Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-13
GUN M EN- DIE
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GUNMEN DIE
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prison caves, express trains roared
past while a wind from the west
| whipped up white caps on the Hud-
son.
Scenes in Corridors
OF the scenes in the prison corridors
that which stood out boldest concern
ed the visit of two nuns. AS Father
Cashin. the Roman Catholic prison
chaplain, led the four gunner in
prayer, two Italian Franciscan Sis
ters who had come from New York to
see "Dago Frank" whom they had
| taught in his boyhood, knelt outside
his cell. Raised curtains showing the
cells Dare disclosed the four gunner
also kneeling. Suddenly the spirit of
devotion spread to the whole death
chamber Everyone of the Is con-
demned, among them three Cinnamon
and Hans Schmidt slayer of Anna
AumHller, Joined in the Lords Prayer,
which concluded the services.
The Franciscan Sisters, black-robed
! and black-hooded, urged the four men
10 accept their fate as punishment for
their sins, whether they were innocent
or guilty of murder. They told the
doomed men that their community
would offer special prayer for them
from 1 to 6 in the morning.
Message to East Side
To the boys of the East Side in New
York the Jewish trio of the gunner
sent a final message through Rabbi
Jacob Goldstein. Whitley Lewis
wrote: There are many boys who are
we'll brought up and have good par
ents, who 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 Louie" said: Add what 1
said the other day about bad COM
pany. A fellow who honestly earns Sc
a week is better off than he who gets
$1,000 a week if he does not get it
straight.
we were supposed to have as many
friends as any fellows that was on
the East Side, but when it came to
showdown it was only the School
(Synagogue) that stood by us, out
side of our parents. Stick to the
| Shoot and to your parents. If 1 had
life to live over again 1 would surely
follow this advice"
"Gyp the Blood said he had moth
ing to add to what had been said.
Mrs. Rosenberg Lefty Louie's"
blond young wife; Mrs. HorowitZ, wife
of ''Gyp the Blood" Mr.. and Mrs.
John Cirofci and Paul Cirofici, rela-
tives of "Dago Frank" Morris and
Joseph Seidenshner, brothers of
Whitley Lewis" all passed the early
part of the afternoon in a last visit
to the death chamber. The women
walled aloud as they went out of the
prison and could not compose them
selves sufficiently to speak. On the way
to the station, they said that the men
about to die had never maintained
their innocence so strongly as in this
last remonstrance. They were calm
and resigned, and it was the gunner
who played the part of CONSIDERS.
II must die some time," Lefty
Louie" told his wife; 'if it pleases
God that / die now, / am ready"
Whitley Lewis" asked his brother
to tell their mother that she was not
the mother of murderer. 81 have
never been more than little wild"
he said.
Near the railroad station, a photog-
rapher, who tried to take a picture of
the weeping wives of "Gyp" and
! Lefty Louie" was set upon by the
Seidenshner brothers. Morris and joe
He was knocked down and pursued in
TO a small restaurant, where he bar
ricaded himself and saved his cam
| era
The prisoners were not left alone for
a single instant during the day or night
Until the moment of the electrocution
they will be under the observation of DR..
! Farr and DIR. Mereeno. the prison ply
sicians, in addition to the guards. At 8
o'clock in the morning the final prayers
will be said. Father Chasin will kneel
with "Dago Frank" and receive his final
confession. The rabbis, Goldstein and
Kopfestein, will prepare the other gun
men for the end. s
The condemned mems last word from
their chief counsel, c. G. F. Wahle, came
| in the form of telegram from Albany
telling of the governors final refusal ia
intercede. 1t was shortly after six when
this message reached the prison.
"Grieved to inform YOU" 1t said
'-nat the governor has refused to inter-