Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-13
WHITLEY LEWIS.

death without contessing.
Outside in the moonlight armed
sentries paced back and forth and
inside the penitentiary every guard
| was on duty to prevent an outbreak
of any kind OF the 1000 prisoners
| majority believed that the execution
| OF "Dago Frank" Lefty Louie !"
Whitley Lewis" and "Gyp the Blood
| was an injustice, because a new trial
! had been granted to Charles Becker,
the ex-police lieutenant, who had
been found guilty at his first trial of
inspiring the murder of Herman Ros-
enthal.
No Sleep in Death House.
There was no sleep in the death
| house Not one Of the sixteen men
waiting electrocution enjoyed any
restful slumber. Throughout Sunday
afternoon there had been such dra
matte hysteria attending the fare
wells OF the relatives of the gun
men" that affairs were all atingle.
A small army OF newspaper CORE
| spondents and photographers occu-
| pied the outside Offices of Warden
! Clancys quarters but few tried to
| sleep. There was a sort Of electric
vibration in the air that forbade
slumber There was expectancy and
! feeling that something would hap
would one of the gunner con-
fess? Would Governor Glynn grant
an eleventh hour reprieve?" These
were questions in which was born an
uncertainty that existed until the
electricity was turned into the bodies
of the young slayers
The four products of the Manhat-
tan East Side who paid the penalty
of their crime to-day were convicted
on November 10. 1912, of bring the
shots which killed Herman Rosenthal
las he stepped from the Hotel Metro
pole into Forty third street just on
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 Sc
quel to a gambling war in which the
other underworld interests had tried
to drive him from the fat field of the
upper Tenderloin Bomb outrages,
slayings 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 a partner in the Rosen-
thai gambling house, the desperate
man was now about to expose the
whole Illegal conspiracy Of police and
crime
The gambler was sitting in the Met
rcpole about o'clock in the morning
/ of July L. 1872 A man entered and
( asked him to come outside. Lurking
, ia the shadows were "Bridgey" Web
4 err. Bald Jack Rose and Harry VAL
lon. Near by stood a motor car with
engine running The policemen sup
POSED to be on station near by had
been lured away
Rosenthal Shot to Death.
In the glare of bright lights and
within loo feet of Times Square tour
: Young men shot Rosenthal to death
and leaped into the motor car A
hfth man also entered, It Is said by
! some. and urged the driver onward
by holding n revolver to his head and
striking him The car disappeared in
- the direction Of Fifth avenue. But SO
, sure were the murderers that Charles
{ Becker would protect them that they
D left the correct license number on
The murder car" and this was noted
by a man who happened to be a wit
] ness to the shooting
| The next day New York was In a
3 turmoil The District Attorney and
= Becker were on the scene long before
dayhreak There We're ugly rumors OF
; police attempts to cover the murder
] ers trail It was recalled that RO-
seminal was 10 tell q complete story
TO Mr Whitman the very day Of his
death The motive of the murder
E could not have been more clear.
Not for several days were the
. names of the four out TO death to-
Cay mentioned The murder car
p ,,.1s found and fht, nv, Du-rers pvf