History of the sacco and vanzetti case the robbery the armed robbery that began the sacco and vanzetti case was remarkable for the amount of cash stolen background of the accused sacco and vanzetti were both born in italy and coincidentally both arrived in america in the trial sacco and . L affaire sacco et vanzetti est le nom dune controverse judiciaire survenue dans les annees 1920 aux etats unis concernant les anarchistes dorigine italienne nicola sacco et bartolomeo vanzetti condamnes a mort et executes. On may 5 sacco and vanzetti two italian anarchists who had immigrated to the united states in 1908 one a shoemaker and the other a fish peddler were arrested for the crime on may 31 1921 they were brought to trial before judge webster thayer of the massachusetts superior court and on july 14 both were found guilty by verdict of the jury. Sacco was a shoemaker and a night watchman born april 22 1891 in torremaggiore province of foggia apulia region in italian puglia italy who migrated to the united states at the age of seventeen before immigrating according to a letter he sent while imprisoned sacco worked on his fathers vineyard often sleeping out in the field at night to prevent animals from destroying the crops