The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-14
|CUNMAN'S GRIEF BOWED OLD -.
] MOTHER is CHIEF SUFFERER
Four Who Died in Death Chair
Began in Crime as Children
4 in Street.

When men make war their women have
to bear the bt,;nt of 1t, and tho woman
who has had me hardest time ay a result
Of the kllinS ~ i,ostnthal Is the mother
OF Dago Franz Choici. who confessed. and
who was. according to HIS lawyer. 'the pity
and conundrum OF the four" During the
past few weeks sne has been huHled by
her daughter from Albany TO Sing Sing,
back to the lawyers Office in Manhattan.
up to see the Governor again. appealing.
imporins and arguing. 1t didn't seem as
If she could unde stand that her boy. hor
Frank. for whom she had worried so hard
In bringing him up, could do murder.
Each lime she appeared at the office OF
c. q. +. Wahle. lawyer 10: the four. her
small bent frame seemed - have shrun,;
and her face seemed = h.te,. Toward the
end she seemed Seaumbed by .hc s!tus-
ton and could ~. understand the busting
OF the lawyers, of her daughter Marie. ana
| the feverish excitement as each new nope
was born.
She is the widow OF tailor 10 whom
she was married In Ita.y. She and her
husband came to America and settled n
the r,g,on OF Mulberry Bend Her hus-
band dlcd when Frank was boy. leaving
the small widow 10 struggle of the support
o, Fran.s and two sisters.
she Is an Episcopalian and carefully
raised her children In the Episcopal Church
OF san Salvatore. Her daughter Joined
! the Girls Friendly Society. Frank sang In
! the choir and the mother worked hard
| all week to cloths and feed her young
| sters.
! She gave up outside work years ago
, when Frank was working as a copy boy
! for the New York News Bureau and her
I two daughters had Jobs with mercantile
houses where they promised to do well.
The four CHIEF figures in the execution
Yesterday were not made Tnurderers In "a
/ day. All Of them. like DaSo Frank. had
| hard working. respectable >parents and
/ their Gcscents. into crime were gradual.
| Winthrop d Lane In an article In the
| surrey a. magazine which makes Its APP
! peal to soc!ologi.ts. charity workers and
! phllanthropis;s, deals with this phase os
I their development He makes no deduc-
/ tons from the COURSE of crime followed
| by the four. but simply states the facts
| and asks the reader 10 ansNe. these Ques-
| tons:
| Has the philosophy of lettering crime
! anything 10 do with the causes OF crime.
| or il IS enough to go ON removing the nm
ished criminal shall ". attack the proc
| esses of making laworeakers. or shall
we he content to endow tn. electric chair
with Immortality"
Drawn ny Gang Life Glitter.
Dago Frank worked for the New Yori,
| News Bureau when he left school carry
ing market slips around to brokers' offices
from, when he was Is years to when ne
was ~ years old. Then he quit because
of gang associations formed outside of
| working hours. The glitter OF life OF
| crime had attracted him.
In 1906. when he was 22 years old. he
was arrested FOR carrying concealed
| weapons. His own story OF this Is that
i've was standing on the corner when "A
man asked him to mold a bundle. In -
few minutes Frank discovered that he
was holding a slungshot and revolver.
4 He was arrested Immediately.
Frank was found guilty and sent to
t.lrira for fourteen months, when lie was
paroled In seven months he was as
charged from parole After this he had
several jobs. none NJ which he held long.
How steadily he worked and what he DID
with his spare time are questions his
family cannot answer.
Through associations he formed In FL
mira ne became an acquisition OF the JACK
Zeiig gang and grssdually began TO par
ticpate In the gang crimes. attacks on
gambling houses. illegal resorts and
saloons.
Lefty Louie Had Watchfui Father
Lefty Louie was born at II Sunoh
street. in the heart of New iorks con
gested lower Fast Side. At that time his
father kept a bakery and grocery at u
Suffolk street and the family had to i've
carefully TO make both ends meet, The
father. with strict views on religion. wat
a stern disciplinarian.
81 do not know" he said after his son
conviction. what you call bad. SOM
|, people say that II II boy doesn't steal o
I hn tom
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