The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-16
DANGLING At THE END Of A ROPE
WITH HUMAN BLOOD ON Their HANDS

the scaffold Schultz, the 1s year old
boy to save whose life such desper-
ate efforts had been made, said:
God forgive me. did not know
how terrible IT was" Quickly the exc
cutioners adjusted the straps and the
traps were sprung, the second time.
The Negro Last.
An hour later the negro, Jennings
followed the same path from the death
cell. He was weak, but showed no
sign OF breakdown. The priests ac-
companied him and he Carried cru
cifix which he kissed before the cap
was pulled down. Then for the third
time the trap dropped and the five
lives had been snuffed out; the law
had been vindicated.
The bodies were turned over to the
state embalmer and will be turned
over to the relatives.
Parents Mourn.
In their little home near Bowman
vile, a suburb, the parents of the
two Shiblawski boys awaited the news
of the execution with fearless sor-
faces. The aged father
said for his wife and himself:
"Our poor boys have paid for their
crime. God help them. We would give
our lives to cleanse them. hope God
has forgiven them. We did the best
I'VE could for them when they were
children. They always went to church
and school. Perhaps had we done
more for them, they would never have
been tempted to commit such a
| crime"
! One Mans Sweetheart.
"Ah, God, it is too much. I cannot
! believe it. They did not hang him.
/ My Walter, he was always SO good
and true to me-
Sobbing these words Julia Klein
lis years old sweetheart Of Ewald
\. I.1Walterl Shiblawski who was hanged
4 this saarri; sss, cssissd to h9iieye ihai
I the man she loved was dead. Wher
\ told that there was no doubt about it
4 the girl Historically fell into hel
mothers arms and wept. Last nigh
4 when she took her final leave in the
county jail, the girl cried:
I. "Oh, Walter, Walter, love you so
It cannot be that you are to die. They
. do not know you, who condemn you,
alone know that you are good ant
4 true can live no longer If they take
your life
; The girl had believed implicitly il
the man she was to marry and durint
), the long weary months of the trial ant
the preparations for death, the CIR
worked constantly to earn money t
carry on the fight for life. She hat
saved little money which was to 6
:, toward finishing a home. All of thi
! went for the defense of Ewal6.
The girl labored night and day fo
!. the defense of her lover. She Interest
ed settlement workers and lawyers i
his plight. The mother of the Shii
=. lawski brothers often told the gil
she was working herself to death.
"It makes no difference she re
DllGu. IlluSi save llilll loA iis osI
las we'll as for himself | cannot liv
! without him and if fail, too, sha
die
/ Most Brutal Crime.
The murder. of Fred Guelzow was d
: clared by the police to be the mos
brutal in the history of Chicago. Th
/ young truck gardener was held u
! robbed and murdered as he was cor
{ ing to market, near Bowmanville. Oc
e 20, last. Ewald Shiblawsk was a
{ rested a few days after Guelzow
7 disappearance. He was wearing h
q victims shoes. Ewald Immediate
: confessed and implicated his broth'
and other members of a gang. A
later admitted their part of the Grim
: Ewald's confession as read to the jul
= at the trial was in part:
: "Guelzow was terribly scared wht
~ we stopped him. He told us to tai
!; his money and stuff but to let him 6
/. One of the gang told me to quiet hi
. and / did good and plenty. / kick,
a him down. But he cried out about b
ts wife and taby. Then I jammed
- stick into his mouth while the othe
- were beating him. Somebody pull
knife and began stabbing him. Yt
we fixed him good and plenty. Aft
we stripped him he was not quite de;
20 and we beat him some more. TIL
ie We dragged the body into the voc
and hid it,
IN The jury convicted after only fl
a. minutes deliberation. Six men we
ID found guilty but two, because of ths
~ youth, (t6 years. were sentenced
OF life Imprisonment.
IL The Crime of Jennings.
ne Jennings broke into the home
ne Clarence Hitler, railway clerk. a
ic attempted to assault his daughter. +
as Ter aroused from his sleep by t
lie cries of the child, grappled with t
negro and was shot dead. The neg
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