The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-04-14
STATEMENT BY
WHITLEY LEWIS"
81 DID NOT SHOOT AT ROSEN.
THAL," HE WAS HEARD
TO MUMBLE.
'DAGO FRANK" FIRST TO GO
1t Took Exactly Forty Minutes to
Execute the Four Men Convicted
of the Murder of Rosenthal.

Sing Sing, Ossining, N. Y. April 13.
The four men convicted OF the
murder of Herman Rosenthal died in
the electric chair at Sing Sing prison
at the break of dawn this morning.
None confessed his guilt, and none
mentioned the name of Charles Beck
er, former police lieutenant( who was
found guilty of instigating the muir
der, but who was saved by a court
of appeals reversal.
Of the four who died. Frank Seiden-
shue c'Whitey Lewis') made the only
statement.
81 Did Not Shoot" Says Whitley"
Gentlemen" he mumbled as they
strapped him in th> hair Il did not
shoot at Rosenthal Them who said
! did was perjurers. F. the sake of
justice, gentlemen, | say | didn't. The
witness Stannish--"
Whitley did not finish the sen.
tence. The strange harness had been
adjusted, and the current shot his
body forward in the chair. What he
meant to say was that Stannish, the
waiter, and witness at the trial, had
lied, but death had interviewed.
"Dago Frank" Dies First.
Seidenshue was the second to die,
Dago Frank" Crank Cirofici came
first. 'Gyp the Blood" (Harrv Haro-
witz) was third. Lefty Louie" (Lou-
Is Rosenberg was last.
In forty minutes flat all four were
dispatched. There was no untoward
incident during the procedure. All
walked quietly to the chair and only
their queaking knees and the sickly
green pallor of their faces attested
the realization that death was upon
them.
Each Has scriptural Adviser.
William e. Cashin, the Roman
Catholic chaplain of the prison ac-
companied "Dago Frank" to the chair.
With Whitley Lewis" and "Gyp the
Blood" was Rabbi Joseph Goldstein.
or New York. Rabbi Meyer Kopp-
stein, long the spiritual adviser OF
the Rosenberg family, stood by Lefty
Louie" The priest and rabbis avert
ed their drawn faces, struggling to
control themselves as they intoned
prayers for the dying.
An anaemic moon still hung In the
sky ,when those who were to wit
ness the executions gathered in front
OF the prison. The air was chill, and
raw wind swept across the Hudson,
Faint lights glimmered at the corri-
dor ends of the buildings, but no
sound came from within.
Shows Signs of Collapse.
Dawn was just creeping over the
hills when the witnesses were adj
mitted to the death house. Then "Da-
go Frank came through the little
iron door. He had shown signs of
collap<ng and IT was expedient to
shield him from the ordeal OF wait
ing.
State Electrician Davis carefully
tested the electric current, as "Dago
Frank" clutching a cruciix in each
hand, and supported by two keepers,
was led into the presence Of death.
In the death cells could be heard the
murmur of the other condemned men
in supplications.
10 God, | Meet My God"
20 God, | meet my Cod" gasped
Dago Frank in Italian, and he was
dead. At SAB the body was lifted
from the chair.
Warden Clancy said "Dago Frank"
had intended making a statement, but
his mental processes had failed him.
Whitley Lewis entered next, and
with the statement he never finished
on his lips, he was declared dead It
5:52.
"Gyp the Blood" entered with d
Hebrew prayer book in his hand, and
mumbled: Listen, Israel, there is on
" one Cod in Hebrew, as the cur
rent was applied. He was dead at
6:O2.
Like "Gyp," Lefty Louie" the last