The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-11
Gunmen's Last Hopes Cen tered Tn Story of New
 Witness to Shooting BILLIARD EXPERT
 TELLS OF CRIME
Justice Golf May Order New Trial After Hear
 ing Evidence

New York, April 11-Re1atives and friends of the four gunmen, sentenced to die in the electric chair early Mon- day morning for the murder of the gambler Rosentna1 and the convicted hopes for 8 respite on a hearing be- fore Supreme Court Justice John w. Golf on a motion for new trial.
 It was doubtful if the hearing be- fore Justice Golf could be concluded today, in which event it was expected that District Attorney Whitman would join with counsel for the gunmen in requesting Governor GIynn to grant a respite.
 WARDEN CHEERS GUNMEN.
 Unless such respite is received by Warden Clancy of Sing Sing prison be- fore the time set for the execution of the four men, he has made it plain that the original program of, execu- ton will be followed.
 Warden Clancy stated his position in reply to request from Charles G. F. WahIe, counsel for the gunmen, that the executions be postponed until Thursday to provide against the con tingency of having to continue the arguments on the motion for new trial beyond today.
 Until word of the 11th hour fight being made in their behalf was car ried to them in the deathhouse at Sing Sing late last night, the four gunmen were preparing for death. At first they refused to believe that hope re- mained for them to escape the cleo trics chair but, as the meaning of the news drought to them by Warden Clancy was explained, they became more effeerfuL 5 The evidence upon which MT. Wah1e bases his motion for a new trial came to him only yesterday.
 BURWEHLis EVIDENCE.
 w. B. Burwe11, of Waterbury, Conn, a. pool and billiard player, swore to an affidavit that he saw the murder of RosenthaI; that he saw the man who shot the gambler and that this man was not one of the four gunmen. Bur well declared that he could identify the murderer if he could see him again.
 Carl Dresner, bartender, is the other witness upon whom Mr. Wahle relies to make his motion for a new trial. Dresner swore than he had previously known Jack Rose, ttBridgey' Webber, Harry ValIon and Sam Schepps and Herman Rosentha1. On the morning of the murder, Ores ner said he saw Vallon and Webber in the s3gray car'' it was leaving the scene of the murder and Schepps was standing on the running board.
 Burwe1I and Dresner were to be cross examined by District Attorney Whitman or his assistants and their testimony will be a matter of argu- ment. If Justice Golf decides that the testimony of the two witnesses opens a fresh line of defense, he can set aside the former verdict of guilty and grant a new trial but, if the motion is denied, all hope for the condemned men will end, Governor Glynn having refused to reconsider his refusal to interfere.
 MYSTERIOUS NOTE SEIZED.
 MT. Wahle, chief of counsel for the prisoners said today that several new amdavits had been obtained but the signers of only three of them would be called upon to testify.
 Proceedings before Judge Golf were interrupted here when Judge Golf or dcred a young man swko delivered 8 note to him stopped before he could leave the room. The man was placed on the witness stand. He said he was Gustave Beck and that he had come to the court to deliver a note to B. B. M. Browne, a Jewish clergyman who has been working in the gunmen's be- half. The note had been handed to him in the hall of the courthouse, he explained. That all he knew about it.
 MT. Browne. on the stand, .discIaim- ed Knowledge of the note and it's con- tents were not made public at the time. The clergyman read it, but would say only fsIt is secret. Carl Dresner, a bartender and sign erof an affidavit, stated that he had seen the now notorious informers, Jack Rose, 'sBrid gey'' Webber, Harry automobile from the scene of the Ros- entha1 murder was called to the stand. Indications were that the hearing would be protracted and perhaps stretch into 8 night session BurwelI Well Known To TXTa4o,.1o11,.xr poIioo