Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-11-27
GUNMEH QUAIL
IN DEATH CELL
Sight of little Green Door"
Unneryes Than.

New York. Nov. 27.-The four gun
men sentenced to death for the muir
Ger OF Herman Rosenthal have broken
down. Their hitherto Iron nerve has
left them. Occupying adjoining cells
on an upper tier In the death house mt
Sing Sing they can look directly down
into the cell on the opposite side of the
in which Charles Becker Is sit
ting.
They can look. too. directly upon the
little green door through which they
must all pass to their final reckoning
for the killing of Herman Rosentlal
unless the decision OF Justice COT is
reversed ny a new trial.
This little green door. to which the
eyes OF the gunmen must inevitably
turn many times during the next few
weeks. is just beyond the cell next to
Becker's The walls of Becker's cell
separate him from the room where first
degree murdeiers meet their final pun
lshment, and the head of the forme!
police lieutenant as 1t lies on the pillow
Of his hard couch at night Is Just three
tEtt W ~ ItpLD Liz tltN u II Vial
When "Gyp the Blood" Lefty
Louie" "Dago Frank" and Whitley
Lewis" entered the death chamber yes
tcrGay afternoon. saw Becker sitting
in his cell aud saw the little green door.
the smiling confidence which had char
acteriz.d their actions from the time
they received their sentences at the bar
Of Justice tioif's court vanished. and
they became four frightened. daZe0
men In danger of their lives. They
looked iearfully about them and. cling
Ing close to another, turned wide
eyes upon Sheriff Hamburger ana
Keeper O"TOoie.
They stumbled RS they were led up
the narrow stairway which leads to the
tier Of four cells above the entrance to
the chamber and blanched as they We're
pushed into their cells and the doors
slammed upon them.
Death House Is Full.
The coming Of the gunmen brings the
number of inmates Of the death house
up to seventeen. which is as many as
can be accommodated there. For~any
pther prisoners who may have to he
lodged in the house Warden Kennedy
Is having built extra cells In one corner
Of the death house yard.
Tha~ggGstffaepwti net have long %
stay In their cells before they will
have to see a brother Inmate pass
the little green door. For
some time during thu week of Dec
l6 Matteo Del!orne. an Italian from
Kings county, viii die In the electric
for murder. The sentence will
be executed by Edward Davis, who
will also have the killing OF the gun
men il they are not acquitted. lie
gets $3.50 for each execution.
The largest crowd which has eve
gathered to witness the incarceration
Of convicted murderers lined the way
along which the four gunmen walked
to the prison. No one had Sheriff
and his twelve deputies.
armed to the teeth, succeeded In get
ting their prisoners off the train at the
Ossining station than the whole party
swamped by a mob. The crush
was 80 great that Sheriff hamburger
was torn from the side Of the gunner
and held up helpless at the side of the
road with his hands in the air and his !
revolvers bullying IN his o%vercoat pocA
cts at the mercy of the crowd.
The prisoners themselves were JOS
tied roughly, and Lefty, Louie" shout,
ed to those about him to "qult crowd
ii-g" All our learned at once that
the sheriff had become separated froIn
them, and they refused to move on
Until he was brought back.