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Show ' I I ' III 1- l Chicago Breaks Record ! in Lxecutiosi Insane -I Plea of no Avail l 3 Chicago, Feb. 16. Five mon con- Ill f demned to be hanged for murder 'in JJ i die county jail liere this morrllug gJ $ made final efforts through lawyers and friends to escape the gallqws. g The time for Uio executions had been nil Bet for the hours between 10 a. m. --" and 2 p. nx. today. Court proceedings in behalf of the four murderers of Fred Guelzow, the truck gardener, were scheduled In the supreme court at Springfield and in the superior court here. Judge K. M. Landls in the United States supreme court was prepared to hear the final pleas of lawyers In habeas corpus proceedings to save the life of Thomas Jennings, the negro ne-gro convicted of the murder of Clar-Ienco Clar-Ienco Hiller, a railway clerk. In this case the lawyers argued, that the raan- ner in which the finger print evidence, which was the most damaging, was toMi'"- irregularly obtained Inasmuch as the man was compelled practically to 5i give evidence against himself ,K I Lawyers went to Springfield to ask acIfi 'i a writ of supersedeas of the supreme 1 na.- i court in the hope of halting the ex-'i ex-'i ' ccutlona of the Guelzow slayers. .& ; The five condemned men and their a5 ! ngos are; " i Frank Shlblawskl, 21 years old. m 1 Bwald Shlblawskl, 24 years old. t3 'I Phillip Sommerling, 24 yearp old. "Sil I Thomas Schultz, 19 years old. "S3 :, Thomas Jennings "(colored), 22 1 years old. M I Two others were engage din the 'e h i murder of Fred Guelzow with the J i J four men condemned to be hanged. : They escaped the sentence of their Pe? 'I fellows on -account of their age. Both i were Eent to tbe T)eTlJtentJary for' life. J They were Frank Kita and Ieo'Such- j omskl, each 26 years old. 5 ( The men murdered Guelzow "on the I ' northweBtside, while he was on bis I f way to mark"et with a load of garden 1 truck. I x Guelzow, who had been married a 1 -j little more than a year, pleaded with 1 his assailants to take his money, but 1 to spare his life for the sake of his , I wife and month-old baby. Instead, '.I his slayers attacked him with clubs, , knives and revolver. Aftor they had killed him, they mutilated his body. They were arrested while trying to - sell Guelzow's horses. The orime was committed October ) 20, 19TL The sir were found guilty December 12. The pnnlshmen of the two youngest was fixed at life im- prlsonment and the other four at 1 death. They were to have been hanged December 22, but Governor If Deneen granted a stay until today. 1 "With several score of relatives, who visited them for the last tlipe, the i four men gave way to a flood of hys- terla that bordered upon mania, , Not since the hanging of the Hay- . t market rioters in 1887 have such scenes occurred at the Cook countv ' jail. ''j i The four, Bwald and Frank Shlb- i lawsky, brothers; Philip Sommerling. L and Thomas Schultz, finally threw themselves on tho floor of the jail Ami corridor, They had to be partly car- sl , Tied and partly dragged back to the 41 i death chambers. i ' Airs. BDiDiawsKy, mother of Ewald II -j and Frank, tore her hair and fought ill i w frenclB 'who sought to quiet her II 'i "Save my two hoys," she screamed. I ''Can't anyone save them for their I mother? Oh. God. How can the1 I , world and the law be so hard?" '' Julia Kline, 18 years old, E-wald'a 3 ! fiancee, threw her arms around his ueek and refused to lot go. 4 "They Bhan't hang you, they shan't j S j hang you," she repeated. , jj i The hysteria was intensified If po3- ' Bible when Frank ShlblawBky bade 3 farewell to hiB wife and 2-year-old j child. It was said Frank asked the J baby to be brought and ho fondled it until it was thought he would ln- j Jure it. His wife fainted. j p Schultz, who Is only 18 years old, 1 was visited by his father, mother and iTk j two Bisters. Too girte, 12 and 8 ' years old, seemed not to realize that Vm , S they would not see their brother , again. They were occupied with com- jgg " fortlng their mother: sk ' J"?011'1 cr-v' maniraa. don't crv," th 1 1 ' v rls ,lmPlored as the sobbing mother. & s. was led from her son. I' V Sommerling saw his mother three J i k k61 P brothers, his wlffe and :j Daj; Md several other relatives. The 2' m0?61"' bent aud gra)" constantly I' mut.terca Prayers in Polish apd was 1 ", SdtPi uaS.aBtd ln dolns thi5 Bhe ! fJ'd not talk to hor son. iTft2!et w" not rcstore'd unUl the relatives had been taken from the jail late at night and JRev. Father ,. OBrien and Rev. Father D. L Mc- ?,,n,.al5 rrived 'rora the "Holy Name it difficult to calm the slayere. Jennings was convicted o"f Imvlnc murdered Hlllers in the lattef's home ; Sep ember 10. 1910, on being discov- t jred in the act of committing" burg- '11 i Tho Petltl" before Judge McKln IK J ,Waa 8l5ned b' 1ev. Franc sRe"- II Plnskl of St. Stanislaus RomaS QalhS. at ' jRf (Cont'nud on PaEe Seven.) ' SwvV rut ' HUGJF FIVE (Continued froiffPago One.) lie church. The priest has visited the murderers and declared thoy are of unsound mind and subject to hallucinations hal-lucinations The court would not permit tho petition pe-tition to bo filod before It "was read, as representatives of tho state's attorney's at-torney's office asserted that Its only purpose was delay. While arguments were prpceeding tho Shlblawski brothers woro hanged. Jailer Davies asbisted in taking the bodies of the two from the gallows before complying with the order to appear in court. ' Three minutes after the Shlblawski Shlblaw-ski brothers were hanged a bailiff from Supreme Court Judgo McKin-loy McKin-loy rushed into the Jailers office, summoning the Jailor to tho court. Counsel for the Guolzow murdorers had told the couit the four wore insane in-sane and asked thnt the execution bo stopped Chicago. Feb. 10,-Tho four mur-doiors mur-doiors of Fred Guolzow wero hanged . In the Jail today. They voro Ewald and Frank Shlblawski. who d!d to-goThor to-goThor Tst. and llll,'71 SommerllnB fnd Thomas Schultz, who met death a few minutes later. Tnomas Jun- 1 nings, the negro slayer of Clarenco Hiller, who was to havo been tho gallows fifth victim, was saved, for a time at least, by tho plea of his lawyers before tho federal court that, in being forced to make thumb prints, his constitutional Immunity to testify against liiinsolf had been violated. vio-lated. Desperate oleventh-hour efforts wero made by sympathizers to save the lives of the Guclzow slayers A Polish Catholic priest declared before be-fore Judge McKInley in the superior court that he believed the youths wero insane While the death march of the Shib-lawskl Shib-lawskl brothois 'was In progress, a bailiff from Judge McKinley's court summoned Jailer Davies to court,, but three minutes before the bailiff's arrival, ar-rival, the Shlblauskis had been lmng-ed lmng-ed Davies refused to obey tho summons sum-mons of the superior court Instead, ! Chlof Deputy Peters telephoned to the Judge that two of the men had beon hanged and thnt the execution of tbo other two would proceed un- i ii 1 1 mil i ii in ! irr-niiiiiri-rrf LrT-ma I ! II II I I I I I B 1' --" 1HMI III Ml III I less a formal writ prevented. No writ was issued and Somraor-Hug Somraor-Hug and Schultz followed their companions com-panions on the gallows Representatives of the state's attorney's attor-ney's office resisted the attempt to stop the executions and told Judgo McKInley that the petition, alleging insanity, which, under the law, Is a bar to execution, wag presented only for a delay This was denied by" counsel for the condemned men and a wordy altercation occupied the mln- utes in which the four were being" prepared for the gallows Judgo McKinloy declined to permit tbo petition to be filed until it had been read The prosecutors Insisted that tho petition, which was signed by Itev. Raplnski, was not In accord ac-cord with the facts. While the executions of tho Guclzow Gucl-zow murderers wero taking place, Jcnnlng's counsel was arguing before be-fore Uniied Statos District Court Ji(W Landls on tho habeas corpus writ they asked jesterday. Judge Lantils denied the petition "" t.i nn ii v mn u i i it in . i i.n n n i inartm filed for Thomas Jennings and pr Jl arationB for tho fifth hanging 'weiVPH begun in tho jail. ! H Thomas Jennings, negro, the last iH of the five condemned men, was hing- IH ed at 12:15 p. m. I IH Asks Forgiveness tA Chicago, Feb. 15. Ewald Shiblav- H ski, one of tbo men who Is to be M hanged today for the murder ol Fred H Guclzow, wrote to the widow of his H victim last night asking forgiveness. 1 Tho letter reads4 H "I must dio tomorrow for the mur- M der of j our husband and the father H of your child. J wish to God I had H never done It. and I ask jou to for- H give mo, if you can for what I did, 1 "I had a fair trial. My lawyer did H what he could, and the assistant 1 state's attorney treated me fairly. M "1 am guilty and before my death H I ask your forgiveness for the great H wrong I did. God knows that if I could IH livo I would spend my 'hole life in jH trying to do for you .and your child B what I ought to do." I |