The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-04-13

Especial 10 The Times Dispatch.1
Ossining, y. Y, April l2.--To morrow
morning before the rest of the country
will have shaken off Its heavy slum-
her, while yet the Hudson is quietly
rejecting the glory Of the rising sun,
the four New York gunmen will pay
tho penalty for the murder Of Herman
Rosenthal.
The condemned ganesters. notorl-
Gus now from coast TO coast and across
the Atlantic, spent their last day on
earth under circumstances that would
have crushed any man of Imagination
into rcasonless inertia. They heard
prayers for their souls soon to de-
part They bado farewell To the per-
sons supposed to he dearest to them.
They received from their lawyer G.
G.. + Wahle. the final blow to any
hopes they may have cherished Sc
cretly.
They heard the o'clock guards tell
their waiting wives, sisters, mothers
and fathers that the prison rules for
badc longer stay, and then without
being able SO much as TO touch tho
hands OF the sorrowing persons who
wept for them. they saw the heavy
blinds in front OF their cells drawn
for the last time.
Morbid ThronE Is Near.
On the brow OF the hill overlooking
the grim prison morbid thronG OF
men and women congregated, conjur-
Ing with the hideous thought that at
dawn three men In the full vigor OF
youthful health ana one man bent
under the ravages of tuberculosis are
TO be taken from the sunless cells and
deliberately hurled into the great blac.e
:nystery--death.
Here In Ossin!rG. mid the huge blue
PALISADES OF the Hudson, the vapor-
shrouded hills and the sleepy llttlo
v In tai,
a sordid tragedy of lawlessness. Here
in The centre of the glorious picture on
Easter sunday, the day OF regeneration
OF new hopes OF fresh desires, OF life
returned these four sullen gangsters
counted tho hours as they dropped ono
by one.
Whitley" Lewis is said to be break.
ing under the terrible strain. Tho
fervor CT prayer and song which now
Will be upon them until the end IS said
TO he telling in "Whitey's" case.
Uncanny Dlsinterest.
"Dago 'ran%.' with folded arms,
awaits death with uncanny disinterest.
Lefty Louie gangster and gun
fighter to the end, whincs his protests
of innocence between prayers, and
"tiyp the Blood" almost etherealized
bT the nevcr-ceasing eXhortntions OF
his spiritual advisers. is going to the
chair cNulting In a new found solacc
''1 am going before my Maker clean.''
said "Gyp.' II die innocent but happy.
am satisfied. ] am in the hands OF
God"
Before o'clock this morning pretty
Marie ctrohci. sister OF Frank. and
her aged mother climbed the rugged
hill to the prison.
Hope shonc still in the girls ewes.
They stayed with the condemned man.
ana with Father Cashin at their side
mnrtook OF Franks last communion.
ihcN iet'' Ike women who had seen
death ovcrtake them. Their faces wera
ashcn. their lips blue. their eyes swol
len The reporters declined to disturb
them, and doffed their hats 10 the sor-
row stricken old woman whose son
must die
Sisters Visit the Death House.
rms afternoon two franciscan sis
ters, who. when "Dago Frank" was
sturdy little Frank Cirofci. taught tho
boy TO read ana write, visited tho
death house. The two good women ar
rived with Father Cashin, and went
directly TO tho cell of the hoy whom
'heE strove 10 start Alright In life.
warden Clancy and Principal Keop-
or Mclncrny went with them and ne
,he word OF the warden. the heavy cur
tains IN front Of the cells were raised
phonograph was playing. and Alma
Gluck's wonderful voice was singing
Whispering Hope" and Frank, all
IN" music OF his warm Southern ma.
ture aroused, was listening enraptured..
Vhe final notes died away and Father
Cashin fell 10 his Knees. The good
sisters followed, and. then. one after
another. every man In the house OF
death knelt, except the armed guard.
standing l!ko an automaton at the mar.
row iron door that shut the men from
the world.
Warden Clancy and "P. K% Me-
Inerry knelt behind tie sistcr1. Tho
three bland faced China.pcn In the up-s
per tier llopped 30 cir knees, and In
the far end of tho short corridor, Hans