Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-11-30
MEN must DIE,
BOYS GET LIFE
FOUR MEN SENTENCED TO HANG
TWO BOYS GET LIFE M
PRISONMENT.
FOULLY MURDERED farmer
Disregarded Victims Pleas for Mere,
Because lie Had Wife and
Child at Home.

CHICAGO, Nov. 2S-Four men
were adjudged guilty Of murder in
the first degree and sentenced 70
TO life Imprisonment by jury tonight
for the murder of n truck farmer on
the outskirts of the city a month
ago.
The four sentenced to death were
Ewald and Frank Shibawski, A. Phil
lips sommerling and Thomas s.
Schultz. The two sentenced TO life
imprisonment were Frank Kitz and
Leo suchomski, each l6-years-old.
The men slew and robbed Fred w,
Gruelzow In spite of his supplication
for life. because he had wife ana
baby TO support. The boys all con-
fessed.
A Unique Plea.
In his final plea for death penal
ties Assistant States Attorney Day
made an unique closing argument. II
consisted solely Of excerts from ad-
missions made by tho boys to the
police and on the witness stand with
ont comment.
1t was as follows:
THAT Gruelzow had almost reached
the city with a load of garden pro-
duce when the six boys set on him,
armed with two revolvers two but
cher knives, a club atnd hammer;
that when he alighted from his wa
gon he was struck down with the
club; that he pleaded for his life on
his knees, offering the boys all his
possessions, because he had wife
and baby, a month old at home; that
they beat him into inconsistencies
with their clubs.
A Terrible Crime.
While the man was unconscious he
was stabbed four times in the neck
with tho butcher knives. the cropse
was dragged into a nearby thicket,
club was jammed down the throat
and several bullets were fired into the
body. The boys were arrested while
trying to sell some Of the booty.
Ewald Shillawslsi is 24years-o old F;
his brother is 81. Sommedling, a
brother-in-law of Frank Shillawski Is
s4-years-oll and Shultz is 19-years-
old.
The jury was out only two hours
and only one ballot was taken III
year-old boys was all that saved them
from hanging, said the Jurors.
The verdict calls down death on
more persons than any verdict ever
rendered in Cook county, with the
exception of when the four Franks
were hanged on a single scaffold.
Prosecutor is Guarded.
A heavy guard tonight stands about
the county Jail and the home of the
prosecutor, Day, and a policeman Is
detailed to guard the home of each
of the jurors.
Just before the men We're taken
into the court room to hear the ver-
dict they told the jailor that should
the death penalty be reached, band
of their comrades were prepared to
invade the court room or the homes
of those responsible for the sentence
and avenge the verdict.
No disturbance save the hysterical
shrleks of relatives OF the doomed
men Interrupted the proceedings,
however.
Victims Wife Pleased.
When the verdicts were read, one
by one, the men collapsed as they
were named In the messages of death
and had to be assisted to their cells
in the Jail by guards.
The life Imprisonment sentence for
Kitz threw the boy into convulsions.
while Suchomski, his young compan-
ion became hysterical
The WIDOW of the murdered man
holding her baby, heard the men
sentenced. She nodded her head
npprovlngly then broke down and
wept crying that the verdict would
not restore her husband.
WOMAN WHO SHOT HUSBAND TO