Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-16
Break Down When Governor With
holds clomency-Two Brothers First
To ss Executed - Negro jennings
Hanged for Killing Man Whose
House He Entered for Robbery.

Frank Shibla wski, II years old.
Phillip sommerling, 81 years old.
Thomas Schultz, 10 years old.
Thomas Jennings (colored), 80 years
old. sf
Two others were engaged in the
murder of Fred Guelzow with the four
men condemned to be hanged. They
escaped the sentence of their fellows
on account OF their youth. Both were
sent to the penitentiary for life. They
were Frank kita and Leo Suchonski,
each 16 years old.
Brothers Hanged First.
The first of the executions occurred
at 10: 18 a. m. when Frank Shiblawski
and his brother, Ewald. Shiblawski,
were hanged.
Three minutes after the Shiblawski
brothers were hanged a bailiff from
the superior court of Judge Mckin-
ley rushed into the jailor's office sum-
moning the jailer to the court. Coun-
sci for the Guezlow murderers had told
the court the four were insane and
asked that the execution be stopped.
The execution was not Ions, delayed.
however.
Phillip Sommerling and Thomas
Schultz were hanged at 10:49. Jen-
nings' execution followed.
The Murder Of 0usl-nw.
The. men murdered GueIxow on the
northwest side while he was on his way
20 market with load of garden truck
Guelzo, who had been married q little
more than year, pleaded with his as
sailants to take his money but spare
his life for the sake of his wife and
month-old baby. Instead his slayers
attacked him with clubs. knives and
revolvers. After they had killed him
they mutilated his body. They were
arrested while trying to sell Guel-
zow's horses.
The crime was committed Oct 20.
1911. The six were found guilty Dec.
12. The punishment of the two young
est was fixed at life Imprisonment and
the other four at death. They were to
have been hanged Dec. 20, but Cover
nor Deneen granted stay until to-
day.
Jennings was convicted Of having
murdered Hitler in the latter's home.
Sept. 10. 1910, on being discovered in
the act of committing burglary.
Condemned Men Break Down.
The four slayers Of Fred Guelzow
gave up all hope when they received
word from Springfield that the COVER
nor ard the pardon board had refused
to commute their sentences. With sew
eral scores Of relatives who visited
them for the last time the four men
gave way to flood Of hysteria that
bordered upon mania. Not since the
hanging Of the Haymarket rioters In
1887 has such scenes occurred In the
Cook county Jail.
The four, Ewald and Frank Shiblaw-
ski brothers. Philip Sommerling and
Thomas Schultz. finally threw Them
selves on the floor Of the jail corridor.
They had to be partly carried and part
ly dragged back to the death chambers
when they attempted TO- follow. their
relatives out Of the grated door Of the
corridor. ua.
Thomas Jennings, the negro slayer Of
Clarence Hitler. was hanged shortly af-
ter the execution of the slavers Of
Guelzow. His execution was stayed
for a time by the plea OF his lawyers
before a federal court that in being
forced to make thumb prints his con-
.tiutional Immunity from having to
testify against himself had been vio-
lated. The plea was denied by Judge
Lands.
Efforts TO Save stivss..
Desperate eleventh hour efforts were
made by sympathizers to save the lives
of the Guelzow slayers. A Polish Ca
tholic priest this morning declared Do
fore Judge Mckinley int the superior
tS@o4 tha 1syAP
insane. While the death march Of the
shiplawski brothers was in progress
in the jail a bailiff from Judge Nc
Kinley's court stepped t. the Jail Office
and summoned Jailor Davies to court.
But three minutes heSorA the haith 8
arrival the shiplawskis had been
swung into eternity.
Davies refused to obey the summon
to the superior court. Instead CHIEF
Deputy Peters telephoned to the fudge
that two Of the men had been hanged
and that the executions Of the other
two would proceed unless formal writ
prevented.
Writ is Refused.
No writ was issued And Summarizing
and Schultz followed their companions
in crime to the galiows.
Representatives Of the states att0r-
news office resisted the attempts, 10
stop the executions and told Judge
mckinley that the petition alleging In
sanity which under the law IL bar
70 execution was presented only for the
purpose OF delay.
This was hotly denied Ity counsel for
the condemned men and y wordy alter-
cation occupied the minutes In which