Roaring Twenties | Rise of the Radicals | 1
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The Wall Street Bombings
Anti immigrant sentiment bubbled up to the surface once again, in connection with a robbery and double murder in massachusetts that became one of the decade's most notorious crimes. On april fifteenth, two men, a paymaster and a payroll guard, together carrying more than 15 thousand dollars were shot dead outside a shoe factory near boston. Three weeks later, they arrested a 32 year old shoemaker named cola saco and a 29 year old fishmonger named bartolomeo venzetti. Saco and venzetti were italian immigrants who were followers of luigi galiani, the radical anarchist who had inspired the april and june bombings in 19
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