The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-19

The four defendants, 'Gyp the Blood Lefty Louie,. ..Dago Frank, and ''Whiteya Lewis heard themselves char acterized by District Attorney Moss as the hands which held the instruments of death--the hands of the body of which Rose. webber and vallon were the brains, and Lieutant Charles Becker the will He referred to them as that battery of gun men"
 He declared that the witnesses who iden- tified them showed the courage of sol- diers marching to the cannon's mouth !" He beseeched the jurors mot to be afraid of bullets In considering their verdict.
 Wahle Pleads for Prisoners
 By their attorney, Charles C. F. wahIe. tho defendants were pictured as men who had been criminals, but who were inno- cent of this erime-the victims Of the tes- tinony of @the men who really killed Ros- enthal-Rose, Webber, yallon and Schepps."
 ''Gyp the Blood and Lefty Louie" lis tened to the eloquence of the two lawyers with stolid faces. Their fellow defend- ants, "Hhitey Lewis and ''Dago Frank, 70 were visibly affected.
 Mir. wahle began his plea for the lives or his clients with the assertion that Jack Ross was the guiding spirit that put the shots in Herman Rosenthal Rose, he characterized as a criminal for a score of years and never caught. You must have weighed beneath the derths of the calm demeppgr of Jack Bpsa ,aounsol satd, rae dtgfsdaiioi' ana cfssHaAafty oi lis character His was the brain that directed the plot which webber, vallon and schepps carried into execution"
 Reviewing the evidence MT. Wahle faid it proved that Rose fired the gunmen with animus That he sought them out In the, framing up of Jack zeng their gang leader.
 Roses desire to prove his innocence. that's the shibboleth of the entire case" declared Mir Wahle.
 For three hours Wahle addressed the court He devoted the greater part nf his address to an attack on the com monwealth informers.
 T believe that my clients, like Rosen- thai, are the victims of a diabolieal con spiracy,' MT. Wahle concluded. The records of these defendants are against them, but you must not try them on Inelf TetDi0H. dfNt iio tHpst ltAl bbH and l will make men of them, but don't be partners of the men who want them to go to the electric chair.
 Moss Begins Address
 Assistant District Attorney Moss be- gan his address to the jury shortly after o'clock.
 Becker Is the directing will. Rose. webber and Vallon were the brains and these defendants were the hands he said. ''The interests of law and order and the protection of life and property demand not only that the man who formulated the murder plot shall be punished. but that 1t may be found equally dangerous for the thugs and gun men fo feel that sentimental sympathy for youthfulness or any other weaker emo tion may protect them from punishment after the principal has been discovered and convicted"
 He added that without the evidence Of Rose, Webber and Vallon and with out entering into stipulations with then the state would have been unable to un- earth the conspiracy
 "The long heralded surprise which vas to be developed by the defendants upon this trial, was the giving of testimony that Rose Webber and Vallon had fired the shots against Herman Rosenthal. fact never stated by any one in public until this trial occurred and it seems from the evidence that the purpose of making this accusation was to undermine the condition upon which Rose, Webber and vallon had been accepted by the state, and 10 subject them to prosecution be- cause oe violation of the condition that they had not fired at Rosenthal He pointed out that the defendants own testimony showed they were together that night and went 10 the immediate prox- ifnity of the Metropole. and being within 70 feet of the actual murder. saw the shots fired but claimed they did not sec Rosenthal or know anybody had been shot
 Moss Defends Informers
 Defending the states eye witnesses, Mir. Moss said.
 .sThe courage of these men, not only in testifying, but in facing that battery of four assembled men and assassins, go- ing straight to them and touching their persons while looking them squarely in the eyes. that was no holiday pastime; and the palJng of those men and the .aDparent rise of the soldieriy spirit in them as they marched upon those mur- derers. made one of the most impressive spectacIes that has ever happened in a court of justice.
 MT. Moss declared that Shapiro, driver of the murder car" was undoubtedly innocent. but that the state did not know if when he was arrested. and would not have known who was innocent. or guilty. if it had not been for the signing of the stipulations witp Rose, ""etber and Val lon.
 Tt may require some courage for a Jury to bring in verdict of murder against these men," he continued, but this is 4 rare time for the performance or great public duty to the commorl- wealth.
 This is fhe crime of crimesa a chal- 'lenge to civilization blow in tie face of American law and order. call upon yon for a verdict that will yindicate law and order and make these guninen and their friends reaiize that there is a God sin Israel justice in the state of New ~~><~~>~~~-~~~>>-~~-~~~
 (COntlnucd on rage Two)