Las Vegas optic., 1914-04-11
DECISTUN COMING TONIGHT
JUDGE GoFF WILL MAKE RULING
AND GOVERNOR MAY GRANT
A REPRlEvE
WITNESSES TO The ALlBl
SEVERAL PERSONS TESTIFY THAT
THEY SAW lNFoRMERs AT
SCENE OF TIE CRIME

New York, April 11.-Counsel for
the four gunmen doomed to die at
Sing Sing prison Monday for the MUIR
der Of Herman RosenthaI, made a fin
81 plea for their clients before Su-
preme Court Justice John w. Goff to-
day. The justice, who had sat at the
trial, agreed last night to this eleY-
enth hour procedure on the represen-
tation Of counsel tnar new evidence
had been discovered tending to show
that the prisoners were not the real
murderers. District Attorney Whit
man, rushing here from Chicago, ap-
peared to oppose the motion for a
new trial.
The hearing was set for noon in
the judges chamber, Dut was trans
ferred at the last moment to the SUI
preme court proper. There was some
delay in starting. Charles G. F.
Wahle, chief Of counsel for the pris-
.oners. said that seven new affidapits
had been obtained, but that the sign
ers of only three OF them would be-
called IN q
all sorts and conditions Of persons.
had volunteered various bits of evil
dence: that counsel had run down
many of these stories only to find a.
majority false.
The proceedings were interrupted
here when Judge Goff ordered a young
man who delivered note to him
stopped before he could leave the
room. The man was placed on the
witness stand. He said he was Gus
tave Beck and that he had come toll
the court to deliver a note to e. B. M.
Browne, a rabbi who has been work
ing in the gunmens behalf The note
had been handed to him in the hall of
the court house, he explained. That
was all he knew about it.
Rabbi Browne, on the stand, said
that he had been working in the gun
mems behalf at the requesc Of several
Jewish societies He disclaimed all
knowledge Of the mysterious note the
young man had delivered, and it's con
tests were not made public at the
1.-THE. The rabbi read it, but 1t said
bfiiy a'It is a secret
Carl Dresner, a bartender and sign
er-of an affidavit, stating that he had
seen the now notorious informers,
Jack Rose (Bridgeyl Webber, Harry
Vallon and others speeding away IN
the automobile from the scene Of the
Rosenthal murder. was called to the
stand The indications were that the.
hearing would be protracted and per-
haps stretching into a night session.
Dresner said that on the morning Of
July 49, 1912, he was standing at Fif-
tieth street and Seventh avenue from
O'Clock until shortly before 2 a. N.
This was three days before tho nlET-
der He said lie saw Rose, Webbsr
and Vallon in front Of q cafe and
heard Rose urge Webber and yalIon
to ''put it over" on Rosenthal when
the latter emerged nom the place
with his wife. smH
Coming down to the time Of the
murder, Dresner swore that he was
standing on the steps Of the Elks'
club, which is diagonally across the
street from the Hotel Metropole, when
he heard shots, anO rnen a gray tar
raced by him through Forty-third
street. Sam Schepps was on the run
ming board and in the car he saw
"Bridgey' Webber, Harry WALTON and
Shapiro. Two other men were in the
car, said the witness, but they were
not any Of the gunmen now in Sing
Sing. He said he told Policeman
James Kelley what he knew during
the week Becker was convicted