HOW THE MEN DIED.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 662, 22 April 1914, Page 2

HOW THE MEN DIED.

THE NEW YORK ELECTROCU TIONS.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.—CopyrigiH

London, April 15th. The four men implicated in the murder of Herman Rosenthal were electrocuted this morning at Sing Sing Prison.

It took 40 minutes to dispatch the four men. They all walked quietly to the chair, quaking at the knees, and with a sickly green pallor on their faces.

Dago Frank was the first to go, and he offered little resistance to the current of 1920 volts and between nine and ton amperes. He intended to make a statement, but became unequal to the task. The first contact was gradually reduced, then a Becond shock was given, after whicii the doctor in attendance applied his stethoscope and said: "I pronounce this man dead." Whitey Lewis next took the same voltage, with a slightly higher amperge, and was dead in 4| minutes. Lewis was the only one to make a statement. As he was being strapped to the chair he said, "Gentlemen, I did not shoot at Rosenthal, and those who said I did were perjurers. For the sake of justice I say I didn't witness —" But before he could finish the senI tence the straps had been adjusted and the electric current turned on-

"Gyp the BIooq" went to th 9 chair

holding a Jewish prayer book in his hand. Just before the current was turned on he was heard to mutter: "Israel, there is only one God." "Lefty Louis," or Rosenweig, was the last of the quartet to suffer the fatal shock, and as he was being secured to the chair the wretched fellow mumbled a prayer in Hebrew. Rosenweig bore out the theory that the strongest shall die Inßt, the resistance he offered to the current being so great that nine minutes elapsed before he was dead.