The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-04-22
four GUNMEN DIE
NEW YORK .MURDERERS PAY
PENALTY FOR CRIME.
ONE Tells OF Staying

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| Electric Chair and Sent to Their
Doom-Warden Relates Confession
Made Before Him.
The four gunner convicted Of the
murder of Herman Rosenthal died in
the electric chair at Sing Sing prison,
near Ossining, n. Y, at the break Of
dawn this Easter Monday morning.
In the death chair none confessed
his guilt and none mentioned the
name of Charles Becker, the former
police lieutenant found guilty Of in
stigating the murder but saved by
the court Of appeals reversal. OF the
four Frank Seidenshner ("Whitey
Lewis") made the only statement.
Even he did not fatty assert his inno-
cence.
Gentlemen" he mumbled, as they
strapped him in the chair, II did not
shoot at Rosenthal. Them who said
I did was perjurers. For the sake Of
justice, gentlemen, say I did not.
The witness Stannish-" Whitley
did not fnsh the sentence. The
strange harness had been adjusted
and the current threw his body for
ward in the chair. He had meant to
say that Stannish, waiter and a
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 tho third and Lefty
Louie) Louis Rosenberg last. In
40 minutes all four we're dispatched.
This would have been shortened had
it not been for the overcrowding Of
newspaper reporters. Their numbers
necessitated a shifting Of witnesses
for each execution. All four men
walked quietly to the chair and only
their quaking knees and the sickly
green pallor Of their faces attested
that the realization of death was upon
them.
Shortly before "Dago Frank" Giro
fici went to the death chair he told
Warden Clancy that "Gyp the Blood"
Horowitz, Lefty Louie" Rosenberg
and Harry Vallon, an informer, fred
the shots which killed Herman Ros-
enthal, for which crime the four gun
men paid with their lives. $50 far
as know Becker had nothing to do
with the case" the gunman also de-
clared. 1T was a gamblers fight"
! Cirofci averred he was five miles
away at the time the crime was COM
mitted and that Whitley" Lewis Seid-
; enshner, although present at the
scene of the shooting. did not fire any
Of the shots. Ciroflci made no at
tempt, however, to deny that he was
included in the original plot to slay
Rosenthal, even admitting that two
; nights before the gambler was slain
he went with other gangsters to look
for their intended victim.
They were frightened away from
Rosenthal on that occasion. The con-
demned man also admitted that early
. on the night Of the actual killing he
was in the gray murder car" with
the gunner, but he insisted that he
left them before they shot the gam
bier. He did not explain precisely
why he left the other gunner Just
prior to the shooting, but two rea-
sons are advanced. One is that he
became frightened and the other that
he deserted in order to bail out his
sweetheart, Jean Gordon, who had
: been arrested.
The statement which was made
orally in the principal keepers Office
was the result Of the insistent plea
on the part of Corifci's mother and
his sister for the truth. They had
been here and made an unsuccessful
appeal to the governor to save the
prisoners life. Returning to the
prison near dawn they were met by
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where they met Cirofci.
Mr.. Clancy told his story to Super
intendent John 3. Riley of the State
prison department and Gov. Glynn.
The warden first issued formal
statement rehearsing a part Of what
Cirof1ci told him and later added de-
tails which included Cirofici's admis-
sion that he and the other gangsters
had sought Rosenthal nights before
the Staying. The formal statement
Of the warden follows:
about 8 o'clock Sunda.- night
Rosenberg asked me to save Frank,
saying he had nothing to do with the
shooting; he was not there. I went
over and asked Frank why he did not
tell the truth. He replied that he
knew what was going on, but was
not there when the shooting took
place. I advised him to tell the whole
story. He said if he did they would
kill his brother. I asked whom he
meant by they. He replied that
there were so men in New York he
could name. He said: I don't care
about myself, it's my family I care
for
sI caused Frank Cirofci's to be
brought from the condemned cell
= house to the principal keepers Office
about 4 o'clock Monday morning. He
made the following, among other
: statements, in the presence Of myself,
McInery, principal keeper, the chap
: lain, his mother and his sister. They
urged him to tell the whole truth.
He hesitated and said:
"I don't want to make any state
ment for the public. I do not fear
for myself, but I do fear for you
His sister replied: Don't have
any fear for US; we will take care Of