Electrocuted.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 94, 14 April 1914, Page 5

Electrocuted.

ATSING-SING PRISON. ■■: JHE ROSENTHAL MURDER. Ife iLMTBIO TbLKOBAPH—COPTRIQHT] lUntwd Association.] I (Received 11.45 a.m.) New York, April 13. Four "gunmen," convicted of the of Herman Rosenthal, were kectticuted at the Sing-Sing prison. None confessed. As anticipated, >one mentioned Becker as in any way •onnected with the crime. » "Whitey" Lewis, as he was being (trapped to the electric chair, mum>led: "Gentlemen, I did not shoot Ipsenthal; those who said I did were feurers. For the sake of justice, Pltlemen, I say I did not." The electric current here cut short he statement. The Jewish Rabbi attended Lewis fcd "Gyp the Blood." IA Roman Catholic chaplain attend- £> "Dago Frank" and another Rabbi Icompanied "Lefty" Louis. BDwing to the crowds of newspaper Iporters, a certain number were admitted to each execution. The condemned men nearly collapsed r hile waiting. ;A new trial has been granted tecker.

•A cablegram from New York dated 29th, stated: — "Police Lieutenant Becker, who was jrivicted and sentenced to death for lie murder of the gambler Rosenthal, ud who is now in "Murderers' Row," i Sing Sing prison, offers to disclose holesale political graft scandals if i& ! death sentence is commuted. Becker says he is able to kill polieally ail Governor Sulzer's enemies ho have impeachced the Governor >r graft. Rosenthal was shot down in the fcreets of New York after he had romised to give evidence against the police in an inquiry into Wges made against them as re- ( irded their dealings with gambling iloons. Suspicion fell upon Lieumant Becker, who was Rosenthal's trtner in a gambling saloon. Becker as arrested at Bathgate police station l the Bronx, where he was doing Bsk duty. Three gamblers who ere arrested in connection with the ttirder made confessions. ~ One of lem named Rose, known as "Billiard all Jack," asserted that he„ had for sars acted as agent for Becker,, colcting tribute on his behalf from irious gambling dens in New York. he murder plot was hatched in ridgie Webber's ■ saloon, Becker, acvding to the confessions, alternate-; threatening and cajoling the con j (irators. "I have sent for you tree," Becker is alleged to have said, to tell you what you have got to >, and if you don't do it, why then ipk out for yourselves, that's all. that's the danger? Rosenthal is only 'squealer' (informer), and everybody ill say that the city is better off ithout him." After the murder ecker met the three conspirators and >ld them not to, worry, that the mureir would only create a ripple and lat he had power enough to see that *e police remianed inactive. It was itimated that the confessions also officials of the police "highr up" than Becker.