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Here is article about Charles Becker from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Becker Becker went to the electric chair in Sing Sing three years later, in 1915.

See query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9807E4D61630E233A... 'October 30, 1912, Wednesday Charles Becker, the ex-Police Lieutenant and convicted murderer of Herman Rosenthal, who will be sentenced to death this morning by Justice Goff, in the extraordinary term of the Supreme Court, where his trial ended last Thursday night, has spent his time since then in considering the names of many lawyers as possible successors to his present counsel, Messrs. John F. McIntyre, John W. Hart, Lloyd Stryker, and George W. Whiteside.' See also www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2405655750/ and www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2423488718/

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A Bain/LOC closeup photo portrait of Charles Becker:

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"Dago Frank" Cirofici (Cirocici, Carofici, Cirosici) was a petty criminal in New York City convicted of murdering Herman Rosenthal with his fellow assasins Harry Horowitz "Gyp the Blood", Louis Rosenberg (Rosenweig) "Lefty Louis", and "Whitey" Lewis (Frank Seidenshner) at 1 o'clock in the morning on July 16, 1912. Herman Rosenthal had threatened to "squeal" on Lieutenant Charles Becker (NYC Police) concerning his involvement in gambling if Becker didn't remove his "strong arm squad" of police after a raid was made in early April. Herman was in the process of telling his story when Becker hired the four men and developed the plot that led to Herman's execution in front of the Hotel Metropolis on 43rd Street. The four men were executed at Sing Sing in April 13, 1914 with "Dago Frank" being the first to die. Before his death he stated that he was five miles away when the murder as committed. All four men were taken to funeral homes on the East Side after their deaths. Information taken from articles in the Syracuse Herald from 1912-1914.

More Bain/LOC photos of Dago Frank's funeral:

buckeye616: thank you for the information about Cirofici. We will include some of it in the record for this image when we update. Thanks Wystan for the related images.

You scoundrel! law.jrank.org/pages/2780/Charles-Becker-Trials-1912-14.html And there are plenty of photographs relating to his trial, conviction and punishment here: www.flickr.com/search/?q=Becker&w=8623220@N02

The guilty verdict in Becker's original trial was overturned by an appeals court in 1913, but a retrial found him guilty again. He was the only policeman in U. S. history to die in the electric chair.

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