New Britain herald., 1914-04-14
s'DACO FRANK" ADMITS
 BECKER IS INNOCENT
CI0fCj in His Statement Accuses
 HoToWtz, Rosenberg and vaNon.

Albany. N. Y., April 14.-Shortly before "Dago Frank" Cirofici went to the death chair in Sing Sing prison early yesterday he told Warden Clancy that "Gyp the Blood" Horowitz, Lefty Louis" Rosenberg, and Harry Vallon, an informer, fired the shots which killed Herman Rosenthal, for which crime the four gunmen paid their lives.
 "So far as I know, Becker had nothing to do with this case,'' the gum man also declared. Tt was a gam bler's fight''
 Cirofici averred he was five miles away at the time the crime was com- mitted and that "Whitey Lewis Sei- denshner, although present at the scene of the shooting, did not fire any of the shots. Cirofici 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 by men whom they thought to be, detec- tives 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 gunmen, but he insisted that he left them before they shot the gam oler
 The Warden's Statement.
 The formal statement of the war den follows
 ho, ioh% n'o SrYod 1oiCnf 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 fifty men in New York he could name. He said T don't care about myself, it's my family I care for
 "I caused Frank Cirofici to be brought from the condemned cell house to the principal keepers office about o'clock Monday morning. He made, the following among other statements. in the presence of myself, Principal Keeper McInerny, the chap lain, his mother and sister. They urged him to tell the whole truth. He hesitated and said: rt ,.,g~-..sa4 ;,.,., ''I don't want to make any state ment for the public. do not fear for myself, but do fear. for you.'f7|i, His sister replied :fs on t VhaM any fearjfor .us,, we will take care of our selves. God wills prptect us.'@ 9
 His mother and saister continued to urge him to tell the truth. He said T did Hot do. the shooting .. F he ' men who fired the shots were Gyp, Louie and vallon.
 "He said, I was five miles away at the time. So far as I know Becker had nothing to do with this case. 1t was a gamblers fight
 Shapiro Told Truth.
 '.He mentioned several raids on gambling houses and said that the story Shapiro told to Commissioner Dougherty was true. He said, I told some lies on the stand to prove an alibi for the rest of the boys. The testimony about the conversation with Rose in the car on the way down was not true I was in Bridgey Webber's when Iu0 arrangements WC1C AAdAC. < did not know just what the arrange ments were.
 "I knew something was coming off. I did not see Louie pack the trunk as I testified on the stand. There were guns there, but not the ones they used When asked how he gained this information, he said: Y heard the boys talking about it since I was here.''
 'The conversation then related to other matters not directly connected with the Rosenthal murder. He ad- mitted his knowledge of and partici- patton in the preparations for the murder, but denied his presence when the actual murder was committed
 According to MT. Clancy, virtually everything that Cirofici said after he started to make his final statement was voluntary. His defense of Beck CT came absolutely without sugges. ton from any one, the warden main- tained. s6e'
 Cirofci's statement was not who'll ly unexpected. It was rumored last Thursday that he might talk, and this
 
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