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Show MURDERERS IN CHECAGO GIVEN ' OfHTII&lftlCE ' CHICAGO, Nov 28 Four men were found guilty of niur- f der in the first degree and sen- tenced to death, and two boys wore given sentences of life imprisonment tonight for the murder of a truck farmer on the -f j outskirts of tho city a month -t- aco. , The four sentenced to death 4- are Ewald and Frank Shlblaw- ski, Philip Commcrling and 4- Thomas Schultz. The two sen- 4- tenced to life Imprisonment are 4- 4- Frank Klta and Leo Ruchom- 4- 4- ski, both 1C years old. 4- 4- 4-4-4- 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4- Ewald Shiblawskl Is 24 years old, his brother Is 21; Soramerllng, a brother-in-law of Frank Shiblawskl, is 34 years old, and Schultz 10 years old. ' Only One Ballot Taken. The jury was out two hours and only one ballot was taken In considering- each cftso. Tho youth of the two 16-year-old bovs was all that saved them from hanging, the Jurors said, each memher of the panel feeling feel-ing that they lacked the Judgment of their older companions, and that a chance for pardon should bo givon them A heavy guard stands tonight about the countv Jail, about the home of the prosecutor, that of Judge Petit, in whoso court the verdict was returned,, and a policeman Is detailed to guard the home of each of the Jurors Gang to Revenge the Verdict. Just before the men were taken into tho court room to hear the verdict fVinv tnlH fVin I1y Vinf uVinnl fhn death penalty be voted to them, a band of their comrades was prepared to invade tho court room or follow to their homes those responsible for the sentence and revenge the verdict However, no disturbance save the hvstorical shrieks of relatives of the doomed men interrupted the proceedings proceed-ings When the verdicts were read, ono by one. the men, as they were named in the messages of death, collapsed ahd had to be assisted to their cells by guards The life Imprisonment sentences were the last read, and the reaction which followed the unexpected order that life should not he tho price of their crime threw Klta into convulsions convul-sions and his companion became hysterical. hys-terical. Widow Attends Court. Tho widow of the murdered man sat in court holding her babe In her lap and heard the four men sentenced to givo up their lives to the state In return re-turn for the one they had taken from her She nodded her head anprovlnc lv, then broke down and wept, crying that the verdict would not restore her husband to her. The bovs were locked In separato cells tonight, each under a strong guard. The victim of the youthful thugs was Fred W Gruelzow. He was murdered mur-dered while on his war from his track farm to the Chicago market with a load of produce. Two of the boys had revolvers, two had butcher knives and the others had clubs Pleaded for I is Life. The evidence showed that he nlead-od nlead-od for his life on his knees, offering the boys all his possessions, becauso he had a wife and a baby a month old at home The answer of thr vnuths was to beat him into unconsciousness with the clubs, so that his skull was fractured, his Jaw broken and his nose clubbed nearly off. After Gruelzow became unconscious, ho was stabbed four times In the nock and his throat cut. The corpse was dragged Into a nenrbv thicket, a club lammed down tho throat and several bullets fired into the JIMess bodv Tho bovs were arrested while trying to pell somp of the Motv One of them I wore the farmer's boots |