The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-14
Mrs. Cirofici, Now Prostrat- ed, Will Have Sons Last
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WARDEN DENIES HE
 TRIED TO AID. BECKER
vallon's Lawyer Holds Con fession Cannot Be Used
 Tn Court of Law

New York, April, 14-'eDago Frank, Cirofici's confession was today de- nounced as part of a plot to free ex- Lieutenant Charles Becker. who will in three weeks face trial for a second time for the murder of Herman Ros- enthal.
 Charging that the last statement. wrung from the gunman by Warden Clancy. was inspired to becloud the peoples case the Attorney for Harry vallon.. named as one of the actual murderers. declared it could not be considered as legal evidence Bernard H. Lander, yallon,s law yer. said she had expected such a staternentF ever since Becker left Sing Sing.
 CLANCY IS INDIGNANT. Warden Clancy today veKenently clear Becker. He reported to Cover nor GIynn that Cirofici was kept from telling his story sooner by a solemn oath which the four gunmen had made to band together. in their fight for respite uEtn after the trial of Becker. Frank feared to break this pact. Even in the death house he was still under the domination of the other gunmen.
 After reading that it was charged that the "Dago Frank confession might be intended to help Becker, Warden Clancy said today:
 'I am frank to say T do not see any more connection Ibetweeu Becker and the gunmen than Eetween sunrise and sunset. don't believe sWhitey. Lewis or Dago Frank fired shot at RosenthaI although I do believe they participated in the plot to nur- der hi1rl.s of- course that made theve guilty
 WITNESSES ARE AFRAID.
 While Harry vaIlon is said by his attorney to be unafraid. this attitude was not shared by other men who had been involved in the RosenthaI case
 ..Bridgie'' webDer. who. with vaI1on and Bald lack Rose, turned in. former, has disappeared from Pas sEaic, where he had been working in. a box factory
 Sam, Eagason, keep of a Seventh avenue poolroom. who was accused of first tipping the police to the hiding place of three of the gunmen, has like wise vanished. after being threatened with death by gangmen.
 Reports from Albany today show that the executive mansion is still guarded. Detectives follow the Gov ernor wherever he goes.
 GANGSTERS' FUNERALS TO-DAY.
 While morbid thousands blocked streets and. struggled for hours to catch glimpse of the faces of tswhitey Lewis,'' s.Dago Frank and 'sGyp the Blood.'' the parents Of Lefty Louie'' quietly and secretly preparedfto bury their dead.
 Not an ink1ing of where the funeral would be held. or when,s or where the body would rest. was given out by the grief stricken family. Even his widow has not yet seen the body. At her home, No. 2s6 Grand street, to- day she said she did not know who the undertaken was, but thought that the body was in the Bronx. The widow said she signed paper per r1itting her husbands folks to take charge of the funeral arrangements.
 MOTHER WILL SPEAK.
 As a seeming endless line of men and women, mostly women. passed by the coffin of Frank Cfrof1ci his mother was prostrated in her home, worn out by her long. futile struggle and heart broken over the fate of her boy.
 Thorugh her daughter she an nounced that as soon as her condition permitted she would give to the pub lie the true confession made by her son before his death, spoken to her alone, in her native Italian She will also tell all else that Frank said. Warden Clancys version of which has already been given out.