Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1914-04-16
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PAY DEATH PENALTY
-Four Men E|ectrocuted at the
Sing Sing Prison.

= Ossining, N. Y, April 14.-Tze four
Sgunmen convicted of the murder OF
Herman Rosenthal, the New York
|sity gambler, were executed in Sing
Sing prison.
1t was just thirty.nine minutes from
the time the first shock was given
'"Dago Frank" Cirofici the first to die
until Lefty Louie Rosenberg, the
Hast of the four, was pronounced dead.
Whitley Lewis" Jacob Seiden.
sohner) was the only one Of the gun.
mon to make a statement in the
deathhouse and none made confes.
sion. Seidenschner declared the wit.
rnssses against him had perjured
themselves and swore he was not
guilty. He was the second man exc.
outed.
"Gyp the Blood" Harry Horowitz)
was the third. He went to his death
terror stricken and apparently on the
verge of collapse.
"Dago Frank" was pronounced dead
at 5:44, Whitley Lewis at 5:52,
X"Gyp the Blood" at 6:O3 and Lefty
Louie" at 6:17. It required four
shocks to kill Lefty LOUIE" two were
Isuficient for the others.
Father Cashin, the Catholic chap.
lain of Sing Sing, walked to the death
chair with "Dago Frank" Rabbi
CGoldstein was with each of the three
Jews.
seidsnschner Asserts Innocence.
Whitley Lewis" last word was a
denial of his guilt. He was calm and
fully aware of all that was going on
about him. He stepped into the death
chamber, preceded by Rabbi Gold.
stein. Before taking his place in the
chair he said:
Gentlemen, I want to say for the
sake of justice the witnesses who
swore against me 'perjured them.
sselves. swear before God that ]
did not shoot Rosenthal."
>seidenschner died hard, his body
lconvulsively jumping as the current
WAS applied. 49,.
"Gyp the Blood" Horowitz seemed
pAralyzed with fear when he was
strapped to the chair. His eyes pro.
ltruded. Two shocks were given him.
Lefty LOUIE" the last, died hard.
est. The preceding had been given
two shocks each, but four were neces.
sary before Rosenberg was pro.
nounced dead.
In addition to the two ministers.
Father Cashin and Rabbi Goldstein
Ana assistants, twelve men were in
the chamber at each execution.
Rosenthal Killed for "squeaIins."
Herman Rosenthal was murdered
at 2 a. m. July 16, 1912. He had been
furnishing District Attorney Whit.
man with evidence of police grating
(which connected Police Lieutenant
Becker with gamblers. He had been
warned to hold his tongue"
While dining at the Metropole, To-
cated Just of Broadway on West For
U.second street, he was called to the
pavement by q man never identified.
Al he stepped to the curb he was shot
through the brain.
The murderers calmly walked to a
waiting automobile and rode OF to-
ward Fifth avenue.
A policeman recorded a fictitious
number of the car. A bystander took
the license number and was arrested
when he gave 1t to the police of the
Forty-seventh street station. Only
the fact that District Attorney Whit.
man took immediate personal charge
Of the case saved this man and his
memory of the car number to the
prosecution. 1t was this slender
thread of evidence from which Whit
man traced the real slayers.
Informed Becker Of killing.
1t was subsequently learned that
Becker received word Of the shooting
from Jack Rose, Becker's stoolpigeon,
by phone. The police lieutenant i'm
modiately rushed from his apart
msnts uptown to reassure the men
who had engineered the shooting. 1t
was also learned that Becker, In an
automobile, had passed the Metropole
- few minutes before Rosenthal was
killed.
Up to the very last 'Dago Frank"
.'0yp the Blood" Lefty Louie" and
whitley Lewis asserted their inno-
oense. Becker was tried before they
were. They were confident Becker
would not be convicted. When he
was, however, they did not lose hope.
Chicago, April 14.-Ollie Malni,
4ourteen.year-old boy, faces q charge