New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-14
GUNMENTS FUNERALS
EXCITE EAST SIDE
morbid Thousands Choke
streets TO See Corteges
on Way to Burial.
CpOWDS ARE BITTER
THAT BECKER LIVES
podies of the Four Men Brought
from Sing Sing-Hard for the
Police TO Keep Order.

Fast side declared 2 half holiday
..,erdsy 10 receive the bodies or LEFTY
- and Whitley Lewis At noon
l"- 80 hogan TO assemble, and by the
Ian, NJ the afternoon thousands OF per
n,D1' ,,e-e I'm the vicinity Of the home OF
-. roYi,.s" mothe--in-law. 296 Grand
.,5 the undertaking place OF Hirsch
e.husrtz. 80 Wllett ST.. where the
- NJ ..Whrey Lewis was 10 be
held
s.. the Clinton ST station and Captain
o.~o,nor had a busy afternoon. At night
~ ,be crowds were just as large as II
49, osbov," wasn't over. The body Of ia
- eeidenshner was taken over the Will
,S..sb,,-p Bridge shortly after 3 o'clock,
nd through a megsphone Captain O'Con-
ro- announced again and again that
~ ,..,,' vould be buried from his fathers
,ome in The Bronx. and would not be
even 10 the home where his wife has
hssn living since his arrest.
Lpparent 10 any one mingllng in the
,-ord WIS the sentiment that though the
,oys had come 10 an untimely end, yet
,hsv had belonged 10 the East Side. OF
packer on the other hand. there was only
,D.l.diction. WHY should they XIII ouT
boys they cried. land let Becker i've
Crowd Blocks streetcars.
60 treat was the press in Grand ST. that
Al. car line traffic was practically az
s.sndstIl. From Eldridge 10 Allen SITS
IN, IAN nearly filed the street from house
front 10 house front. The police dispersed
The crowd time and again. and finally re-
,tored normal conditions when the word
rassed along that the funeral of Whitley"
vss on its wav 10 Mount Zion Cemetery
IN Maspeth. Then the curious flocked to
The Williamsburg Bridge plaza, still in
Captain O'Connor's precinct. however
He had been IN personal charge down in
narrow villett St. between Delaney and
Rtvngton Louis Hirsch had gone TO Sing
Sing in the morning 10 get the body OF
s.idenshner. He returned ct 2:S and
reached his place Of business with diff
Guilty. His auto undertaker's wagon stalled
its engine several times in the press.
The family Of the gunman had been in
the little shop some time, they. too.
having been hard put 70 II 10 reach the
place. The parents o. the Rosenthal
SLAYER. his Two sisters and three brothers
we're in the party
Twelve reserves, all the captain could
spare. were tossed about in the crowd like
50 many bits Of cork on a choppy sea.
Once the body was in the combination
stable and garage which the undertakers
maintain the police were harder pressed
than ever. II seemed that all the three
thousand people in the street wanted 10
burst into the stable 70 look at the body
Of the man who had sat in the electric
chair less than ten hours before. Their
clamor drowned the sobs and wailing Of
the parents and sisters OF the dead man.
In fact. the family Of Whitley" made
no effort 10 control their grief. and so
hysterical did the mother and sisters be
come that II was only by supreme effort
on the part Of the three sons that they
were kept up while the body was being
prepared for burial This done II was
placed IN g plain coffin and put in
hearse OF the old-fashioned kind, with
curtained sides. Father. mother and the
sisters went In the first carriage and the
brothers IN the second.
rhrone Bares Heads.
As the procession passed into the street
the crowd fell back with barred heads. The
hearse and carriages then proceeded 70
R!vington st. 10 Orchard, past the
Romanla schosl. thence TO Delaney st
and the Williamsburg Bridge plaza. The
crowds there nearly filed the available
'tanding room, and they were speedily
Joined by the thousands who had followed
The procession from Wilett st. Captain
OConnor. with every reserve policeman in
service was forced 70 call on the Oak ST.
station for assistance
The best he could 90 was to prevent the
crowd from following out over the bridge,
Where there was already on the south
t!oe q morbid crowd OF curious Held
hack. the crowd settled down TO wait for
the Lefty Louie" funeral All announce
rsnts that 1t would never come that way
we're received with silence and disbelief
After an hour an obscure Italian funeral
Procession vending its way from the East
SIDE 70 cross the bridge and 60 10 some
Long Island cemetery appeared in sight.
There was rush. Policemen we're
brushed aside by the sudden unanimity
With which the crowd moved. Then dis
Appointment as the true nature Of the
funeral was discovered: then a relapse
into tho previous state Of waiting.
Meanwhile. the Whitley" Lewis process
son had gone on over the bridge. At the
other end there was a huge outpouring
captain Shaw and the reserves OF the
BEDFORD ave. station held them I'm check
however. % the hearse and two carriages
lsssed through 70 the Jewish cemetery, in
&aspelh
Ten Thousand See Franks Body.
The arrival or tho body OF "Dago
rank iu The Bronx created only mild