The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-04-17
MEET DEATH IN SING SING
AlI Four Gunmen Go to Fatal Chair
With CaImneSS-But One State
ment.

April 13.-The four guamen convict
Cd of the murder of Herman Rosen-
hal died in the electric caair at Sing
Sing prison at the break OF dawn
this Easter Monday morning. In the
dea h chair none confessed his guilt
and none mentioned the name Of
Charles Becker, the former police
lieutenant found guilty OF instigaing
The murder but saved by the court OF
appeals reversal. OF tie four Frank
Seidensher ('.Whi:ey Lewis made
The only stat -ement. Even ne did not
datly asset his innocence.
Gentlemen, he mumbled as they
strapped him in the chair, Il did
not shoe, at Rosenthal Them who
said l did was perjurers. For the
sake of justice, gentlemen, l say l
did not. The witness Stannish-'
Whitley" did not finish the SEN
Gel-ce. The strange harness had been
adjusted and the current threw his
body forward in the chair He had
meant to say that stannish, waiter
and witness at the murder trial,
had lied; but death intervened,
Seidenshner was the second man to
die. "Dago Frank Crank Cirofci)
came first. "Gyp the Blood" Harry
Horowitz) was the third and Lefty
Louie" Oouis Rosenberg last.
In 40 minutes all four were dis
patched. This would have been short
ened had it not been for the over
crowding Of newspaper reporters.
Their numbers necessitated shifting
OF witnesses for each execution.
All four men walked quietly
% the chair and only their quaking
knees and the sickly green pallor
of their faces attested that the real
ization of death was upon them.
William E. Cashin, Roman Catholic
chaplain of the prison, accompanied
"Dago Frank" to the chair. With
Whitley Lewis and "Gyp the Blood
was Rabbi Joseph Golds.ein Of New
York. Rabbi Mayor Kopfstein, long
the spiritual adviser of the Rosen-
berg family, stood by Lefty Louie"
"Gentlemen,' said Rabbi Goldstein
as he left the death chamber, "if you
ask me whether the Jewish boys were
guilty, I will say do no, know. They
did not confess to me. AS for the
Italian, l do not believe he was at
the scene Of the crime. do not think
any of them should have been convict
ed on the testimony offered
Dawn was breaking over the hills
when the witnesses were admitted to
the bare court yard of the dea.h
house Warden Clancy had announc-
ed that "Gyp the Blood" would die
frs, followed by Lefty Louie, "
"Dago Frank and ''Whitey Lewis, y
but as it transpired the man who
first came through the little iron door
at the right was "Dago Frank" He
mad shown signs of collapsing and it
was deemed expendient to shield him
from the ordeal of waiting.
State Electrician Davis carefully
tested the electric current.
1.-TWO OF these men have told me
that they will make statement" an
nounced Warden Clancey, "but under
no circumstances must any one ask
them any questions
The head and leg sponges were then
wet and Headkeeper McInery, act
ing on signal from the warden,
went to the death cell. There he
round Cirofci in prayer with Father
Casnin. The condemned man clutch
ed crucifx in each hand as he was
led into the presence of death. He
had to be supported by two keepers.
His limp body was strapped in the
chair.
"Oh, God I meet my God" grasped
the Italian The State electrician
Eurned the switch.
DR.. Farr and DR.. Meremo, with
several other witnessing doctors, ap-
piled the ste1hoscope.
pronounce this man dead >
Whispered DR.. Farr 1t was 5:43
, o'clock. The group of witnesses left
the death chamber and the body of
''Dago Frank" was removed to the
autopsy room.
A new lot of Witnesses filed in.
Then through the little door came
"'W1itey Lewis" The statement that
he never finished was on his lips as