Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-04-15
It MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY: THOU {
1UTH OARoLINA WEDNESDAY ArRn Is, 1o14.
THE FOUR N. Y. GUNMEN DIE.
40 Minutes All Had Passed
from Earthly Existence.


died in the electric chair at Sing Sing
at the break OF dawn this morning.
None confessed his guilt, and none
mentioned the name of Chas. Becker,
former police lieutenant, found gull
ty OF instigating the murder, but was
saved by the Court of Appeals rever-
sal.
or the four who died, Frank Seid-
enShner, (Whitey Lewis), made the
only statement. Gentlemen" he
mumbled as they strapped him in the
chair, Il did not shoot at Rosenthal.
Them who said did was perjurers.
| For the sake of justice, gentlemen i
say | didn't. The witness Stannish
Whitley" didn't finish the SEN
tence. Strange harness had been ad-
| lusted and the current shot his body
forward in the chair He meant to
say Stannish, a waiter witness at the
trial, had lied. But death inter
vened.
Seidenshner was the second to die.
"Dago Frank" Frark Cirofici) came
first. "Gyp the Blood" (Harry Horo-
witz) third, Lefty Louie Uouis
Rosenberg) last.
In forty minutes fiat all four had
heeh electrocuted. There was no un-
toward incident during procedure
All walked quietly to the chair. Only
their quaking knees and the siCkiy
green pallor of their faces attested
to the realization that death was
upon them.
VIM. Cashn, Roman Catholic
chaplain OF the prison, accompanied
'Dago Frank" to the chair. With
Whitley Lewis" and "Gyp the
Blood was Rabbi JOS. Goldstein, of
New York. Rabbi Meyer Kopfstein.
long the spiritual adviser Of the Ros-
enberg family stood by Lefty
Louie The priest and rabbi, with
averted, drawn faces, struggled to
control themselves as they 'intoned
prayer for the dying.
A Reported Confession.
Albany, April 13.-Some Of the
gunmen are believed here to have
confessed before they were executed
at Sing Sing this morning. Superin-
lStepdent&sI hns b r leySs @ lsa@S tate.
Prison Department, said to-day state
ments would arrive here from Ossin-
ing to-day which would show that
mo injustice had been done by the
executions" though he said he knew
nothing of the nature OF these state
ments. The statement is declared to
implicate no one but the men who
paid the penalty to-day.
Governor Glynn refused to discuss
it, although it is known it's contents
had been known to him. He has de-
clared he was satisfied the gunmen
were guilty. No word is forthcom-
ing whether the confession" was
made by all or one Of the condemned
men. The report persists that it was
'DaSo Frank" who confessed. This
statement was given by Warden
CLANCY voluntarily at O'Clock this
morning.
Cirofici Makes Confession.
Albany, N. Y, April 13.-Shortly
before "Dago Frank" Cirofici went to
the death chair in Sing Sing prison
early to-day he told Warden Clancy
that "Gyp the Blood" HorowitZ,
Lefty Louie" Rosenberg and Harry
Vallon, an informer, fired the shots
which killed Herman Rosenthal., for
which crime the four gunmen paid
with their lives. $50 far as / know
Becker had nothing to do with the
case,' the gunman also declared. at
was a gamblers fight" Cirofici
aVerred he was five miles away at
the time the crime was committed
and that Whitley Lewis" Seidensh-
ner, although present at the scene of
the shooting, did not fire any of the
shots. Cirofici made no attempt.
however, to deny that he was in
cluded in the original plot to slay
Rosenthal, even admitting that two
nights before the gambler was slain
he went with other gangsters to look
for their intended victim. They were
frightened away from Rosenthal on
that occasion. The condemned man
also admitted that early on the night
OF the actual killing he was in the
gray murder car" with the gunmen.
but he insisted that he left them be-
fore they shot the gambler He did
not explain precisely why he left the
other gunmen Just prior to the shoot
ing, but two reasons are advanced.
One is that he became frightened
and the other that he deserted in or
der to bail out his sweetheart, Jean
Gordon, who had been arrested,
Mother Caused IT..
The statement, which was made
orally in the principal keepers Office
about a. m. to-day, was the result
OF the insistent plea on the part of
Cirofici's mother and his sister for
the truth. They had been here and
made an unsuccessful appeal to the
Governor to save the prisoners life.
Returning to the prison near dawn
they were met by the warden and
taken to the office, where they. met
Ciroltci.