The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-16
Especial from United Press.)

Chicago, Feb. 16-Dying as they had lived, unconcerned, almost without emotion and with their natures barely touched by the efforts of the religious men who labored with them, four of the murderers of Fred W. Guelzow paid the death pena ty in the county courthouse here today. The men ex- ecuted were:
 Ewald shiblawski, 24; Frank shib- Iawski, 21; Philip Somerling, S4; Thomas Schultz, IS.
 The men made no ante-mortem statements. All had confessed the crime and when all hope of respite themselves as ready to mount the scaffo!d. Not one hesitated, Ewald Shiblawski who, with his brother, was hanged first, being assisted in mounting the sea fold by a prison of ficial.
 Early today lawyers for these men and Thomas Jennings, the negro also sentenced to hang today, made final efforts to save them The Supreme court at Springfie d was vainly ap- pealed to and proceedings to have the fore Judge Mckinley here. All pleas were disallowed by the courts.
 After hearing arguments on the charges that Thomas Jennings con ed in forcing him to make finger prints, on which evidence he was con victed of the murder of Clarence Hil- Ter, Federal Judge Landis refused to order a stay of execution The court held that such evidence was a part of the identification of the prisoner The stolid, unco4Ieerned nature of the white murderers, their seeming utter disreTard of their own fate and their indifference to the suffering of others. was accentuated last night when 40 relatives gathered in the corridor of the jaiI for the final Ieaveta king. The aged mother of the Shiblawski boys screamed and sobbed as she hyster- icalIy clasped her sons in her arms. Julia Klein, the young girl whom ESwald was to marry, threw her arms about his neck and had to be parted from him by force. The wives of ling and the parents of Thomas Schultz were present.
 When the 1ailer announced the time for departure had arrived, Ewald Shiblawsk said:
 'fYes, take them away. We love them, but it makes us think too much of tomorrow to see them crying here"
 Then came the priests. Fathers OBrien, Rapinskd and Mcdonald spent hours with the men, praying with them and hearing their last confes- sions- When the priests then de- parted, the condemned men sat down to pay poker. They gambled on their money, their trinkets and their clothes.
 When they slept, their slumber was heavy and uninterrupted. Today they ate heartily, then saying mass with Father OfBrien. They were then in- formed that the courts had refused to
 well. there's nothing else for us We're ready, ain't we fellows?" said Som erling. When the death march of the Shiblawski brothers began. the other prisoners in the jail set up a terrific bowling. They moaned and har7 of their cells. The noise was deafening but slowly and deliberately, with a priest on each side of them and one marching before, the two brothers said their newly learned prayers.
 On the scaffold platform they kept their heads bent and their eyes fixed upon the faces of the priests. They bent their arms to facilitate the fix ing of the traps. There was no halt in the proceedings. The sombre hoods men they still prayed.
 A signal from Chief Deputy Peters and the traps were sprung simultane- ously. The bodies quivered and whirl- ed at the end of the ropes. Members l of the three juries of physicians, 42 in all. rushed forward Ewald, man of light frame, was not dead
 A physician grasped his body and bore down with all his weight to aid death. Both forms were convulsed | ana few minutes later became limp. l They were pronounced dead. The l physicians declared that death to the 1 brains' had been instantaneous. The l
  quivering for eight or ten minutes after the trap was sprung.
 As quickly as these bodies were cut 1 down, word was brought that Somer- | ling and Schultz were ready. The | priests had left the scaffold as soon | as the black ShroudS were adjusted | and returned to those waiting in the | death cells.
 ''Yes. it's all over. am ready. Il will die right. I will die because I | killed man." said young Schultz. as the priest told him to steel himself | in the face of death. The prayers these two followed the others in the death march. They exhibited the ! same stoic indifference to the howls 1 and din of the prisoners in the jail | and paid no attention to the crowd | of 200 who witnessed the hanging. As | he mounted the scaffold, Schultz, the | Is year old boy to save whose life | such desperate efforts had been made, | said:
 God forgive me. I did not know | how terrible it was"
 Quickly the executioners adjusted | the straps and the traps were sprung | for the second time.
 An hour later, the negro, Jennings, l followed the same path from the | death cell. He was weak. but show l ed no sign of a breakdown. The | priests accompanied him and carried | d crucifix which he kissed before tn e | cap was pulled down. Then for the | third time the trap was dropped and | five lives had been snuffed out. the | law had been vindicated
 The bodies were turned over to the | state embalmer and will be given to