The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-11-29
ELECTRIC CHAIR FOR GUN MEN
JURY FINDS NEW YORK GANG
STEERS GUILTY
OF First Degree Murder-"Gyp the
Blood Lefty Louie" "Daso
Frank" and whitley Lewis"

New York.-Gyp the Blood, Lefty
Louie, Dago Frank and Whitley Lewis
killed Herman Rosenthal, the gam
bier, at the instigation of Charles
Becker and must pay the penalty OF
death in the electric chair. The jury
which has been hearing the evidence
against the four gunner SO decided
Tuesday when it returned verdict
Of murder in the first degree after
but twenty minutes of deliberation.
The gunner heard the verdict pro
nounced against them without show
Of emotion. They stood at the bar
looking straight ahead as the fore
man Of the jury made known the re-
suit of it's deliberations, and they con-
tinued to stare stotidly in front of
them until the formalities OF the pro
ceedings were concluded.
Whitley LeWis-he who was the
most dramatic Of the four when he
testified on the witness stand-alone
walked with head bowed. AS they
entered the door leading over the
bridge of signs, Gyp said something
to Lefty in sullen undertone which
none could hear. Outside, Lefty's
doll-faced wife, "Lefty's Lillian as
she is called, weH on the shoulder
OF her husbands father, who vainly
tried to comfort her. Gyp's wife,
known as 'Gyp's Lillian" received
the news in the house of detention.
The other gunmen are unmarried.
Former Magistrate Charles G. F.
Wahle, counsel for the gunner, an.
nounced that he would appeal from
the verdict, and as in the case Of
Becker, months may elapse before
their ultimate fate is determined
Although the jury was actually out
of the court room an hour and five
minutes, it was but twenty minutes
after their retirement that word
reached the clerk of the court that
they had arrived at a verdict
The final day of the trial opened
with Justice Goff's charge to the jury,
which occupied three hours. The
charge emphasized many points In
the trial of the gunner which the
prosecution, in its summing up, had
declared were discrepancies fatal to
the credibility of their stories.
If the defendants contention were
true that Rose and his companions,
Weber. WALTON and Schepps, shot
Rosenthal would he have invited them
around to the Metropole hotel to the
scene of the shooting?' Judge Golf
asked the jury.
Did the defendants tell the truth
! when they said they saw Rosenthal
shot and were near enough to distin-
guish the faces of those who did the
shooting, but did not see Rosenthal
fall?"
WAS the testimony of the three
defendants in the support of the alibi
Of Dago Frank interposed by prear-
rangement?"
"The verdict was a just one and
will meet with the approval of all
right.thinking citizens said District
Attorney Whitman. TT means the
beginning CT the end of gang rule
in New York City. From now on this
office will push the case of every man
arrested as being a gangster They
will receive no mercy. and the public
opinion that has been aroused by
the killing of Herman Rosenthal will
support the prosecuting officer of the
county in his endeayors to remove
these pests from the city.
Weber, Rose and Valon will be
released as soon as the attorney
makes an application for such re
lease. They will not run away-that
| am sure of. AS for Schepps, he was
only held as a vagrant and he Ger.
tainly has served his term. / shall
not oppose his discharge The jury
that decided the case of the gunner
did not seem to regard Shapiro as an
accomplice and l shall move for his
discharge"