The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-13
DID NOT KNOW LIEUT.. BECKER WAS CONCERNED Full Confession, Signed Before Death, On Way to
 Gov. Glynn.. FOUR GUNMEN SILENT IN PRISON DEATH HOUSE Bodies of Dead Men Will Be Claimed For Burial By
 Their Friends.


 That Herman Rosenthal. gamb- l Ter, was killed by Harry Horo- Witz, Louis Rosenberg and Harry Vallon, and that these men did not know, until after the shooting, that Police Lieut.. Charles Becker was concerned in the killing, is the reported substance of B. confession which Dago Frank Cirofici, one of the four gunmen electrocut- ed this morning for the mlr- der, is declared to have signed before he was half led, half
 carried, to the electric chair in a state of collapse.
 Just what. effect the comics
 sion, which is said to be on it's Iway to Governor Glynn, will
 have on the second trial of Becker is not known and those Iconcerned will not talk until it has been made public in fulL. F The confession is said to
 have been made in the pres
 ence of Warden Clancy and
 Father Gashin sDago Frank" reiterated his previous state ment that he was present at the
 shooting of Rosenthal Albany, April 13-Some of
 the gunmen are believed to
 have confessed before they
 died. Superintendent John B.
 Riley, of the state prison de- partment, said today that state
 ments would arrive here from 0ssining today which would sshow no injustice had been
 done by the executions. :" l He knew nothing of the na- ture of the statement, which is declared to impieate no one but the men who died today. No word was forthcoming as to whether the confession was demned men. It was given to
 Warden Clancy about 4 o'clock this morning. No promises were made to the writer, it is
 said, but, in the last hours on earth, there was voluntary change in the attitude of some Of the condemned.
 The report that the state ment came from Cirofici was strengthened by remark made by Superintendent Riley:
 s'The men had the same Op- portunity to make this state ment when I was down to Sing Sing last week., 7 he said, but
 they did not choose to avail themselves of it.
 l. MT. Riley said he would is- lsue 8 formal statement as soon
 as the messenger arrives. He l knows. in the main, what the communication contains. he said, but he desires to make 1t public in full.
 Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N. r.. April 1S-The four gunTnen convicted i of the murder of Herman Rosenthal, died in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison as dawn broke this Easter Monday morning. None confessed his guilt and none mentioned the name of Charles Becker, the former police lieu tenant, found guilty of instigating the murder but saved by the action of the court of appeals in ordering new trial.
 1 Of the four who died, Frank Seiden- sinner e.eWhitey Lewis''o made the only statement. l "Gentlemen," he mumbled, as they strapped him in the chair, ''I did not shoot Rosenthal Them who said did was perjurers. For the sake of Justice, gentlemen, I say I didn't. The witness Stannish-''
 l .fWhitey,'' did not finish the sen tence. The straps had been adjusted i and the shock shot his body forward I in the chair It is thought he had meant to say that Stannisf, a. waiter and a, witness at the murder trial, had 1 lied but death intervened. l Seidens7ner was the second man to die. 'fDago Frank Crank Cirifcf) Ieame first. "Gyp the Blood (Harry 1 iHorowitz) was third and Lefty l Louie douis Rosenberg) last. l DAGO FRANK FIRST VICTIM l In forty minutes all four were dead. TThere was no uazroWard incident