03025cam a22003613u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000420012624500180016824600120018626400510019830000470024933600260029633700260032233800360034850001070038450000310049150801750052252017130069753400650241065300290247565300360250485600610254085600430260199900190264478153UtSlPG20260610134818.0mcr n260607r20261929utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a29009814  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aKF1 aMarks, Jeannette Augustus,d1875-196410aThirteen days1 a13 days 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aThe "thirteen days" of the title refers to the period of reprieve before the Sacco-Vanzetti execution.  aRelease date is 2026-03-09  aShawn Carraher and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)  a"Thirteen days" by Jeannette Augustus Marks is a historical account written in the early 20th century. It offers an eyewitness chronicle of the final days surrounding the executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti and their immediate aftermath, seen from inside the Boston Defense Committee. Through close contact with figures like Mary Donovan, Aldino Felicani, and Gardner Jackson, the work examines justice, public protest, police repression, and the moral strain on those involved.

The opening of this work follows the author rushing to Boston in August as the committee braces for an execution date, capturing tense scenes inside the cramped headquarters, heavy police scrutiny, and the quiet endurance of the prisoners’ families. A last-minute twelve-day reprieve shifts to renewed organizing, picketing, and arrests, with Donovan’s relentless efforts standing out against official stonewalling. The narrative builds to the night of August 22, when final appeals fail and the executions proceed, recorded in spare, shocked detail. In the days after, crowds view the bodies, Donovan is arrested for displaying Judge Thayer’s inflammatory words, and protests erupt worldwide. The “March of Sorrow” funeral procession—tens of thousands walking eight miles in rain with red armbands—pushes on despite repeated police harassment, ending with a pared-down group at Forest Hills and a stark cremation service. Throughout, the author interweaves brief portraits, last letters, and a pointed critique of the institutions and elites that enabled the outcome, contrasting their power with the prisoners’ composure and the mourners’ resolve. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1929  aSacco, Nicola, 1891-1927  aVanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1888-19274 uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.269282&seq=1340uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78153  c118873d118873