New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-21
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by a squad of deputy sheriffs, headed
by Sheriff Hamburger. The court pro-
ceedings were occupied merely with
taking the pedigrees of the prisoners
and setting a day for sentence. JUS
tice Golf took occasion, however, TO
crticise the law which makes it nee
essary to place convicted man under
oath when he gives his pedigree.
Leaning forward and smiling at Mr..
Wahle, counsel for the gunner, he
said:
"a few years ago law was passed
making It necessary for the court to
| impose an oath on person convicted
as he makes his statement regarding
his pedigree TO the court. ] do not
know why this law was passed, unless
IT was to give sociologists and crimi-
nologists an opportunity to get mans
true record. / know Of no law TO
punish a man in a case like this who
will not take the oath. But the law
says that he must be sworn. 1t must
have been made b some theorist who
| thinks that the whole human race must
| be reformed. The oath will be put TO
each defendant, and he may decline to
be sworn If he wishes. They cannot be
punished for contempt of court"
Mr.. Wahle said that he had advised
each Of his clients to be sworn and give
his answers. Clerk Penny formally
administered the oath to each of the
gunner before they were questioned.
Gunmen Give pedisrees.
Whitley" Lewis gave his correct name
as Jacob Siedenshnur. and said he was
twenty-four years old and born in Rus
sian Poland He said his address was No.
POI East I'd street. lie gave his occupation
as bookbinder, and added that he was sin
gle, was moderately temperate and had
received religious instruction. He said he
could read and write, and that both his
parents were living.
! "Dago" Frank answered that lie was an
| Italian and that both of his parents were
| born in Italy. His right name was Cero-
| fci. he said. He was a steamhtter, TWEEN
| ty-seven years old and had lived in West
|
number OF the house. He said he was
married could read and write the Eng
! lish language was "A moderate drinker.
that his mother was living, and that ne
had received religious instruction.
| Lefty" Louie Rosenberg said that he
was twenty-one years old, and that his
| parents were born in Austria, but nc had
| been born in New York. He gave HIS
home address az No. 7Js Woodward ave-
nue., Brooklyn. the house in which ne and
| 'Gyp" the Blood were arrested by the
police. He stated that he was a salesman
| by occupation, was temperate, and had
received religious training. Both his pa
rents were living. he said
| "Gyp the Blood" Diary Horowitz) said
| he was twenty-four years old, a clerk,
| living at No. A East 9Sth street He and
both of his parents were born in this city,
he said. He was married, temperate and
able TO read and write. Horowitz ac-
knowledged four previous convictions for
minor crimes. The other defendants ad-
mitted that they had been convicted Of
crime before.
Mr.. Wahle first asked that the day Of
sentence be fixed for next Wednesday.
but Justice Goff suggested that II would
be better not to place It on the eve Of
Thanksgiving, and Tuesday was set. The
court granted Mr.. Wahle's request TO
defer any motions he would make until
the day of sentence.
Gunmen's Girls Released.
Lillian Horowitz wife OF "Gyp" tho
Blood, and Jean Gordon. also known AS
Rose Harris, "Dago" Franks girl, were
released from the House OF Detention by
Justice Gof, where they had been de-
tanned as material witnesses They were
IN court when the four gunner were ar
raigned. and sobbed together during the
proceedings. AS soon as they were dis
charged they went TO tho Tombs and
spent some time with "Gyp" and "Dago."
Lillian Rosenberg, wife Of Lefty" Louie,
is out on bail. and her case was not men
toned by Mr.. Wahle yesterday.
Referring TO the motions he would
make when his clients were sentenced,
Mr. Wahle said later:
Il am going to move Tuesday for the
verdict 10 bet set aside on the ground
that II is against the weight OF evidence
and because Of errors Of law during the
trial, and. further, on the ground that
the verdict was rendered merely from an
impression that the jury entertained, and
not as a result OF considering the evil
dence. The jury convicted these four
young men OF murder in the first degree
in half an hour after trial lasting eight
days, at which fifty witnesses we're ex-
| amined."
The four informers in the West Side
prison began TO pack their belongings
yesterday, in anticipation of their release
to-day. The wives OF Rose, Weber and
| WALTON were at the prison early and car
ried away suit cases filled with their hus-
bands clothes, All four men had the
neighborhood tailor whom they have
patronized during their incarceration
press the suits they will wear 10 go out
into the world again. Shspiro's mother
and sister called on him. Mr.. Sander
counsel for Rose, WALTON and Schepps,
found his clients in cheerful mood when
he visited them late in the afternoon.
! They were anxious to get out last night,
but he told them 1t couldn't be arranged.
A man who said he was a close friend
OF Jack" Rose appeared at the prison in
the afternoon with large bundle which
he told Warden Malon contained bot
tied stuff from the Hotel Cumberland"
He was admitted, and later came out with
Mrs Rose IL looked as IL the prisoners