe Company that had occurred on April 15, 1920. Sacco and Vanzetti’s actions depicted “the kind of foreign menace American nativist most feared” (ATF chapter 11p 270), making them prime suspects for the robbery. However the lack of evidence that existed to convict Sacco and Vanzetti lead to the exposure of the fault lines that existed

On April 15, 1920, the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts, fell victim to an armed robbery. According to Louis Stark’s article “Are Sacco and Vanzetti Really Guilty,” “...two men shot and killed a paymaster and his guard carrying $15,700”(Stark 1). According to witnesses these men were middle-aged Italian immigrants and possessed 32-caliber automatic handguns(1). As eye-witnesses were

During the investigation, “Lyle and Erik told the officers that they were somewhere else at the time of the killings and they thought of possible people that would do such a thing. Lyle told the officers he thought the people who killed their parents might be someone who was in the Mafia” Menendez v. Terhune (2005). “Thee investigators and police officers picked up on Lyles suggestion and began to investigate that lead. To add to the “lead,” Lyle immediately hired body-guards to “protect” him twenty four hours a day. He told his body guards that he thought it was gang related and he also told his girlfriend the same fake story” Menendez v. Terhune (2005).

This dueling document, “Two Sides of Haymarket,” includes the two view. Which explains on the topic presented by a verdict of a murder and a judge who gives their own opinion about the laws that the people need to follow. In this article there is a clear explanation of the accident, which led to arrest and conviction of eight people for the murder of police officer Mathias J. Degan. Who died as a result of the explosion of a pipe bomb at a labor rally organized by anarchists in the Haymarket Square in Chicago on May 04,1886.

The case of Sacco and Vanzetti sparked a national outcry for justice as well as a national debate over American values. Two Italian immigrants, shoe operative Nicola Sacco and fish peddler Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were falsely accused robbing Braintree’s Slater and Morrill Shoe Company and murdering two of the factory’s workers (After the Fact 256). At the time of the Braintree holdup, the police were investigating a similar crime in Bridgewater. In both cases a gang was involved, and the suspects escaped in a car. Eyewitnesses believed the criminals to be Italians. So, when Sacco and Vanzetti appeared at a parking garage near Braintree and drove off in a car police suspected was getaway vehicle in both crimes, Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested

Sacco had seven eyewitnesses, while Vanzetti only had four. Those four only saw him around the crime scene and none of their stories matched up. While being questioned Vanzetti said he had been selling fish in Plymouth. In the case report it says, “Six witnesses testify that they saw Vanzetti in Plymouth near the time of the crime”

Over a year period, there were twelve crimes committed and possibly one mysterious suspect. What brought the city to their attention was the first crime made on May 23, 1918 when an Italian grocer, Joseph Maggio and his wife were butchered in their apartment during the night above the Maggio grocery store

At the beginning of the century, Americans were disappointed with the outcome of the European war. This resulted them to go against all things foreign, which included racial political ideas and immigrants. The country had to face many decisions made by communists, which created the Red Scare. The Red Scare was a spread of the fear of communism. One of the most important cases involving the Red Scare was the Sacco and Vanzetti case. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were Italian, atheists, conscientious objectors, and radicals, were both accused of the murder of a paymaster and his guard at South Braintree, Massachusetts. They were both holding revolvers and told lies to the judge and court, but the flaws in evidence proved they were not guilty. “Many critics believed that the accused had been found guilty of radicalism rather than murder- that they were martyrs in the ‘class struggle’” (Race and Ethnicity Packet). Their conviction illustrated the unfairness of the trial based on the beliefs and race. The American jury and judge for the trial was

In 1919, shortly after the First World War when the Anarchists and Socialists had loudly shouted that they did not support America’s fighting the war, there was a wave of attempted bombings across the USA by Anarchists against local, state and federal officials. Then, in Massachusetts, two pay officers delivering a payroll to a company were ambushed, murdered in broad daylight, and the money was stolen. Sacco and Vanzetti were known Anarchists who were vocally unhappy with the USA and happened to look just like these two.

The Judge was Webster Thayer from Worcester. Felix Frankfurter, then a professor at Harvard Law School, said, “Part of the jury was specially selected by the sheriff’s deputies from Masonic gatherings and from persons whom the deputies deemed ‘representative citizens,’ ‘substantial,’ and intelligent” (Frankfurter). The deputies’ biased selection is one of the many ways in which the trial was unfair. Frankfurter also stated, “The chief counsel for these Italians was a westerner, a radical, and a professional defender of radicals.” Sacco and Vanzetti generally misunderstood the questions they were asked because they spoke very broken English. Felix Frankfurter stated, “In fact, an interpreter had to be used, whose conduct raised such doubts that the defendants brought their own interpreter to check his questions and answers.” This is a prime example as to how untrusting everyone involved in the trial was. In the end, about thirty-seven percent of the witnesses testified for the commonwealth and about sixty-three percent for Sacco and Vanzetti

The Italian Justice System is an inquisitorial system (Huziker, 2016). In an inquisitorial system, the court is involved in the investigation (Huziker, 2016). The judge and the prosecutor work together in investigating the case (Huziker, 2016). This is interesting because, the judge also decides whether the accused is innocent or guilty (Huziker, 2016). Before the trial starts and due to the inquisitorial system used, the judge has a preconceived notion as to which way they want to favor (Huziker, 2016). The Italian court is set up with three judges and six “lay assessors of facts” (Krings, 2015). There is no oath taken for the defendant when they take the stand (Huziker, 2016). When it comes to the Amanda Knox case, the main topic was on innocents or guilty (Linth, 2013).

On November 11, 1887, Albert Parsons, August Spies, George Engel and Adolph Fischer the four of the seven anarchists were hanged on the gallows by the state of Illinois, despite worldwide protests. As they were to be executed, August Spies cried out: “The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today”; George Engel shouted in German, “Hurray for Anarchy!”; and Adolph

Once upon a time, there was a fast food place in Popsiko. The fast food place in Popsiko was owned by Aryan and Reid. Reid was the chef, and Aryan was the waiter. The fast food restaurant was called Bingo Star Burgers.