The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-04-16
-FOUR GUNNER. DIE
IN ELECTRIC CHAIR
SlayerS of Rosentha' Pay Penalty
for Crime.
LAST PLEA DENIED By GOFF
Murderers Led to instrument Of Death
One at Time. "Dago Frank"
Being the First to 30
Eleotrocuted.
LAST PLEA DENIED By G0FF

Ossining, N. Y, April 14.-Wltnout
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 Cirofici, alias 'Dago Frank,
SIS to 5:44,
Jacob Seidenschner, alias Frank
Muller" and Whitley Lewis 5:4S to
$3.50.
Harry Horowitz, alias "Gyp the
Blood" 5:57 to 6:C2.
Louis Rosenberg, alias Lefty
Louie" sos 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 quadrupe execution passed of
without a hitch ali the condemned
final consolation which was admins
tered continually during the closing
hours of their lives. Cirofici went
to the chair with a crucifix in each
hand shouting prayers and chanting
over and over again God have
mercy"
Rosenberg and Horowitz prayed in
Jewish and even as the current was
turned into their bodies their lips
moved in their final petition.
Mrs. Mary Cirofici, mother Of "Dago
Frank" who has led the fight in be-
half of her son and the other con-
demred man. arrived at the prison
few hours before the executions.
after having made final bat futile
plea to Governor Glynn at Albany for
executive clemency.
New York, April 13.-The last hope
OF the four gunner was blasted. S1'
preme Court Justice John w. Golf, to
WON a final appeal for a new trial
had been made, declined to reopen the
case.
At prolonged hearing Justice Goff,
who was the presiding judge at the
trial of the gunner, listened to the
testimony of new witnesses produced
at the L st moment by counsel for the
doomed men.
District Attorney Whitman, who ar
rived from Chicago short time before
the hearing, was amply prepared with
witnesses to meet the testimony Of
fered. His cross-examination appar-
emily riddled much of the evidence,
destroyed it's value where it did not
put the witness himself on the de-
fensive
The four products of the Manhattan
East side, who paid the penalty OF
their crime today. were convicted on
November 10, 1912 of firing the shots
which killed Herman Rosenthal as he
stepped from the Hotel Metropole into
Forty third street, just off Broadway,
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 a gambling war in which
the other underworld interests had
tried to drive him from the fat field
OF the upper tenderloin. Bomb out
RACES, Sayings 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
Metropole about two o'clock in the
morning of July 16, 1912. A man en-
tered and asked him to come outside.
Lurking in the shadows were
"Brdgey" Weber, "Balk jack Rose
and Harry WALTON. Near by stood
motor car with engine running. The
policemen supposed to be on station
near by had been Tered away.
In the glare of bright lights and
within 100 feet Of Times square four
young men shot Rosenthal ID death
and leaped into the motor car A fifth
man also entered, 1t Is said by some,
and urged the driver onward by hold |
ing revolver to his head and strik- |
ing him. The car disappeared in the
direction OF Fifth avenue