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Massachusetts. Division of State Police
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In connection with a robbery and murders committed Apr. 1920 in South Braintree, Massachusetts, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were indicted Sept. 1920 and prosecuted and convicted in 1921 in Norfolk Superior Court. After reviews of the trial and conviction by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and by an advisory committee appointed by Gov. Alvan T. Fuller and denial of petitions by defense counsel in the U.S. Supreme Court, the sentence of execution originally imposed on Sacco and V...
Massachusetts. Department of State Police
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St 1919, c 350, ss 99-110 established the Massachusetts Dept. of Public Safety under the supervision and control of a commissioner, to exercise and perform the functions of the District Police Force and related bodies (RL 1902, c 108), and to include a Division of State Police under immediate charge of the commissioner. Like the District Police, the State Police had and exercised throughout the Commonwealth the powers of constables (except as to service of civil process) and of poli...
