New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-03
Glynn to Spare Lives for
Becker Trial, Counsel
Learns Unoffcially.
wFFTYLOUIE'S" WIFE
TO SEE GOVERNOR
DESPITE Good News, Plans 10
Present Petition in Person
Has About 10000 Names.

Word came Yesterday through unoricldi
cbanrels TO counsel for the four gunner
that Governor Glynn intended TO grant
a ninety-day reprieve to the cohuen''s'
men. II was explained that the Governor
had TO set a specific period oil uhe III
granting a reprieve, but II the NINETY
DAYS were not sufficient to bridge the sec
ond Becker trial. the time would prooap'S
be extended
Tho encouraging news was commuhi-
Gated to Mrs. Lillian Rosenbers' the con
rilsa wife Of Lefty Louie" and Mrs. LII
lion Horowitz. wife q "Gyp the Blood.
Mrs Rosenberg. however salu s"V
would take nothing for granted anu
would carry out her plan to go TO Albany
to-day and in person present TO the uo'
ernor an informal petition for a reprie'e
IN which she and friends or the coi'
demned men have obtained almost iV'VOV
SIGNATURES She said that she had aiso
written q letter 20 the Governor yestei :
day asking him to grant the repFieVe, anu
that her husband and the other III
prisoners had each written similar
ter 10 the Governor yesterday from '"'
death house. .... ..
Mrs Lefty Louie" took the petition 10
the office of Charles g. F. Wahie' III.
r,nmen's counsel, and proudly shower
some Of the names subscribed u !"
Among the early signers were Waiue"
lanes NJ Clancy OF Sing Sing frlsoH'
Iohn I Mallov. the warden's private seo
retarv. Father W. e. Cashin, the prison
chaplain. and Father James b. curry '"'
Tombs chaplain.
There were the names of keepers ana
prison guards who had come In contact
with the four prisoners in the lonios -
at Sing Sing. The bulk OF the suoSci ~
ers were from the East side
District Attorney Whitman said yester-
dav that he would make no further at
tenpt 10 have states witnesses lol '"'
second Becker trial identity the gunner
IN their cells. He asserted that it was the
usual way to proceed in such cases Out
as the gunner and their counsei ooJe'Veu
m II he would resort 10 the more Gil
cuitous method of calling court atIeiu
ants and prison keepers for the purpose
Of ,be Identification. The law OF evidence
ruI reo,I,re the identification of the gum
mon at the second Becker trial III oruei
70 prove the actual killing OF Rosehthai'
Mr. Wahle visited the gunner yester-
dav He said that he protested to war
den Clancy against the recent EFFORTS Vi
the states eyewitnesses. Shapiro anu
1<rause to identify the prisoners III
their cells He said that "Dago FRANK
Ciro6ci who occupies a cell commanding
q f,ul view Of the door entering l"e
death house told him that Shapiro had
manor in his hands TO which he referred
n.hor he came in 20 see them. Cironci as
summed that It was a diagram OF theH
coils md their location. and protested on
that account. he told his counsel
Mr. Wahle described some OF the peeu-
,,ar decorations which the gunner have
IN theIr cells. Two condemned Chlhatne"'
who are in the death house, recently CON
s,ructed q large Chinese basket py
n,ecing together bits Of varied-coioreu
naper and presented it to 'Dago FRANK
Tho basket hangs in Cirofcfs CELL AND
he considers it talisman, his counsei
said.
"T ATTY Louie" has paper banjo on the
u,all of his cell which Maurice ~ bus'ie'
u.ho was in the death house under SEN
teerce for poisoning his wife, but AFTER
,.ard obtained a new trial, made Tor nm
The instrument is made of cigarette