i and Boda. His only reasons for suspecting them were because they were Italians and Boda was said to own a Buick or an Overland which was said to be the type of car driven away from the crime. Stewart found that Boda had his car taken to the shop for repairs. When Boda and Coacci went to pick up the car Sacco and Vanzetti met them there. When the police came to make arrests Boda and Coacci had already left, and only Sacco and Vanzetti were still around so they were arrested. Vanzetti was carrying a loaded .38 Harrington and Richardson revolver. At the police station, Sacco was found to have a .32 Colt automatic, fully loaded which was the same caliber of gun used in the murder. Both men lied about where they were and how they got their guns. They were vague in their responses to questions about their political beliefs. In reality, Sacco and Vanzetti thought that their arrests were connected to their anarchism or their draft-dodging, since neither the Bridgewater assault nor the South Braintree killings were mentioned. They were locked up for the night. The trial began the day after Memorial Day, May 31, 1921. Sacco was represented by Fred H. Moore, a lawyer from California noted for his defense of radicals. Vanzetti's counsel was Jeremiah McAnarney, an associate of Moore's. It took over a month to select a jury. The press talked a lot about Moore’s out-of-state origins, and his willingness to defend unpopular radicals.The case for the prosecution was developed along three principal lines. First, Katzmann produced eyewitnesses that placed Sacco in the area of the killings. Four identified Vanzetti, seven recognized Sacco. Of these eleven witnesses, only one, Lewis Pelzer, testified that he had seen the shooting, although prior to the trial he had told the defense that he had ducked under the table when the shooting began and had seen nothing. After further questioning it was found that these prosecuting eyewitnesses really were m...
