Henry Iacovelli, the shoe-worker who took Sacco’s place in the Kelley factory, testified that he received a letter from Mr. Kelley offering him Sacco’s job as an edge-trimmer, a highly important function in the factory mechanism. He replied that he could go and talk with Kelley on April 15; went to see him that day; called at the Sacco home to see Sacco; Mrs. Sacco informed him that her husband was in Boston arranging for passports.
The original correspondence exchanged between Kelley and Iacovelli was introduced as evidence by the defense.
Sacco declared under oath that he took the 8:56 o’clock train from South Stoughton to Boston on April 15, to arrange for passports to Italy. South Stoughton is 19 miles from Boston.
In Boston, Sacco said, he had lunch with friends at Boni’s restaurant in North Square, then went to the Italian consulate to see about the passports. A photograph of his wife, his son Dante and himself which he brought was too large for consular purposes; there was considerable conversation about that; he was instructed to furnish a smaller picture.
On the streets he met and talked with certain persons. Going again to North Square, he spent some time in Giordano’s coffee-house; then went to East Boston, where he paid a bill for groceries, and finally returned to Stoughton on a train about 4:20 p. m.
Prof. Felice Guadagni, journalist and lecturer, testified that he had lunch at Boni’s on April 15 with Sacco and Albert Bosco, editor of La Notizia. While they ate, John D. Williams, an advertising agent, entered and joined them. Sacco told them about his intention to visit the consulate. They discussed the banquet given that day by Italians to Mr. Williams of the Boston Transcript who had been decorated by the King of Italy for the stand his paper had taken in the war—a memorable occasion among Boston Italians.
Later that afternoon Guadagni met Sacco again in Giordano’s coffee-house. And after the arrest of the defendants, Guadagni said he visited the consulate and talked with Giuseppe Adrower, clerk there, establishing the fact that Sacco had applied for a passport on April 15 and had been sent away because the photograph he brought was too large.
Prof. Antonio Dentamaro, Manager of the Foreign Department of the Haymarket National Bank in Boston, testified in court that he met Sacco in Giordano’s coffee-house on April 15, between 2 and 3 p. m. Remembered date because he went to the Coffee-House directly from the banquet to Mr. Williams which he had attended.
He especially remembered meeting Sacco because he had sent a message by him to Leone Mucci, a member of the Chamber of Deputies in Italy.
They had talked about Sacco’s prospective return to Italy. Sacco had said he had come to Boston to get his passport.