Thursday July 14, 1921. Sentences, reports and passings.

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were found guilty of the murder of Frederic A. Parmeter and Alessadro Bernadelli in a robbery.

Vanzetti and Sacco.

Both men were Italian born anarchists. Their trial was problematic to the degree that it can be regarded as potentially fatally flawed, although historians have concluded that both men were probably involved in the anarchist plot that resulted in the crime even if they were not the murderers.  Of course, their involvement may have been tangential, and nobody should receive the death penalty for a crime they did not commit.

The trial was not the celebrated cause it is now immediately at the time, but problems with the trial soon became evident, and it then became widely known.

Eamon de Valera met with Prime Minister David Lloyd George in London.  Following the two-hour meeting, Lloyd George met with King George V concerning the earlier meeting.

Morgan Bonaparte Mizell, made famous through a Frederic Remington illustration, died at age 58.  He was a hard living Florida "cracker" cowboy.