Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1914 — FOUR GUNMEN PAID PENALTY FOR CRIME [ARTICLE]

FOUR GUNMEN PAID PENALTY FOR CRIME

“Dago Frank" Made Confession a Few Moments Before Going to Chair—Becker Innocent At an early hour Monday morning in Sing Song prison four 'gunmen met their fates in the electric chairs prepared for their execution. The crime for which they paid their lives was the murder of Herman Rosenthal, a gambler. The men who were electrocuted were “Dago Frank” Ciroficf, ‘Gyp the Blood” Horowitz, “Lefty Louie” Rosenberg and “Whitey Lewis” Seidenshner. Just before going to his doom “Dago Frank" made a confession, denying that he had anything to do with the crime and claiming that at the time Rosenthal was killed he was five miles away. He admitted being acquainted with the plan to kill him and that he was a party to the conspiracy and two nights before the gambler was slain he had gone with the others to-try to find him and take his life. They were frightened on that occasion by two men they thought were detectives. The confession was to the effect that he‘ Cirofici, did not. believe that Becker had anything to do with the crime. > The men who paid the death penalty for the Rosenthal murder were among the worst type of lawless characters and the punishment inflicted is expected to have a moral effect on the great city of New York, where gangs of .gunmen have held themselves subject to hire for the commission of any kind of crimes.