New Britain herald., 1914-04-09
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 WILL CONFESS ALL
beckcf'S Counsel to Ct Statements
 From Convicted Cunm6n.
ClYNN DENIES RABDIS' APPEAL

Families and Counsel of Condemned
 Men Have Not Abandoned All Hope
 to Save Their Lives-Me'norand'nn
 Sent to Governor.
 New York, April 9.--There wore persistent rumors today to the effect that at least one of the four gun men who are to die at Sing Sing Mon day morning for the part played in the murder of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, would confess. The rumors could not be traced to their source.
 Joseph A. Shay, counsel for Charles Becker, the former police lieutenant convicted for instigating the murder. but saved by higher court ruling. said he might go to. the prison some time today and endeavor to get statements from the four men to be used by the defense at the second trial of Becker. In case the condemned men decline to make statements to him, he has prepared an application to the su- preme court for an order requiring the appointment of commission to take their depositions. Tn either event, it was said, the execution of the sentence would not be delayed.
 Hope Not Abandoned.
 Although Governor Glynn has twice refused to grant a reprieve, the fam flies of the gunmen and their couE- sel, Charles G. F. Wahle, had not given up all hope today. Every means known to the law will be employed from now until Monday Wahle de- clared. Today he will send @ mem orandum to Governor Glynn on the latter's refusal to grant a reprieve. The memorandum will take the form of an argument in answer to the gov ernor's reasons for his refusal.
 The rumors regarding the expected confession had 1t that the one gunman most likely to talk was "Gyp the Blood" Horowitz
 Appeal Is Denied.
 An impassioned and dramatic ap- peal made by five Jewish clergymen Of New York for a stay of the. execu-s ton was denied by Governor Glynn late yesterday. N
 The plea was made in the executive chamber and was based on the pos- sibility of new evidence developing In the second trial of former Police Lieutenant Becker. It so complete ly unnerved the governor that he had to retire to his private office for a time before he could continue his duties.
 That was the most difficult ex- perience of my life," he said later.
 It originally was planned that the mother. brother and sister of "Whitey Lewis' Seidenshner and the sister and the mother of "Dago Frank Cirof1ci should accompany the clergymen and plead for execu- tive interference. This plan was not carried out, however, as the clergy men declined to permit the govern or to be submitted to the ordeal of conversing with relatives of the condemned men.
 Glynn Is Nervous.
 The clergymen, ali officers or members of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, were accompanied by Fl. Lionel Kringle. one of the attorneys for the gunmen. He did not appeal to the governor but each of the clergymen was permitted to talk. The governor, meanwhile, stood nervously twitching his watch chain. His face was drawn and white. At times he interrupted the speakers to say that the evidence before him did not warrant a change of his decision not to grant the pris- 01
 eff 1t were my heart alone that was considering this case,'' he said, you know what I would do. I have spent many sleepless nights because realized that l alone stood be- tween these boys and death. But I have made up my mind. It was a choice between sentiment and justice and I had to side with justice. would have given every cent I pos- sess not to have had to pass upon this case finally. But 1t was my duty, and I have performed that duty as I saw it.
 ''Dago Frank" Not There.
 Rabbi Jacob Goldstein, chaplain or the Tombs and of Sing Sing, who has known the men intimately since their incarceration. asserted that "the three Jewish boys have told me in all solemnity that Frank Ciro- flci was not there at the time of the shooting. .
 The records show Mr. Gold stein continued. that forty-flve minutes after the shooting Cirofici was In 8 neighboring police court bailing out his sweetheart Would any criminal with blood on his hands have the audacity to invade a station house so soon after commit ting crime?''
 The governors only reply was that he must erst on the evidence of the