| Show Murder Inc Boss Dictates Last Statement to Wife By Art Cohn OSSINING N. N Y March 4 INS INS Louis Louis Lepke Buchalter mastermind of oC Brooklyn's infamous infamous inCa inCa- Murder Inc denied Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day that he had offered to barter gangland information In exchange for a a. commutation of his death sentence Lepke Lephe dictated a statement in his cell in the here and his wife wICe who has stood by him unflinchingly read it to the press at a news conference shortly after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon Saturday I r am anxious to have it clearly understood that I did not offer to talk and give information in exchange exchange exchange ex ex- ex- ex change for any promise of a commutation commutation com corn mutation of my death sentence Lepke's Leple's last words said I did not ask for that I insist that I 1 am not guilty of the Rosen murder that the witnesses against me rue lied and that I did not receive a fair trial Asks Investigation Lepke asked that a 8 commission be appointed to examine the murder mur der case for which he was con con- He said that he was willIng willing will will- ing to go to the chair If the examination ex cx- did not show that he was not guilty Lepke and two companions were i convicted specifically of oC the slay slaying slaying slay slay- ing of Joseph Rosen an obscure Brooklyn candy store owner and ex x con x-con tractor As Mrs Lepke Lephe read her condemned condemned condemned con con- husbands husband's final words she was not aware that the United States supreme me court had rejected his tiis appeal for lor a stay of execution based on a a. desperate plea that the rights had been violated when he was released from federal custod custody to New York state authorities That she as well as her husband were resigned to his death in Sing Sings Sing's grim electric chair Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day night was indicated in her I prayerful sigh at the conclusion of his statement Lepke's Own Words All we can do now is pray to God that everything turns out outwell outwell well she said Before disclosing Lepke's last thoughts his wife specifically asked newspaper men not to alter or change any of his words They are just as he told them to me and I wrote them down word for word she said Mrs Buchalter who read her husbands husband's statement in a low voice oice had hardly finished when the silence in a tavern scene of ot the interview was broken broleen by the radio announcement that the supreme court had denied the appeal of I Lepke and his two lieutenants Emanuel Mendy Weiss and Louis Capone Her face turned ashen her hands trembled and behind her smoked glasses her eyes took on ona ona ona a glazed blazed faraway expression Oh she gulped as her son Harold 22 22 who had remained behind behind be be- hind her throughout the interview grasped her arm |
