The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-23
Four, Who Will Die Week Of
April 13, Proclaim Their
Innocence.
HAVE REVIEWED DECISION
Three Swear They Saw WALTON
and Weber Shoot Herman
ROscnthal.

prison the four young men who are
sentenced to die during the week OF April
10 for the murder Of Herman Rosenthal
sent out yesterday a final appeal to the
public for aid.
They worked upon It until 4 o'clock yes
terday morning. each OF them making sug-
gestions to Lefty Louie. Then they signed
It and sent II to town yesterday by their
counsel. Charles @. F. wahle.
Lefty has always been the brains OF the
crowd and their review OF the decision
Of the Court OF Appeals il in his labored
hand There Is no word OF bathos In It.
Since they entered the death house each
OF them has had transcript OF the testi
mony taken at their trial and that OF
Lieut.. Charles Becker.
Their copies are thumb worn and these
men. who never looked at n book from the
time they left school. could give you pages
and folio numbers on every bit OF the
testimony. Their appeal is the expression
of their view OF the legal points at issue.
Cant Understand Opinion.
I'VE have the records OF our case" says
Lefty. land now that we have the copy Of
Appeals We cannot understand 1t, We are
cannot realize"
They say they cannot understand how
the Court of Appeals could sustain their
conviction on the testimony OF Rose, Web
Der. Schepps and WALTON when the con-
vction OF Lieut.. Becker was set aside on
! the ground that these four men were un-
believable. Pointing out that 1t was
/ claimed these four men conspired with
| Becker to employ men TO kill Rosenthal
Z the gunner say:
Now how could they be employed by
the same four who the Court OF Appeals
states were unbelievable? still II IL
claimed in our opinion Schepps, one OF the
unbelievables. came to our apartments at
252s Seventh avenue early In the morning
OF the murder and the boys said how
about the money and claims later on
Frank and l received a package contain
/ ing 81, 0Oo. and here is "A letter taken from
the record that he wrote to J. Rose show
/ ing the beginning OF the 1000 framed
motive. on page i53. folio 1855"
Then follows a copy OF the letter written
by Schepps to Rose in which Schepps says
ne finds himself in very bad regardless OF
/ the prom ~ OF lenency held out to him.
and says to Rose: $50 why do you want
me TO corroborate a few lies, for instance
such as paid the $1,000"
score Luban's Testimony.
Without ending the quoted letter the
appeal branches OFF to n consd, ration of
the Identification made OF the fonr gun
men in cour, by Luban. who was unable
TO pick out the men by name. although ne
swore that for n year and half he had
known them well.
Concluding the appeal Louie says
You will find in the records Harry
Horowitz CGyp The Blood). Jacob
Seidenshner tWhitey Lewis) and swore
We seen Harry WALTON Rrdeey webber
and this stranger shoot, this is the God
truth so help me God that we are in
tnocent"
Cirofci. called Dago Frank. IL no. men
toned as having testified that he saw
WALTON and Wehber shoot. He and the
other gunner have steadily maintained
tina, Dago Frank was Nd there a, the
time of the shooting and II Is true that he
was not positively Identified. Ciroaci APP
ponds to the general appeal a statemen,
of his own to proclaim his innocence
Lefty Louir's Appeal.
In part the statement OF the four men
as written by Lefty Louie. follows:
TO the Public:
II write this in behalf OF Frank Cir.
ofci, Harry Horowitz and Jacob Seiden
sinner and myself No doubt YOU hav,
heard so much about the four confessed
Rosenthal murderers. ex-Polce Lieutenant
Charles Becker and the four gunner tina
the public feel they are in possession o
all the facts. We have stood In silence
for n long while all sorts of abuse an,
calumny was heapei upon us. For tn,
sake Of justice to ourselves and all VIII,
had confidence in ms We feel Il is oui
duty TO make "A statement.
THE fifteen months we spent In tn.
death house before We heard the verdic
Of the lower court was sustained was Al
cheerful as could he under the crcum
stances. We were so confident of "A re
versal that We had our dear wives anC
families to have our clothes and homes
prepared ready for the home coming
When the news OF the verdict was brough
In to MS We could not believe II. becaus,
we knew that Becker's verdict was re
versed by the highest court and Il wa,
the same witnesses that testified agains
him at his trial had testified against us a
our trial.
"In the opinion OF our case the Cour'
OF Appeals states Kreuse Identified Franz
on pages 1912, The record shows III
never Identified Frank. This In the KIND
Of evidence that sent us to the chair"
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