Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-04-21
|GUNMAN CONFESSES
sLAYERS OF RoSENTHAL PAY
PENALTY FOR CRIME IN
SING SING PRISON.
LAST PLEA DENIED BY GoFF
Murders Are Led to instrument of
Death One at Time, "Dago Frank"
Being the First One to Be Elec.
trocuted.

Albany, n Y, April ia few min
utes before the execution of 'Dago
Frank" Cirofici, who was the first of
the four gunner to go to the death
chair in Sing Sing prison, he told
Warden Clancy that "Gyp the Blood
Horowitz, Lefty Louie" Rosenberg
and Harry Vallon, an informer, fired
the shots which killed Herman Rosen-
thai, for which crime the four gunner
paid their lives.
80 far as know, Becker had moth
ing to do with this case" the gunman
also declared. 1t was gamblers
fight" Cirofici averred he was five
miles away at the time the crime was
committed, and that Whitley Lewis"
Seidenshner, although present at the
scene of the shooting, did not fire any
of the shots.
Ossining, n. Y, April 14.-Without
making any confession, the four young
New York gunner" condemned for
the murder of Herman Rosenthal,
were electrocuted in Sing Sing prison
MONDAY morning.
The victims and the time of their
execution were as follows:
Frank Cfrofici, alias "Dago Frank"
5:38 to 5:44.
Jacob Seidenschner, alias Frank
Muller" and Whitley Lewis" 5:4S to
1853.
Harry Horowitz, alias "Gyp the
Blood" 5:57 to 6:O2
Louis Rosenberg, alias Lefty
Louie" COS to GIT.
Seidenschner was the only member
of the quartet to make statement
After being strapped in the death
chair he began to deny his guilt but
the electric current was turned on in
the middle of his speech and he died
with the words upon his lips.
The quadruple execution passed OFF
without hitch, all the condemned
men being buoyed up with the spir-
itual consolation which was admins
tered continually during the closing
hours of their lives. Cirofici went
to the chair with crucifix In each
hand shouting prayers and chanting
over and over again: God have
mercy!"
Mrs. Mary Cirofici, mother of ''Dago
Frank who has led the fight in be-
half Of her son and the other con-
demned men, arrived at the prison
few hours before the executions,
after having made a final but futile
plea to Governor Glynn at Albany for
executive clemency.
New York, April 1.-THE last hope
of the four gunner was blasted Sat
urday. Supreme Court Justice John
w. Golf, to whom final appeal for
new trial had been made, declined
to reopen the case.
The four products of the Manhattan
East side, who paid the penalty of
their crime Monday, were convicted
on November 10, 1912, of firing the
shots which killed Herman Rosenthal
as he stepped from the Hotel Metro
pole into Forty-third street.
Rosenthal had caused the gambling
world of the Metropolis to quake with
terror by his conference with the dis
trict attorney, Charles S. Whitman.
His promised confessions were a
sequel to gambling war, in which
the other underworld interests had
tried to drive him from the fat field
of the upper tenderloin. Bomb out
RACES Staying and assaults had
marked this conflict. Believing he
was to be deserted by Charles Becker,
police lieutenant in charge of a
strong arm squad" and partner in
the Rosenthal gambling house the
desperate man was now about TO ex-
pose the whole illegal conspiracy of
police and crime.
The gambler was sitting in the Met
ropole about two o'clock in the morn
ing of July 16, 1912 A man entered
and asked him to come outside. Lurk-
ing in the shadows were "Bridgey"
Weber, BALD Jack" Rose and Harry
Vallon Near by stood a motor car
with engine running. The policemen
supposed to be on station near by had
been lured away
In the glare of bright lights and
within 100 feet of Times square four
young men shot Rosenthal to death
and leaped into the motor car. A fifth
man also entered, it is said by some,
and urged the driver onward by hold
ing a revolver to his head and strik-
ing him. TIE ear disappeared in the
direction of Fifth avenue