The evening world. Newspaper, April 13, 1914, Page 1

UNMEN NEVER HEARD OF LIEUT. BECKE | EXTRA The “ Circulation [Circulation Books Open to All.’”| All.” beadint “Hr ph siamo NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 18, Freee {The New York World). CAN'T TRANSFER BIG CROWDS AT HUMAN ORGANS, | FUNERAL OF FIRST SAYS DR. CARREL} GUNMAN BURIED Noted Surgeon Tells Confreres That Such Experiments Proved Unsuccessful. STEATHBR—Vatr ond cotd to-night) Puccdey outa , FAD —=— — _PRIOE “ONE ‘OENT. WHITMAN THROWS A DOUBT ON GUNMAN'S CONFESSION: READY 10 TRY BECKER AGAIN 30,00 AT OPENN CANE OF FEDERAL LEAGUES SEASON Mayor Declares Half Holiday SSS es PRIOE ONE CENT. AGO FRANK WADE CNFESSON TOMOTHER AN HOUR BEFORE DEATH Never Heard of Lieut. Becker, De- clared Condemned Gunman— Hired to Kill “Dollar John” Lan- ger and Herman Rosenthal. * PAGES 1914. 'Gunman Who Confessed How Rosenthal Was Put to Death| News of Bringing of Body of Whitey Lewis Spreads Quickly Over East Side, | Can’t See How Cirofici Could Know About Shooting if He Didn’t See It. SAME WITH ANIMALS.|}ALL STREETS BLOCKED. encecmsciesemmnsnese | Services at Undertaker’s Stable Attended by His Family, The body of “Whitey Lewis" sSel- No Sign at Present That the Desired End Will Be Achieved. TO PUSH BECKER CASE. Will Ask Justice Seabury to} Begin It May 4, but Experiments which convinced him Shay Objects. Assistant District-Attorney Dela- fmanty, who is in Albany, had District- Attorney Whitman on the long-dis- tance telephone this afternoon and / teld him of @ ao-called confession | made by “Dago Frank" a few hours before he was put to death in Sing ‘Bing this morning, saying it was be made public in full at Albany to- night. Mr. Delabanty gave Mr. Whit- | man the substance of the confession ever the telephone, but because he had not seen it nor had it read com- | that he would go before Justice Sea- par “What has bappened to-day ts a Vindication for Becker. Hecker will be acquitted without a doubt now,” Mr. Shay aaid. “To the last these four men denied that Rose had eaid amything to them about Becker. Rose testified that he went to them for Becker, but they sald he didn’t, and to my mind that shows that Rose lied | on the witness stand in the Becker trial.” Becker in his cell in the Tombs re- fused to see callers. In response to notes from reporters the former po- lowing a visit of Shay to Becker in the Tombs that Mr. Shay had severed his connection with tht Becker case and would not appear as counsel to the ex-policeman at his new trial @f truth in this rumor. He has not terminated his connection with the ease.” HOLD HER FOR SHOOTING OF BROTHER-IN-LAW hip Say Woman Accused of Crime Told Them Slain Man | GILMORE ENTHUSIASTIC. | already on hand and when the sun | standing room only and Baltimore Fans Make It Gala Occasion. President of “Outlaws” Wires} Fellow. Magnates.on Success | of Organization’s Start. SCORE BY INNINGS. | BUFFALO— Old Glory was run up on the centre- Held flagpole. The crowd at 2.30 ex- tended for several blocks outside the | ates and they were being ad- mitted rapidly, “Knabe's" Monu- mentals took the fleld for practice immediately and were wildly cheered. Runt Walsh drove the first ball out of the fleld over the left-field fence in practice, Schalfy’a pets went on the fleld at 2.30, Both teams displayed plenty of pepper. Moving picture men were busy. There were few vacant seats at 2.40! President Gilmore sent a telegram) to each of the magnates in the cities where the Feds are located, saying: “Weather ideal, Greatest crowd I Dawn found the formation of lines | of eager spectators outside the fence arose the lines numbered hundreds, More than 15,000 reserved seats had, been sold. Hight thousand five bun- dred seats were placed on sale at} noon and these were quickly gobbled up; 10,000 pasteboards calling for were also put} on sale and went quickly. The town is really baseball mad that it was impossible to replace the organs of one person with those of another were recounted to-day to, members of the International Surgi- oal Association in the Hotel Astor by Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Inetitute, winner of the Nobel prize for surgery in 1912, Some two hui dred surgeons attended the congreas, the fourth sigoe the association's in- ception and the first ever held in this country Dr. Carrel said he had found that organs could be taken out, cleansed and replaced in animals, but that the time was not ripe for applying thin) to human beings, However, even in rations to man Hall to-day with the thumb on his left hand wound about with bandages. Inquiries as to what had happened re- vealed the fact that in stropping his razor this. morning preparatory to shaving, the ae, slipped and cut his thumb, * re scratch,” said the Mayor. se I stropped too vigorously.” Williamsbure we Open. The Willlamsburg Bridge, which was cloned to trattic last Friday to permit | of repaire, waa thrown open to-day for | all frame, Bridge Commissioner Kracke said it would necessary within a selnthy te again close the’ beldge for several days for more PAPERS COMBINED AS A GUIDE TO POSITIONS. If you want work of any kind, a larger wiery or more congenial em- it 10,68 WANTED" ADS, MORE THAN 1,203 DOUBLE THE 4,740 PUBLISHED IN ALL THE SIX OTHER NEW YORK MORN. ING AND SUNDAY NE PAPERS ADDED TOGETHER. Do not these remarkable facts give you renewed hope in finding the em- ployment you seek? Do they not impress you with The World's truly remarkable prestige as denshner was to-day brought from the death house of Sing Sing in an automobile funeral van to the under- taking establishment of Hirsch & Schwarts, No. 60 Willet street, which is the very heart of the lower east le. The funeral took place at 8 o'clock this afternoon, Louis Hirsch reading the services for the dead in Hebrew. The body will be taken to Mount Zion Cemetery at Maspeth, L. L, and interred. The news that the body of Lewis, who had been brought up in the neighborhood, was being brought back to the haunta he had frequefted in life spread through the most denacly Even before the body reached the undertaking establishment the crowd had become se great thut the reserves from the Clinton street station were sent to keep open traffic ahd guard binder, came with bis wife, Mirtam, and their children, Moritz, Joseph, Besse and Tilly. There 4s nothing fancy «out the Hirech & Schwartz oxtablishment, It Js nearly all stable. Space Jn that part of the east side 1s very precious and the firm has no parlor or chapel form of room for the holding of ser- vices for the dead. There i# only a this altar the final prayers for the dead were said. One of the visitor to the place was the man Libby, who was joint owner with Shapiro of the automobile used by the gunmen when they fled after |eral thousand gathered in the esplan- lade, with many climbing the bridge parapets to get a glimpse of the cof- fin or the vehicle carrying it. So great was the Interest in the executions that another crowd of |about 600 persons gathered about the house of "Lefty Loule’ at No. 296 Grand atreet also, and the reserves of the Clinton street station, which had been on duty for the funeral of “Whitey,” were sent to that place to keep traffic open, “Lefty's” body had not been brought home, but the crowd gathered just the same to stare at the windows of the building. By Martin Green. (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) SAYS VALLON FIRED SHOT IN ATTACK AT METROPOLE All Four Put to Death in 39 Minutes —All Wanted to Talk Fram the Chair. (Special to The Brening Wesd) OSSINING, April 13.—In a-confesston made thortly oefare he was put to death In the electric chafr to-day, Dago Frank Ciroficl told what / |he knew about the murder of Herman Rosenthal, The statement -was i |animals organs could not be trans-| populated section of New York, a sec- pletely to him Mr. Whitman refused| 0 0 0 0 2 0 o— Han Backed ata dammed wit “DAGO FRANK." ‘ : to comment on it. He did call atten- | BALTIMORE-- aS a of experiments on dogalof Rudhan oe ea with peop | made in a private rc in Sing Sing prison to- a's mother, this La ie ie eyes ae de oo0o03s00 _— beginning as long ago as 1908, when| It filtered over as far as Corlear’s sister and several others, @aid he had not been at the scene of cee organs were removed and cleansed| Hook to the east and through the tall , a Eee How, sia seus rat BATTING ORDER. with perfect success, The transfer| tenements of the byways around The point of Dago Frank'x statement t that, according ‘to his beet strict-Attorney, — cou! e tell) itimore. Buffal of kidneys was made in two dogs,| Hamilton Park to the north, Byery: knowledge and hellef, gained from conversation held after tragedy, whether or not Vallon had fived ny) yyeyer, rf. Hanford, cf, and, although the animals gave| body on lower Avenue D, Ave , - ef the shots? A ene Downey, 2b, promise for weeks of regaining com-|and the little crons atreets that Hae Whitey Lewis, Lefty Loule and Gyp the Bleed kille@ Herman Rosenthal. t the con ouden, 98, : iy “ zee selene aut a in ee Behan on plete health, both died in about seven Bg ech tte in sit sertieh heard Furthermore, ané probably most impertant of the revelation of Bago tess Delehanty, If. or eight montha, about the bringing of the dead gun: . Frank, Is the declaration that Lieut. Beckers mame was never mentioned Jack Rose that he, Webber and Val- | Smith, 3d. “In all my experiments,” sai? he,|man to the Hirach & Schwartz estab- 2: fon went to the Seventh avenue fat ; Agier, tb. “Phave found that although cla nsing| lishment. ] to him im connection with the murder, os the avamen/ on isha ae ok the Onn oe hl x speretions: were slnaya) mic al La eeteant jhe Eaasoyer bein As a matter of fact, according to Dago Frank's story the gunmen mobile to Webber’ poker room at! suycr Preston tossed out the frat | variably proved unsuccessful, Wel thodox of the anctent faith of Judah iT) ” did not atart out to “get” Herman Rosenthal, The man they were Sixth avenue and Forty-second atreet, | ball. have at present no ray of ight which] away from thelr tasks, Tho bright after was Dollar John Langer, an east side gambler who had incurred Mr, Whitman gave notice to-day eae ea WA may aid us in applying transferral] wunahine was a lure the mult! the enmity of Jack Rose and Bridgie Webber. TER | >, "9 " x | Ol tudi: ehitd: e d the side " bury Wednesday and move that the), a ts et eee Dr, Carrel said his experiments and ede ek ass vThe th Clroficl, in hin statment, sald that on July 15, 1018, the date preceding eecond trial of former, Police Lieu. |" “Pr ‘andemonium greeted) i ose of Dr. James B. Murphy of the| pered of the gunmen's return to the | that of Rosenthal’a murder, he, Whitey Lewis, Leale and , the opening of the League | Rockefeller Institute had been made | > be! Blood Instructed by Jack Rose and Hridgle Webber tenant Charles Becker, for the mur- CORSET uw a | Moats ie . ire | Neighborhood fearfully to each other | Ty Thi ; Fy | were Ins yy Jacl an fe! te to Par aw iy «| on dogs, cats and sheep. Dr, Mur- ok -Nine Minutes to P a at of Rosenthal, borin Monday, May Me pantmone Aid Mottate| Biy's renulte contrimed Dr. Carrets| and went in ttle aquada to peep into 5 Phirty-Ni . os ae. £0 at Quartet t0/ neekaway and “do up Dollar John.” Just at thin time Rosenthal wes fn + ». », | While the Fourth Regiment Band} Mayor Slashes a Thumb, % n ag coould su aste and would ak Pes & date in the latter Tiivedi tel "Blar Banging Banner i| Aesor’ Milaiel ariyed at the Ciiy | @utemobile hearse had rolled, Innocence as Current as Turned On. | the relations betwoem himself and Becker, | FGUND “DOLLAR JOHN” SURROUNDED. Rosenthal's story to the DistrictAttomey was scheduled to be told, | few hours after the gunmen were deputed t to Par Rocka: OSSINING, April 13.—In just thirty-nine minutes from the time | vet “Dollar John.” Clrofict sald gh pine Hid Recawey a “Dago Frank” Circfici sat in the electric chair at 5.38 o'clock thls mom- | was described to the “boys” as a “‘squealer.”” ing the law had exacted its penalty for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, and four limp corpses lay on slabs in the autopsy room back of the death chamber. “Dago Frank” was the first to go. “Whitey Lewis’ Seidenshner, “Gyp the Blood” Horowltz and “Lefty | Cirofici and Horowitz were the most expeditlously slain. Lewis died hard. Poor little Rosenberg, the last to go, almost prostrated by the wait for his fate, offered such resistance to the electric current that three separate shocks were required to end his life. one who adhered tu his determination. tening the electrodes to his head and face he almost shouted thls last message to the world: “Some witnesses went on the stand and swore they seen They are perjurers! 1 swear, by God, I didn’t shoot at Rosenthal! As Whitey uttered the word “perjurers” Rabbi Goldstein, his spiritua! adviser, began to chant the prayers for the dead in Hebrew, The con demned man finished his denial and then joined In the prayer which was cut short by the shock that coursed through his body, With machine-like precision | While the electriclans were fas- Whitey aboot other In an automobile, he complied, Clrofiel's statement then goes on to deserite how plans of Rose and Webber had been made, “Bridgle” Webber's poker room at Forty-second strest and Sixth ave nue In the automobile, He found “Gyp the Blood,” “Whitey Lewis” The statement of Dago Frank was mado under great stress of em cltement and {s largely fragmentary, He was not sure who sent him to Far Rockaway with the other gunmen, But he said that when he and hls companions found “Dollar John’ at the seashore “Dollar John” was | surrounded by a “bunch,” lice Heutenant sent word he “had |and the crowd was lined dozens deep tiny lite office barely large enough |). 4, Owing to the presence of the “bunch,” “Dago Frank's” recital goes, : |aun fleld. oT NEWS. || was built and drape: black. They went to the Continental Cafe, at No, 76 Second avenue, Ciro- fici’s statement continued, and there they divided, Cirofici said he went to Harlem to see his girl, Jean Gordon. Ho pald no attention te the movements of his companions, Inasmuch as they tad failed in thelr “ pe speated to ever saw ata ball game. Fully 40, 000 ployment, will pay you to read o R 7 7 i gat? hep. bigeee ohare ee inside and hundreds outside.” and think over carefully just what ae Orinual tae carrying “WHITEY” DENOUNCES ACCUSERS. . mission to “get” Dollar John, ee hay APY, A little negro girl captured the ball these fimures ane Ww | Whitey’e" body headed for the wil) All the men expressed to Warden Clancy a desire to be allowed to He was In his flat at One Hundred and Rarty-fifth street end Sev. J c inted— amaburg Bridge a throng of the mor- ey eikacs “Mr, Shay says there is not a word Bie Sue of te OEE hy Sealab and WORLD. "HELP | pidly curious followed and finally aev-| Say something before being put to death. Whitey Lewls was the only |enth avenue, he said In his statement, when te heard a peculiar whistle In the street, which caused him to go to the windew, In ¢ront of the flat house In whieh he Ilved he saw Jack Rose, “Bridgie’ Webber and an- They called to him te came downstairs, and They took him a change in the down to < i { “Letty Loule” there, They drank quite a fot and Webber went out, After a time Webber retumed with the information that the fa» — —" (Rosenthal) was over at the Metropole, Cirofici said that he and hls three companions started downstairs with the intention a getting into an autor » age and riding areund te the Metropole, Cirofici's statement—a little lame on this point because # was oat ee a fs oer eg ai i Y oa eri q ‘i An a position-offering medium? ‘The body of Dago Frank was], The executions were carried out afier @ night of suspense in the Do o they not convince you of the brought to the city this afternoon and prison and the death house. “4 placed in the dertakt!| if % A > you desire to turn your eee into ge ees eres called at the prison shortly after 4 o'clock this morning for a last fare- ready cash? ill be held there on Wedneaday, The| well, “Dago Frank” was taken fi Ouse World Ads, Ae as Throuply Read | mater", he executed "man was“ roma Bie death house: inte. «: room ina as They Are Well Used. taken to her ee ‘0. 360 Beet Ox Ore Mundred aa sechaininin and there has not been as much ex- citement in the city since Ned Han- lon led his famous three-time pe nant winners in the ‘90's in the Na+ tlonal League. It is a half holiday in the city and (Continued oa ‘Teath Posey “Was in the Way.” TAUNTON, Mass., April 13.—-Edmar Souder, » farmer, was shot through the Beart late to-day and died almost in- @tantly. His sister-in-law, ‘®. Brad: ford Scudder, who lived in the same Boune, was arrested, (Copiaveg om Gevgnd Page.) = me: seep