The sun., 1918-12-18
TWENTY CONNECTS
FREED ON PAROLE
Death House Barber Who Has
Shaved Condemned Men
10 Years Released.
MORE TO BE CONSIDERED
The Governor Sends Another
Batch Of Combinations to
the State Board.

The death house at Sing Sing prison
yesterday lost the man who for nine
teen years has shaved little patches
on the head of each condemned man
to permit the application OF the cleo
trodes just before he passed through
the little green door leading to the
execution chamber The state Board
Of Parole, which was in session at the
prison yesterday, granted paroles to
twenty convicts, and one of them was
Henry Dorsch, the death house barber
Dorsch killed his wife in Brooklyn
twenty years ago and was sent to
Sing Sing for from twenty years to
life. He has served nineteen years
with a few months of for good be-
havior Almost Immediately upon his
arrival at the prison he took up the
work which he has since followed.
Twice each week no has shaved the
death house inmates, as well as pre-
pairing them for the chair.
Building Co. Counsel Freed.
Herbert Reeves also was paroled
yesterday. He was counsel for the
Model Building and Loan Company in
The Bronx and swindled widows and
orphans out OF close to $250,000. Mrs.
o. II. P. Belmont was one of his vic
tins. He was sentenced to FIVE years
and six months, but the sentence was
committed by the Governor and his
case sent to the State Board of Pa
role after he had served less than a
year and a half.
Arthur Darrell, a city clothing sales
man. accused Of stealing 100000 worth
Of cloth from his employer, also was
released yesterday.
Unofficial word was received at the
prison last night of combinations
which will permit many more cases
to come before the board in January.
Among them is George Hodson from
Erie county, sentenced to twenty years
for second degree murder. He was
sergeant at arms and head Of the
Mutual Welfare League during the
wardenship of Thomas Mott Osborne.
Communication was granted to James
F. Ginning, who in May, 1915, was
sentenced in Kings county for rob-
berry, to n minimum Of seven and a
half years and a maximum OF fifteen.
He has a brother who is serving in
France as a Major. and another who
Is a newspaper man in Chicago.
The youthful sister OF William j. F.
ONeill was successful in pleading
with Gov. Whitman to allow her broth
er's case to come before the State
Board next month. He was sentenced
to from two and half TO four and a
half years for forgery in New York
county February rs this year.
Conducted Big surety SwindIe.
Joseph Elihu Root Runzmann, who
asserts he Is a godson OF Elihu Root.
also will be eligible for parole in jan
uary He was resident secretary in
New York OF the Illinois Surety Com
for swindles OF nearly 100000. He
has been in prison year and a half
Other combinations for men from
New York city include George and
Robert McVetty, who made a haul in
a taxicab robbery; Philip T. White, An
drew johnson, sent up for assault:
Robert Moore. forgery; Patrick
Murphy. manslaughter: Dominiclk
Cuccia. arson; a. F. Sobolew-
ski, grand larceny: Samuel Rip
stein. robbery; David Shapiro rob-
berry; Charles Nelson. robbery: Will
lam c. Hamilton. coercion: Vincenzo
Nasca, attempted kidnapping; John
Cerulli rape: Joseph and Antonio La
sale, second degree murder. and Isaac
Epstein arson.
The Governor declined to interfere
with the ten year sentences OF Daniel
V. Warner and Alfred Anderson, con-
victed in Queens county of bribing a
police officer who had arrested them
for pocket picking.