The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-13
WIVES BID GUNNER COOLEY.
One. Frantic with Grief, Tries to
Tear Down bars.


OssrNISG. April 10 CMonday) The
four gunner will go to their deaths in
the electric chair for the murder OF Her
man Rosenthal at 5:45 this morning. IN
all human probability.
For Harry Horowitz. Louis Rosenberg
and Jacob Seidenshner (Gyp the Blood,
Lefty Louie and Whitley Lewis) there is
absolutely no hope. Fer Frank Cirofci
tDago Frank there is one chance In
ten thousand.
Dago FrarSS's mother will arrive AZ the
prison at o'clock this morning and she
Will give her boy the one last chance. II
he truthfuly can say that he can confess
that which will have an important bear
Ing on any other case--Be ckeT's or any
other--he may not go to the electric
chair with the three men. but there must
be no doubt of what he says or that 1t
can be corroborated.
An attempt was made 10y some one In
the prison to-day to prevent the execution
of the men by putting the dynamo at
tached to tho electric chair out OF COM
mission. During Saturday night some one,
believed to have been a second timer,
entered the electric power house. and
with a wrench and other tools ruined the
new machinery. This fact was learned
when the electricians made their inspec-
ton of the machinery.
New Dynamo" Is Connected.
The warden was aroused at once and
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which sent IA man 10 the prison This
man simply connected another dynamo
with the electric chair. Tests showed
that it was effective This dynamo was
tested last night and is all right
The power house is In a building back
OF the death house and has nest of
dynamos which supply light for the
prison.
Electrician Davis. the state execu-
toner, chose new high powered machine
when he was here ON saturday and made
his resistance tests on that When he
left the guards about thu house We're
doubled. but tho same crew was put in
to work Some one that could go in with
them did the work.
Three of the gunner at least had no
hope when the last day began yesterday
morning They accepted atefullI the word
that Lawyers Wahle and krtngel were
going To Albany to imercede FOR them
but they could not believe there would
be any chance.
AS to the fourth. Dago Frank, there
was another situation. His mother and
sister were to 20 to Albany with some
sort OF proposal they had obtained from
him Yesterday. lie brok" with the other
thr,. SATURDAY night when he failed TO
ioin in with statement, lie still re-
manned aloof yesterday.
The gunner awakened easly Yesterday
morning. They ate heartily of hounteous
breakfact and made ready for what they
all said was the hardest ordeal of all their
experiences-the good-bys
They were braced for this by the early
visit OF Father Cashn. who prayed with
all OF them and later returned to give
Cirofici communion. The men then prayed
among themselves and later the visitors
were announced
Relatives Say GOOd-by.
For Whitley Lewis there were his two
brothers. Morris and Joseph. For Giro
fici there were his brothers John and
Paul, and his sister-in-iaw, Mrs, Paul
Then. upon their heels, came the wives
OF Lefty Louie and Gyp the Blood. The
Young women. very soberly attired, kept
M bravely until they entered the death
house Then they gave way 10 their
emotions. Instead OF comforting. they
were comforted by their husbands behind
the bars
One OF them became so hysterical that
she endcavored to tear down the steel
grating which separated her from the
cell door The two women remained an
hour As they came forth they were
weeping violently. They left at once.
Morris Scidenshner said his brother
was resigned to his fate,
HE told me-" he said. that as " was