New Britain herald., 1914-04-08
CUNMEN'S PETITION
 DENIED BY GLYNN
Governor Says Stay Of Execution Would Be M SCaIriage of Justice.

Albany, N. Y., April Ex-Governor Glynn last night refused to either com mute the death sentence of the four gunmen who were convicted of slay- ing Herman Rosenthal or to grant them reprieve until after the second trial of former Police Lieutenant Charles Becker. They now must die by electrocution in Sing Sing pri- son some time next week, probably Monday. The court of appeals, in denying their motion for new trial. set the week of April 13 as the time for their execution. The exact date is fixed by the warden to suit the con- venience of himself and his assis- tants.
 It would have been a miscarriage of justice to have granted commu- tation and an improper exercise of. executive power to have granted q -reprieve, the governor said in state ment. The case of the four gunmen does not depend in the least on the result of the Becker case, he contin- ued, and no evidence has been off, fered him tending to show that there is any reasonable probability of any thing developing in the second Becker trial which would change the result reached in the gunmen's cases.
 The full names and nick names of the condemned men are:
 Frank Cirofici ("Dago Frankly.
 Harry Horowitz ("Gyp the Blood").
 Louis Rosenberg ("Lefty Louie").
 Jacob Seidenshner ("Whitey Lew is'D.
 Whitman for Execution.
 Included in the governors statement were the text of letters he received from Supreme Court Justice Golf and District Attorney Whitman, who acted in the case Both men strongly op- posed the granting of reprieve. Tho district attorney declared that Ito de- lay or prevent the execution of the Judgment of the law against them would, in my opinion, tend to destroy the sense of security which every law abiding citizen should feel.' The jus tice declared there was no doubt as to the prisoners guilt.
 T have carefully reviewed the rec- ord of the trial, and the opinions written in the court of appeals or the aff1rmance of the judgment of conviction in this case" the governor said, "and am unable to discover any reason that would justify the granting of reprieve.
 The judgment of conviction of these defendants was unanimously af- f1rmed by the court of appeals. Judge Ehase, in writing the principal opin- lon of that court, makes an ex- [ haustive review of the evidence. The court found no error had been com- mitted in. the trial that the defend ants had a fair trial and that there was nothing 'in t6e case at alE to require or to justify a new trial. Judge Chase. distinguished 7 the cases of these men, from the Becker case and in this connection says: - The important issues in this case are entirely different from the issues in the Becker case
 Identified By Four.
 Judge Miller, who strongly as- sailed the verdict in the Becker case, concurred in the opinion of Judge ] Chase in this case and called par 1 ticular attention to the evidence which 1 shows that four witnesses in addition 1, to those in the Becker case positively identified one or more of these de- fendants as participants in the shoot ing of Rosenthal: that three of these defendants were confessedly at the scene of the murder, and that the story that the fourth was not there at the time was extremely difficult to believe and that the flight and con- cealment of the defendants after the commission of the crime, together with the evidence in the case, left no I doubt in his mind as to their guilt" 1 How Justice Golf Saw It.