New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-28


Tain IN our hearts that the awful thing
is not going 10 be done 10 them-eVer'
How, long does the Governor wait before
he sends word about the reprieve?
She was told II depended on when the
application was made.
But they won't do it-they won
have the boys die" Mrs Rosenberg SAID
and she raised her right hand to her
face you know the Governor won
allow that. and the public won't stand
for such a thing Wouldn't it be terrible
for the public and the Governor TO ma
out that the boys weren't TO blame? Ana
what could be done then to make up for
killing the boys?
Wives Getting Up Petitions.
"1 know lots of people feel Just that
way about it, Mrs. HOrowttz and are
getting up a petition signed by big peo-
rle for Governor Glynn 10 spare the lives
Of the gunmen"-she used that word sew
eral times-"until Becker's new trlaI Is
finished. We are going to get $50 names
We have twenty-one now.
II can't give you their names now;
wait until the petition is filled And
when we get all the names well either
send up the petition to the Governor or
take II up ourselves and make the Gov
ernor understand just how terrible II
will be for him TO let the boys be killed
without knowing whether they're inno-
cent or guilty.
That electric chair is fearful thing
and when I think OF how horrible X ls
- can't help shuddering. and l try TO
think Of something else. And II guilty
men suffer and so almost crazy waiting
J and waiting IN that awful death house
for the keeper 10 come along and say
get ready Just try TO think how ter
rible II is 10 innocent men who can't do
anything. can't do a thing, to make the
public understand that they're innocent,
and htey have 10 go in there and die.
They have to go in there and die as
they were told they'd have 10 die, and as
they had 10 prepare for. for long weeks
and months. But the people won't let
the boys die that way; the public VIII
demand that they be given q chance until
the Becker verdict comes in.
II Becker is eNlltltu 10 u ctNOlaN NAAo',
why don't the gunner get it? Can't hey
arrest WALTON and make him tell the
truth? Can't they make him confess that
he shot Roscnthal? And II he does con-
fess don't wish him that awful death
in the electric chair I don't like him,
but wouldn't wish anybody that.
Sure Boys Will Go Free.
Why. II the boys were guilty Mrs.
Horowitz and 7 would 90 up TO the Gov
ernor and ask him to give the boys
life sentence. he wouldn't make them go
10 the chair. Just think OF our husbands
being up there and the real murderers
being free and not having 10 worry
about death"
But they're not going 10 die, Lillian"
said Mrs. HOrowtz. 1T isn't going 10
turn cut that way. Pretty soon it's GO
Ing 10 be found out by everybody that
the gunner didn't do 1t. and then they're
going 70 be free I'm so hopeful Of that
I'm not even thinking about the date.
The boys are not worrying. They know
everything will be all right."
"Oh. they're so hopeful" Mrs. ROsen-
berg said. turning TO the reporter. why,
% YOU know, when | was up there last
week and sat in front Of Louie cell and
thought about IL all I cried. and Louie
cheered me UP and told me TO stop cry
Ing. because the horrible thing wasn't
going 70 be He cheered me up more
than I cheered him, guess. but couldn't
help feeling bad. sitting In that quiet.
awful place. four feet away from him
and not able 10 touch him even. And
that's what makes us so hopeful. even
moro than their innocence, for innocent
men can be killed as well as the guilty.
We are doing Just everything We can
70 save them. When the pictures Of Val
Jon and Weber and Schepps were frst
Pot on az Hammerstein's we went there
because we expected 20 hear a lot Of talk
about the case.
In the seat IN back OF us were two
men. We heard one OF the men say 20 the
other. The gunner didn't do IT,. Charley
told me no was there and that he knew
the gunner didn't shoot Rosenthal.' We
Turned around and asked the men 10 tell
US who Charley was. because we wanted
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lie wouldn't want TO be dragged into the
case. and then they LEFT the theatre. And
NOSE men didn't think a BIT about the
io9r men dying just because another man
amt want 20 yet mixed up in the case.
Say Whitman is Honest.
Think " those fellows. WALTON and ,he
others earning money in moving pictures.
ana the ooys In the death house. Why.
even In the pictures Jack Rose was the
s2uealer.' You could see II the first
'hlng Perhaps WALTON and Weber will
nave conscienccs some day Resell never
nave conscience.
Some people may think we're sore on
whitman. We haven't a BIT Of feeling
against him. He's an honest man and no
Mas paid 10 do what he 40. And I'd have
none tho same thing II vas paid for II.
~, he ought 10 try 10 find out the truth
aDolt tho murder. You'd be surprised II
you knew who some Of the people were
Woe'ye written letters to the boys wish