The Calumet news., 1912-02-16
FIVE MURDfRFRS
DIE ON CALLOWS
Are Executed 10 Chicago While
Counsel vainly Try to Sc
cure a Delay
MOTIONS DENIED BY COURTS
Only One Of the Men Breaks Down
and Needs Assistance
Nerve of Jennings, colored Man, Gives
Way When Efforts in His Behalf
Prove Failure.

i Chicago. III, Feb. 16.-Five murder
ers were hanged in the county jail to-
i day, four of whom were executed while
their counsel were vainiy trying 10 OBJ
tain stay order on the ground their
clients were insane and one after hab-
cas- corpus proceedings in the federal
court had been denied. The four were
Frank Shiblawaki. Ewald Shiblawaki.
his brother. Philip Sommerling and
| Thomas Schultz. slayers of Fred w.
| Guelzow, Jr., a truck farmer. who was
robbed and murdered in cold blood on
the outskirts of the city last October.
| The fifth was Thomas Jennings, a ne
gro convicted on finger print evidence
! OF the murder of Clarence Hitler, a
railway official. whom he attempted
to rob in Sept 1910.
Jennings was the only one OF the
five who required physical assistance
To mount the scaffold.
The Shblawaki brothers were the
| first TO mount the scaffold and the
drop had scarcely fallen when a bail
iff from Judge McKinley's Superior
court rushed into the jail office and
summoned Jailer Daviss to court The
command was not obeyed, and instead
Chief Deputy Peters telephoned the
Judge that the two men had been hang
ed and the execution would proceed
unless a formal writ prevented. No
writ was issued and Sommerling and
Schultz followed their companions in
crime on the gallows
Resist Attempt at Delay.
Representatives of the states attor-
reys office resisted the attempt 10 de-
lay the executions and told Mckinley
the petition alleging insanity which
under the law is n bar TO execution.
was presented for the purpose of delay.
This was denied by the counsel for the
condemned men and a wordy alterca-
tlon occupied the minutes in which the
four were being prepared for the gall
lows
Mckinley declined to permit the pc
tltion 10 be filed until it had been read.
The prosecutors insisted the petition.
which was signed by Rev. Repinski.
was not i'm accord with the facts.
Word that the sentence Of the law
had been carried out was taken to
McKinley's court while Rev. Father
Morris. one of the CLERGY wno had Wis
tied the condemned men in jail. was
testifying that in his opinion the four
were insane. The proceedings were
dismissed without further ceremony.
IL am informed the execution has
taken place" said Mckinley. $50 there
is no use in going on with the pro-
ceedings"
After the usual formaltiss the bodies
were given TO representatives of the
families for burial.
Counsel for Thomas Jennings. coll
ored, the NTH murderer sentenced TO
die. while the executions of Guelzow's
murderers was occurring, were argu-
ing before the Federal District Court
Judge Lands that the rights of their
client had been invaded by the intro
duction of finger print evidence in
seeking to convict him of the murder
OF Hillar. Argument on a writ of hab-
eaus corpus was made before lands.
Jennings counsel declared the finger
print evidence was inadmissible be-
cause Jennings had been compelled TO
give the prints while he was In jail.
Juukt l-dnulS ItluNtn " grant Ailt pc
tition of the convicted mans coun-
sci.
Prisoners Hysterieal.
The Guelzow murderers gave up hope
last night when they learned that the
governor and the pardon board had
refused TO commute their sentences.
with several score of relatives who
visited them for the last time. the four
men gave way to a flood of hysteria
that bordered on mania.
Not since the hanging Of the Hay
market rioters i'm 1887 have such
scenes occurred at the Cook county
Jail. The four. Ewald and Frank
Shiblawski. brothers. Phillip Sommer-
ling and Thomas Schultz. finally
threw themselves on the floor OF the
jail corridor They had TO be partly
carried and partly dragged back TO
the death chamber when they at
tempted to follow their relatives out
through the grated door of the corri-
dor,
Mrs. Shiblawsli mother OF Ewald
and Frank. and Julia Kline the Is
year-old fiancee OF Ewald. were led
out OF the jail building by guards af-
ter they had precipitated a frenzy
among prisoners and relatives by their
actions.
Mrs Shiblawski tore her hair and
fought with friends who sought to
quiet her.
"Save My Boys"
Save my two boysi" she screamed.
Cant anyone save them for their
mother2 oh God. how can the world
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