The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-14
'''DAGO" FRANK
MADE CONFESSION
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urged him to tell the whole truth. He
hesitated and said: 7 don't want to
make any statement for the public. I
do not feaT for myself, but I do fear
"His sister replied: Don't have any
fear for us, we will take care OF our
selves, God will protect u.s.
His mother and sister continued to
urge him to tell the truth. He said:
7 did not do the shooting. The men
who fired the shots were Gyp. Louie
and Vallon.'
He said: T was ten miles away at
the time. So far as I know Becker
had nothing to do with this case. 1t
was q gamblers fight
He mentioned several raids on
gambling houses and said that the
story Shapiro told to Commissioners
Dougherty was true. He said: Il told
alibi for the rest Of the boys. The tes-
timony about the conversation with
Rose in the car on the way down was
not true. I was in Bridgey Webber's
when the arrangements were made. /
did not know just what the arrange
ments were. I knew something was
coming of. I did not see Louie pack
the trunk as I testified on the stand.
There were guns there, but not the
ones they used When asked how he
gained this information he said: Z
heard the boys talking about 1t since
I was here
THE conversation then related to
other matters but directly connected
with the Rosenthal murder. He ad-
patton in the preparations for the
murder but denied his presence when
the actual murder was committed"
According to MI. Clancy, practically
everything that Cirofici said after he
started to make his final statement
was voluntary. His defense OF. the
Becker case came absolutely without
suggestion fro many one, the warden
maintained.
Cirofci's statement was not wholly
unexpected. It was ,Tumored last
Thursday hat he might talk and this
caused the governor to send Mr.. Riley
to Sing Sing. The prisoner gave Mr..
Riley a statement which contradicted
the later one in some minor details,
ton than had been brought out previ-
ously. After making his statement to
Mr.. Clancy, Cirofici almost collapsed
and this was the cause Of h sudden
switch in the warden's plans which
sent 'Dago Frank to the chair first
instead of "Gyp the Blood.
At no time, according to the warden.
~ oAy VA " AAAA1 S~SOFN
insist that they were innocent Of kill
ing Rosenthal. "Whitey Lewis" al
ways declared that, he" did not fire a
shot and it ts the warden's opinion
that his dying words were: II didn't
shoot at R~osenthal,"
MI. Clancy said that "Dago Frank
and '"Whitey Lewis" always believed
that tfey were not as guilty of Staying
Rosenthal as were the men who fired
thes hots
incidentally, while Mr.. Clancy was
sitting in Mr.. Riley's Office last night.
the superintendent expressed the hope
that no man ever would pay the PEN
atty of death in the electric chair in
this state.
ST houe," he said, "to see the next
legislature lass a law permitting jur-
les to fix life penalty and that this re-
form will succeed in doing away with
| capital punishment"
! Warden. Clancy denied reports that
lie was on the verge Of a, nervous
breakdown owing to his experience
with the gunner. - H.. III. - -
! Governor Glynn was greatly inter-
| ested in the report Of the warden. but
he declined to make any comment.