Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-16
the four were being prepared for the

gailows. 4.
Judge Mckinley declined to permit
the petition to be filed until It had been
read. The prosecutor insisted that the
petition which WAS signed by Rev. Mr..
Repinski, was not In accord with the
facts.
Jennings was the only one Of the Ave
who required physicni assistance to
mount the scaffold.
Prisoners say Gast Farsws,ls.
Final farewells between the four
white condemned men and their fam
lilies were said at Is clock last nikht.
The scene was heartrending. Women
relatives went into Mysteries. The
prisoners broke down and made no ef-
fort to conceal their tears or to stif!e
their anguished sobs:
Guards had to Intervene when the
final minute Of parting came. Mothers.
fathers. brothers. sisters. wives and
other relatives clung to the doomed
men. They remained locked in en-
braces for several minutes beyond the
allotted time. All were weeping and
screaming when the prisoners were
led back to their cells.
Mrs. Shiblawski. mother OF two OF
the condemned men. was the most in
,consolable. A cousin supported her as
she tottered from the elevator to the
Jail door.
ooh, God forgive them! God forgive
them." she sobbed. She would not be
comforted.
Says Good bye to Baby.
Mrs. Jennie Shiblawski. wife Of
Frank, was dazedi by her grief. She
carried in her arms. her .-week- old
baby. which she had brought to the
jail that the young father might say
farewell to his only child. AS she de-
scended the steps leading from the jail
she stumbled and would have fallen If
a guard had not caught her arm. She
did not weep. Her grief was too great
for tears. s~zs,s4
Outsie the Jail the different families
separated. In the Schultz family were
the murderer's father and mother. his
two sisters. s and II years old. and his
16-year- cid brother.
Mrs. Soemmerlirg carried her 1s-
month old baby girl The baby could
not understand why every one wept.
but from sympathy or instinct she
cried. too. Three Of soemmerling' 8
sisters were In the group.
A score or more relatives saw Shi-
blawski. Mr.. Shiblawski. the father.
was not there. He had collapsed un-
der the strain and was unable to leave
his bed last night to Aay the last good
bye to his boys. with the shiblawski
family was Julia Klipc. sweetheart OF
Ewald Shiblawski. who was to have
married the young murderer the night
he and his gang killed Guelzow. She
wept bitterly after the last farewell
was said.
Condemned Men Issue Statement.
The grief OF the four prisoners was
no less sincere than that Of their fam
lilies. They were inconsolable for an
hour or more after their relatives left.
They sobbed convulsively and cried
aloud to see their loved onexAjust once
again.
After they had aDecome quteted they
made their last statement to the news
papers. In It they express themselves
as sincerely repentant for their crime.
Following Is the statement, voiced
by Ewald Shiblawski for himself and
his comrades:
1--WE are extremely sorry, not for our.
selves, but more for the widow, Of the
man we killed. We would do anything
IL we could bring him back. We are
going where he ts now. It Is our great
est wish that he was coming back
where we are.
'Tf we had the sense then that we
have now we would never have gone
there that night. Oh. for another
chance to live right!
Say Thsy Deserve Punishment.
'FVa ALI know we deserve punish =
ment but We can't help feeling that
the punishment we are getting now is
not the one that will do the most good.