The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-04-13

OSSINING, N. Y, Apr. 13.-With
the bravadO which they have shown al
ways since their arrest on charge
of numbering Gambler Herman ROsen-
thai on the morning Of July Is, 1912,
the four gunmen, convicted with P0-
lice Lieutenant Charles Becker, who
now awaits new trial, Harry H0r-
Owitz, alias "Gip the Blood" Frank
Cir0fici alias 'DagO Frank" Frank
Seidenchiner alias "Whitey Lewis"
and Louis Rosenberg alias "Lefty
Louie" were eIectrOcuted at Sing Sing
prison this morning.
The gunmen went to their death
respectively at 5:3S, 5:48, 5:57 and
sos. The first died in six minutes,
the second in four minutes, the third
in five minutes and the fourth in nine
minutes. None of the men confessed.
Whitley Lewis" was the only one who
made a statement. Awaiting his turn
In the death chair he said: Gentle
men, / want to say a few words for
the sake of justice. Those witnesses
who swore they saw me shoot Rosen
thai were perjurers. | swear by God
1 didn't shoot him." The bodies were
turned over to relatives.
nAS OOlu puuTutIs
The murder of Herman Rosenthal,
the gambler who, "squealed, prob
ably was the most cold blooded in its
conception and the most carelessly
and contemptuously carried out of
any in all the sordid and sensational
criminal history of Greater New York.
Police Lieutenant Charles Becker,
leader of New York's "strong arm
SQUAD" was convicted, previous to the
gunmen, of first degree murder as in
stigator of the crime, and sentenced
to death. For over year he sat
in a cell on the life side" of the
little green door, which leads to the
death chair and the beyond. Then he
was granted new trial by the court
of appeals on technical grounds. He !
is now in the Tombs.
Many Sent to Jail.
Besides the five convictions men
toned, four police inspectors, one
several patrolmen, were sent to the [
penitentiary, following Investigations
of graft conditions revealed at the
murder trial. Dennis Sweeney, John
]. Murtha. James e. Hussey, and Jas.
were convicted of grating and served
4 year at Blackwell's. Three days be-
fore their terms were up, Murtha's
was reversed by the ap-
oelIate division, which upheld the con-
,iction of the others.
ROsenthal a Victim.
Herman Rosenthal was murdered
If Q a. m. on the morning of July 16,
.912, He had been furnishing District
Attorney Whitman with evidence of ;
)olice grating which connected
Becker with gamblers. He had been t
,eyeral times warned to hold his t
ongue." While dining at the Met
opole located just off Broadway on {
Vest 42d street, he was called to the
,avement by man never identified. {
IS he stepped to the curb he was S
hot through the brain The mdrders
almly walked to awaiting automobile t
nd rode off toward Fifth avenue. A a
oliceman recorded a fictitious num-
er of the car. A bystander who f
ad witnessed the shooting, took the {
icense number, and was arrested F
yhen he gave it to the police of the
7th street station. Only the fact that F
district Attorney Whitman got out
t bed to assume immediate personal
barge of the case, saved this man and
is memory of the car number to the "
rosecution. 1t was this slender 4
lread of evidence from which Whit G
ian traced the real slayers, and built D
p his case. q
How Becker Received Word. n
1t was subsequently learned that "
ecker received word of the shooting i
ON Jack Rose, Becker's stool pigeon, !.
Y phone, and that the police lieuten- IS ls
1T Immediately rushed from his N
oartments uptown to reassure the ~ ~
en- who had engineered the shoot :, -
e. IT was also learned that Becker, " ~
an automobile, had passed the ~
etropole few minutes before Rosen- la
al was killed. y,
Asserted Their Innocence.
Up to the very last "Dago Frank"
syp the Blood" Lefty Louie" and Sc
Whitley Lewis" asserted their in de
,cence. Becker was tried before il
ey were. They were confident hs
ecker would not be convicted. When ar
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