The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-04-17
No Confessions Made.

No Confessions Made.
To relatives who babe them good
bye and to their spiritual advisers the.
four conder ned men again declared
their innocence and there is nothing
to indicate that they did not deny
their guilt unit, the end.
Which went first to the chair was
a secret that only the warden knew.
1t was to depend, it was said, upon
their demeanor. He upon whom the
ordeal bore the heaviest, whose nerves
gave evidence of swapping, would be
first despatched. thus to obyiate a
scene.
James Clancy. warden OF the prison,
rigidly observing conventions sur
rounding even electrocuticns, shook
his head and turned away when tho
subject of the order of death was men
toned.
"Nearer My God to Thee"
Easter Sunday and the night that
followed was almost one continuous
prayer for the condemned. They were
Oh their knees practically all of the
time that they were not talking with
relatives. A prisoner in a distant cell
now n then blew from a battered
cornet the Q%uayering notes OF Nearer
My God to Thee" and in the death
house proper a photograph played
sacred music.
On the board walks in front OF the
prison he curious townspeople passed
to and fro, whispering, and every now
and then q party OF city AUTOMOBILE
lists swung from their car to survey
the buildings.
In the cut. just under the prison
caves, express trains roared past
while a wind out of the west whipped
UP whitecaps On the Hudson.
Or the scenes in the death house
corridors that which stood ont bold
est concerned the visit of two nuns.
AS Father Cashin, the Roman Catho-
lie prison chaplain, led the four gun
men in prayer, two Italian Franciscan
sisters, who had come from New York
to see Dago Frank, whom they had
taught in his b~oyhood, knelt outside
his cell.
Raised curtains, showing the cells
bare and immaculate. disclosed the
four gunner also kneeling. Sudden
ly the spirit of devotion spread to the
whole death chamber. Every che OF
the 16 condemned, among them three
Cinnamon and Hans Schmidt. SLAYER
or Anna Aumullcr, joined in the Lords
prayer.
Last Messages Sent.
To the boys of the East Side in
New York the Jewish trio OF the gun
men sent a final message through
Rabbi Jacob Goldstein.
Whitley Lewis" wrote: keep.
away from bad company, is the best
message | can send"
Lefty Louis said: Add what I
said the other day about bad com.
pany. A fellow who honestly earns
Sc a week is better off thar he who
gets $1,000 a week. if he does not get
it straight"
Il must die some time" Lefty
Louie" told his wife. IF it pleases
o0u eA0I ! ulc HOW, ] am ready.
Whitley Lewis" asked his brother
to tell their mother that she was not
the mother OF a murderer.
i have never been more than a lit
tie Wild" he said.
The prisoners were not left alone
for a single instant during the day
or night.
At 3 o'clock the final prayers were
said. Father Cashin knelt with
"Dago Frank and received his final
confession. The rabbis, Goldstein
and Kopkstein, prepared the other
gunner for the end.
umor persist here that "Dago,
Frank Cirofci had made a confes.
sion. These rumors were discredfted
At the prison, however, and the mid.
night visit Of Chaplain Cashin to
"Dago Franks" cell was without de-.
velOpment.