The Sentinel=record., 1914-04-14
ClROFlCl WAS NOT AT THE SCENE
Four Gunmen Meet Death at Daybreak and ''Whitey Lewis" Makes Incoherent State ment as He is Strapped in the Chair-Others Remain Silent

| to urge him to tell the truth He said l did not do the shooting. The men who fired the shots were Gyp, Louis and Vollon."
 He said, I was five miles away at the time. So far as 1 know, Becker had nothing to do with this case. It was a gamblers fight He mentioned several raids on gambling houses and said that the story Shapiro told to Commissioner Dousherty was true. He said, I told some lies on the stand to prove an alibi for the rest of the boys. The testimony about the conversation with Rose in the car on the way down was not true. l was in Bridgey Weber's when the arrange ments were made. l did not know just what the arrangements were. l knew something was coming off. l did not see Louie pack the trunk as testified on the stand There were guns there but not the ones they used
 When asked how he gained this information, he said:
 q heard the boys talking about it since l was here.'
 "The conversation then related to other matters not directly connected with the Rosenthal murder. He ad- mitted his knowledge of and partici- patton in the preparations for the murder but denied his presense when the actual murder was com mitted."
 According to Mir Clancy, practical ly everything that Cirofici said after he started to make his final state ment was voluntary His defense of Becker came absolutely without sug- gestion from anyone, the warden maintained.
 Cirofic's statement was not wholly unexpected. It was rumored late Thursday that he might talk and this caused the governor to send Mir. Riley to Sing Sing, The prisoner gave Mir. Riley a statement which contradicted the latter one in some minor details, but it contained little more information than had been pre- yiously brought out After making his statement to Mr. Clancy. Cirofici almost collapsed, and this was the ' if a waIden's plans which sent "Daso Frank" to the chair first instead of "Gyp the Blood"
 At no time, according to the war den. did any of the gunmen except Cirofici tell him they were innocent of the crime of killing Rosenthal. "Whitey Lewis always declared he did not fire a shot, and it is the warden's opinion that his dying words were, "I didn't shoot at ROsenthal.'
 Mir Clancy said that "Dago Frank V and "Whitey Lewis" always believed that they were not as guilty of slay- ing Rosenthal as were the men who | fired the shots.
 Incidentally, while Mir. Clancy was sitting in Mir. Riley's office tonight, the superintendent expressed the hope that no other man would pay the penalty of death in the electric chair in this state.
 'T hope" he said, "to see the next Iegislature pass a law permitting iuries to fix a life penalty and that this reform will succeed in doing away with capital punishment"
 Warden Clancy denied reports that he was Ion the verge of a nerv' ous breakdown owing to his experl ence with the gunmen.
 Governor Glynn was greatly inter ested in the report of the warden but 1 he declined to make any comment on
 the case.
 Both Mir. Riley and Clancy eX
 nressed the opinion that nothing con
 tained in Cirofioi's statement wouic
 have any effect on the second tria
 of former police lieutenant, Charles
 Becker. Mir. Clancy said that the