The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-13
CONDEMNED MEN AGAIN DECLARE THEIR INNOCENCE Gunmen Die Today at Dawn at Sing Sing for ROsen-
 thai Murder SEND FINAL MESSAGE TO BOYS ON EAST SIDE Yesterday One of Almost Continuous Prayer for ondemned-TOuching
 Scenes as Families Are
 Ridden Good-By

Ossinig. N. Y, April 12.-Harry Haro- witz, Louis Rosenberg, Frank Cirofici and Frank Seidenshner have spent their last day on earth As the gunmen whose picturesque aliases were flung across the continent after the murder of the New York gam bier, Herman Rosenthal, they die at dawn in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison, convicted of that murder.
 Again Declare Innocence
 To relatives who bade them good-by today and to their spiritual advisers the four condemned men again declared their innocence and as night settled down over the prison and the death watcn stood close about their cells there was nothing to indicate that they would not deny their guilt until the end.
 Which would go first to the chalr was a secret that only the warden knew It would depend. 1t was said, on the gun men's demeanor. He on whom the or deal bore heaviest whose nerves gave evidences of snapping would be first dis patched, thus to obviate a scene. Prison gossip has it that Lefty Louie" Q4oue Rosenberg was she most cratic of the four, and that he would march first to the chair. Others thought the first to die would be 'Dago Frank Crank CiroficD the Italian of the quartet. who has de- elared in statements to Governor Glynn and others that he was far from the scene of the murder when Rosenthal was shot down. James Clancy. warden of the prison, shook his head and turned away when the subject of the order of death was mentioned
 Spend Much of Day in Prayer
 This Easter Sunday and the night that follows was almost one continuous prayer for the condemned. They were on their knees most of the time that they were not talking with relatives. A prisoner in a distant Cell now and then biew from d battered cornet the quavering notes of Nearer My God to Thee" and in the death house proper a phonograph played sacred music. On the walks in front of the prison curious townspeople passed to and fro, whispering, and every now and then party of dusty automopilsts swung down from their car to survey the buildings. In the cut, jiNt under the prison caves. express trains roared past while wind out of the west whipped up white caps on the Hudson.
 Of the scenes in the death house corri- dors today, that which stood out boldest concerned the visit of two nunss As Father Cashn. the Roman Catholic prison chaplain, led the four gunmen Tn prayer. two Italian Franciscan Sisters who had come from New York to see VV...,. .1- Al. i. | in his boyhood, knelt outside his cell. Raised curtains, showing the cells bare and immaculate after yesterdays cleans ing, disclosed the four gunmen also kneel- 0g. Suddenly the spirit of devotion spread to the whole death chamber. Ev cry one of the 16 condemned, among them three Chinamen and Hans Schmidt, slayer of Anna Aumuler, joined in the Lord $ prayer. which concluded the services.
 The Franciscan sisters, black-robed and black-hooded, urged the four gunmon to accept their fate as punishment for their sins, whether they were innocent or guilty of murder.
 Issue Warning to Comrades
 To the boys of the East Side in New York the Jewish trio of the gunmen sent final message through Rabbi Jacob Goldstein. ''Whtey Lewis" wrote:
 There are many boys who are well piouSut up anu nave eOOu parents, NnO do not look out for the company they get into. Bad company is the cause of their fall. They get a bad record and then no matter whether guilty or not. they would be framed up.
 Keep away from bad company is the best message I can send"
 Lefty Loue said Add what I said the other day about bad company. A fel- low who honestl yearns s6 week IS bet ter off than he who gets 5000 week if he doesn't get it straight.
 We were supposed to have as many friends as any fellow that was on the East Side, but when 1t came to show down 1t was only the 'shool (synagogue) that stood by us outside of our parents. Stick to the 'shoor and to your parents. If had life to live over again, would surely follow this advice"
 "Gyp the Blood" said he had nothing to add to what had been said.
 Relative Visits Death Chamber
 Mrs. Rosenberg. Lefty Louie's young wife; Mrs. Horowitz, wife of 'Eyp she Blood;' MT. and Mrs. John Cirofc and Paul Cirofici, relatives of "Dago Frank; Morris and Joseph Seidenshner, brothers of ''Whitey Lewis,' all spent the early
 
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