Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-11-29
FOUR MURDERERS
ARE SENTENCED
To DEATH
Chicago Judge InvOkeS Extreme
Penalty Upon the Youthful
SIayerS of Truck Farmer.
Two Get Life Terms,
IBy Morning Journal Special Leased wirel

IBy Morning Journal Special Leased wire,l
Chicago. Nov. 2S.-Four boys were
found guilty of murder in the first
degree and sentenced to death. and
two others were given sentences OF
life Imprisonment tonight for tho
murder Of truck farmer on the out
skirts of the city a month ago.
The four sentenced to death are
Ewald ana Frank Shiblawski, Phillip
Sommerling and Thomas Schultz.
The two sentenced TO life imprison-
ment are Frank Kita and Leo
Suchomsky, both sixteen years old.
The victim of the youthful thugs
was Fred w. Grueizow. He was
murdered while on his way from his
truck farm to Chicago markets with
a load of produce. Two of the boys
had revolvers, two had butcher
knives and the other two had clubs.
The evidence showed he pleaded
for his life on his knees. offering the
boys all his possessions because he
had wife and a baby a month old
at home. The answer of the youths
was to beat him into unconscious
hess with clubs SO that his skull was
fractured, his jaw broken and his
nose dubbed nearly Off
When the man was unconscious,
he was stabbed four times i'm the neck
and his throat was cut, The corpse
was dragged into a nearby thicket.
club was jammed down the throat
and several bullets fired into the life
less body.
The boys were arrested while try
ing to sell some of the booty. one
OF them had on the farmers boots.
Ewald Shiblawski is "a years old
his brother is 2l, Sommering is "a
and Schultz 49,
The jury was out only two hours
and only one ballot was taken in con-
sidering each case. The youth of the
two 16year-old boys was all that
saved them from hanging, the jurors
said, each member Of the panel
feeling that they lacked the Judgment
of their older companions, and that
a chance for pardon should later be
given them.
A heavy guard stands tonight about
the county jail, about the home OF
the prosecutor, that of Judge Petit
in whose court the verdict was return
ed and a policeman is detailed to
guard the home Of each of the jurors.
Just before the men were taken in
to the court room TO hear the verdict.
they told the iailer that should the
death penalty be voted to them a band
OF their comrades was prepared to in
wade the court room or follow to their
homes those responsible for the sent
ence and revenge the verdict
However. no disturbance save the
hysterical shrieks of relatives Of the
doomed men, interrupted the pro-
ceedings. When the verdict was read
one by one the men as they We're
named in the messages of death, col
lansed and had to be assisted to III =
cells.
The life imprisonment sentences
We're the last read and the reaction
which followed the unexpected order
that life should be the price of their
crime. threw Kita into COMMISSIONS
and his companion became hystericaL
The widow of the murdered man
sat in court holding her baby In her
lap and heard the four men sentenc-
ed to give up their lives to the state
in return for the one they had taken
from her. She nodded her head APP
proyingly. then broke down and wept
crying that the verdict would not re-
store her husband.
The boys are locked in separate
cells tonight each under guard.
Frank Shibawski and Sommerllng
are married and their wives were
present when the order of death was
read. The four men sentenced TO be
hanged We're defended BY an attorney
appointed by the court, they refusing
to employ counsel. The parents of the
two boys furnished legal aid for them