New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-06
fail TO SHAKE
GUNNER BY PLEAS
Relatives Visit Death House
in Search of New
Evidence.
DOOMED MEN ACCUSE
WEBER AND WALTON
Sisters Sobs and Fathers Prayers
Do Not Change Stories In
ROsentIal Case.

District Attorney Whitman devoted the
greater part Of yesterday afternoon list
enInr to a rehearsal OF the evidence or
three Of the four gunner in the Becker
case who are now in the Sing Sing death
house, as told By Lefty Louies' father'
Jacob Rosenberg "Gyp the Blood s
father Michael Horowitz. and Miss Maria
Cirovici. sister OF "Dago' Frank. The
relatives assured the District Attorney
that despite their pleadinss with the con-
demned men they were utterly unable TO
secure from them a single change In the
testimony they had originally given In the
courts. They still accuse BRIDGE Web
her and Harry Vallon of the murder OF
Herman Rosenthal.
Charles G. +. Wahle. attorney for the
sunmen a week ago agreed to the plead
lnCs of the relatives Of the gunner and
arranged with the keeper OF the death
house that they. In the presence or some
prison official, should be granted conn
Dental interview with each OF the doomed
men. Saturday little Miss Clrovici Inter
viewed her brother, "Dago' Frank, the
gunman, in corridor Of the death house
of Sing sing prison. She had not seen
him for some time.
Mr. Wahle told the newspaper reporters
In. the Criminal Courts Building yester-
day that the girl in rapid Italian hyster-
ically pleaded with her brother TO tell her
the whole truth about his connection with
Becker and the murder Of the gambler
But he asserted that he could not change
his testimony because he had spoken
truthfully at the trial.
And so It was with Jacob Rosenberg
and his son. Lefty Louie" on Monday,
and with Michael Horowitz and his boy
who became known as "Gyp the Blood y
Each father spent much time pleading
with the convicted men not TO shield any
one. And the fathers told both Mr.
WahIe and District Attorney Whitman
that their pleadings had been In vain
After the relatives Of the three gunner
had returned to New York and reported
to Mr. Wahle what the young men had
told them, the lawyer checked UP their
stories and the stories told by the gun
men previously and found them 10 be UNI
changed.
The relatives met in Mr.. Whltman's Of
fee yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Wahle said
that "Gyp the Blood" told his father.
whose wife is seriously i'll:
Father, want 10 see my mother.
She's Ill. But I won't change my testi-
mony, even TO leave the death house"
Mr.. Whitman" continued Mr.. Wahle,
didn't know that had sent those people
up 10 see the boys In the death house. ="
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for a postponement of the death sentence
the lawyer said that he thought they had
every chance Of a postponement for a
while He said that he would ask for an
extension following the retrial OF Becker.
Both Joseph A Shay, counsel for
Charles Becker. and Bernard II. Sander.
counsel for WALTON and Schepps, declared
Yesterday afternoon that they had moth
ing to say"
Yesterday afternoon District Attorney
Whitman had served on Rachel Brown.
former partner OF BRIDGE" Weber a
John Doe warrant TO appear before him.
Tho District Attorney closely questioned
Brown, but said nothing about what he
learned from him.
Brown is a saloon keeper, and yester-
day morning engaged in a brawl with
Edward G. Cohen, who has drug store
at No. 1875 Broadway. Blows were struck.
The men were taken 10 the West Side
court. where Brown was fined $40
II is said that each accused the other
OF various things, among them being the
accusation that Cohen was a stool pigeon
for the District Attorneys office.