The Kunstler Constituency

tions on the night of their arrest. Even that explanation seemed halting and unsatisfactory 32 years later.

The driver of the motorcycle on the night Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested was Ricardo Orciani, a moulder in a factory near Dedham. Traced by his motorcycle’s number plate, he was arrested after Sacco and Vanzetti but soon released when he furnished a time- clock alibi that he had been working on April 15. Although nothing could be proved against him, it was the prosecution’s contention that he, Boda, Coacci, Sacco and Vanzetti were the men who had been involved in the South Braintree holdup and that the four—minus the deported Coacci—had gone to Bridgewater on May 5 for Boda’s car to use it in one more holdup before Sacco’s scheduled return to Italy on May 8.

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John R. Coyne Jr.

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tions on the night of their arrest. Even that explanation seemed halting and unsatisfactory 32 years later.

The driver of the motorcycle on the night Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested was Ricardo Orciani, a moulder in a factory near Dedham. Traced by his motorcycle’s number plate, he was arrested after Sacco and Vanzetti but soon released when he furnished a time- clock alibi that he had been working on April 15. Although nothing could be proved against him, it was the prosecution’s contention that he, Boda, Coacci, Sacco and Vanzetti were the men who had been involved in the South Braintree holdup and that the four—minus the deported Coacci—had gone to Bridgewater on May 5 for Boda’s car to use it in one more holdup before Sacco’s scheduled return to Italy on May 8.