Harry Canter lived in East Boston. He was a Radical. He was the Communist candidate for Secretary of State. When the Radicals held a political demonstration last November in front of the State House, within which was Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller, Harry Canter participated by marching around carrying a placard which said: "FULLERMURDERER OF SACCO AND VANZETTI." Harry Canter was arrested. To the policemen he said: "Law isn't made for the workingman."
Did Harry Canter's placard literally accuse Governor Fuller of committing the crime of murder? Last week a Boston jury decided that...